IDENTIFICATION OF OCCURRENCE OF WORK RELATED HEALTH ISSUES AMONG THE CONSTRUCTION WORKERS IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

In construction industry the occurrence of work related health issues factors placed in major role in the performance of the construction workers. This paper examines the construction workers work related health issues in the construction projects. These studies were focused only the building sectors workers and their behaviors'. The structure questionnaire was developed using 5 point likert scale to rank the behaviors' of the construction workers. The questionnaire was distributed among the engineers to rate the opinion of their workers on their ongoing projects. In the questionnaire were consist of five major groups such as i) additional related factors, ii) stress and depression of workers, iii) psychological factors, iv) biological related diseases factors and v) chemical related diseases factors. The consequently the collected data were approached descriptive statistical analysis to rank the most critical health behaviour factors. The outcomes of study suggest various critical factors such as backache, consumption of tobacco and alcohol could affect the construction workers performance. Subsequently the major disease among the construction workers was diabetes and asthma in the projects. The majority of the stress level influenced by anxiety disorders in the construction workers. The construction workers psychologically affect due to overnight work in without rest in the projects. However, the biological and chemical related issues occurred in the project sites such as house mites, and skin irritations which affect the performance of the construction workers.