Issues engulfed Saudi Arabia construction workers

4th International Conference on Civil and Environmental Engineering for Sustainability

地球科学;生态环境科学;经济学

Al-Emad, N.H.^1 ; Rahman, I.A.^1

Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor Darul Takzim

86400, Malaysia^1

关键词: Communication barriers;    Construction leaders;    Construction projects;    Construction workers;    Exploratory studies;    Government regulation;    Semi-structured;    Senior management;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/140/1/012097/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/140/1/012097

学科分类：环境科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

This paper presents an exploratory study conducted in Makkah city to uncover issues faced by construction workers from the construction leaders' perspective. Eleven construction leaders/experts were interviewed to unleash their experiences on handling the foreign workers working in Makkah construction projects. Most of the experts are senior management staffs with more than 10 years' working experience in Saudi Arabia construction industry. The interviews were carried out in semi structured mode where all the information was captured manually and also electronically. The identified issues were sorted based on its commonality into 10 clusters. Hence in each cluster, the numbers of issue considered by the experts are reflecting the importance of that particular cluster. The result of the clusters according to the number of issues mentioned by the experts are safety issues, restricted government regulation, demotivated issues, lack of quality workers, poor living quality, communication barriers, adaption issues, poor attitudes, lack of logistical arrangements and lack of education. With these identified issues it will assist the construction players in the construction industry of Saudi Arabia in dealing with their workers.