Crane accidents in construction site from contractors perspective

Moving large heavy loads is crucial to today's construction industries. Heavy material, machineries and construction components are among the heavy loads that required crane to lift. Unfortunately, there are cases of crane accidents in the construction site that can cause injuries or even fatal accidents towards the workers. Public safety and properties are among the victim of the crane accidents due to the huge impact of the crane accidents. The aim of this research is to look for the causes of the crane accidents based on the previous cases. The objectives are to give recommendations on how to eliminate the crane accidents based on the causes stated. In pursuit to achieve the objective, the sampling method that is implement for this research is purposive sampling and there were 519 G7 contractors in Pulau Pinang that were registered under Construction Industry Development Board, 140 questionnaires are distributed to G7 contractors in Pulau Pinang. All the data has been analysed by using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software.