Need of Introducing Safety Curriculum in School Education Under Skill Development Scheme is Necessity for Future Generation

Abstract

Workplace hazard associated in construction industry are more in compared to other due to first changing work environment. The construction industry is the 2nd highest employment category after agriculture sector in India. All Category of people in terms of education starting from highly qualified person to illiterate everyone gets an opportunity to work in the industry accordingly to their skill. The organizations working in the industry are in the process of implementing safety best practices into the system to uplift the safety culture.

In construction industry employees gets very short time to customize them with the environment and perform the work. On first days very beginning of work at site the employee must work with the situational hazards associated in the surrounding, either he has an awareness about the basic safety requirements of construction work or not. While working in the construction site employees do unsafe actions either knowingly or unknowingly: it is a matter of discussions. To understand the fact about the causes of unsafe work at project site, a survey was conducted among the construction workers at different project of various sectors by an in-depth interview process. The survey questionnaires were made based on the various aspects associated with socioeconomic factors of construction industry. Further the field data collected has been analysed to understand the reason of unsafe actions at worksite. This paper emphasis on one of the important aspects in the system that is employee’s education. The efforts have been made to identify the implication of the education aspect in the work environment. Accordingly, the recommendations were made to bring improvement in system to improving employee’s knowledge on safety by introducing safety education at primary school level.