Engineering Academic Programs Feedback

1 Nature and Extent of Construction Health and Safety Coverage in the Curriculum 

While 13 % of the responding programs indicated that no coverage of construction health and safety is provided at all, 33 % of the respondents confirmed offering one course to fully or partially cover construction health and safety topics, as shown in Fig. 11.12. Also, 20 % of the responses implied that such coverage is provided by two or three courses. Rarely this coverage is provided by four courses as evident in the 13% response presented in Fig. 11.12. 

Number of Courses Covering Construction Health and Safety 

Nine basic construction health and safety topics are identified in the survey, namely legislations/regulations (Tl) safety management (T2) risk identification (T3) safe practices and risk reduction (T4) hazard assessment (T5) hazard control and prevention (T6) mandatory procedures, training, records, and maintenance (T7) compliance, inspection, and penalties (T8) and incorporation of construction-safety-in-design courses (T9). The extent of coverage of these topics is presented in Fig. 11.14. It can be seen that all respondents indicated that topics Tl and T7 represent no more than 20% of the covered constraction health and safety topics, while about 74% of the responses indicated that T2 and T4 represent no more than 20% of the covered topics. However, 13 % of the responses indicated that T2 and 

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