Assessment of Construction Hauling Process Accidents and Causes within Tertiary Institutions in Rivers State, Nigeria

This study assessed the construction hauling process accident within Tertiary Institution in Rivers State. The specific objectives were to identify the types of hauling process accidents, their causes and challenges in various construction sites within selected Tertiary Institutions in Rivers State. The cross-sectional survey design was adopted for the study. The population for this study comprised male and female within the age of 18 to 60 years above that are working at the various construction sites in the selected four Tertiary Institutions in Rivers State. Using a simple random sampling technique, a total of 400 copies of questionnaire were administered out of which 385 were retrieved and used for analysis. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used for the analysis. Descriptive statistics involved the use of frequencies and percentages to express the responses from the questionnaire, while the hypotheses were tested using the Spearman Rank Order Correlation analysis to show the influence of the independent variable on the dependent variable. Findings revealed that 66.2% indicated that manual handling caused accidents at construction sites in the study area. While 66.5% specifically indicated that electric shock at the construction sites is one of the main causes of accident in constructions sites, 42.1% agreed that defective equipment was the another important causes of accident at constructions sites. Thus, the study recommends that risk and safety experts should be contacted to assist in implementing some of the mitigation and personal protective equipment policy as measures to curb incessant accidents at the various construction sites within the tertiary institution in Rivers State.