Potential Hazards at the Construction Workplace due to Temporary Structures

Scaffolds are types of temporary structures which contributes towards the accident occurences at the construction workplace. Thus, the root causes should be identified to avoid unpredicted events at the workplace. This study is to investige the level of awareness amongst the contractors due to scaffold's potential hazards whichlead to injuries and fatalities at the workplace. View from Project Manager, Safety and Health Officer and Site Engineer is been focussed by using structured questionnaire. The findings indicate that awareness level amongst these profesionalstowards this issue is high. Thus, by increasing level of awareness, it will decrease number of accidents. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies (cE-Bs), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia