Construction safety issues related to telecommunication industry

Abstract

Construction is one of the booming industries in the present context. With the rapid development in past couple of decades, it has become one of the driving industries of most the economies in the world. Telecommunication industry, being one of the major branches in construction, too has erupted within this period due to the excessive use of mobile phones. It has been estimated that more than 80% of Sri Lankans use them: when it comes to countries like China and USA, tins percentage has become more than 90%. However, mostly due to the time constraints, safety aspect which is paid the least attention, particularly in telecommunication industry. Hence, there are a number of fatalities and severe injuries recorded in this arena. Even though that there are several legislations imposed to minimize these, it is observed that there's hardly any proper monitoring scheme to implement them. In this study, the safety issues related to telecommunication industry are identified by means of a questionnaire survey. The survey is carried out covering all the stakeholders; telecommunication companies, tower contractors, neighbouring communities and experts in the field and the key issues and mitigation techniques are recognized with respective to each perspective' inally, a set of recommendations are made to mitigate the safety issues related to telecommunication industry.