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Year:
2007

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Volume:
11

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Issue:
2

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Article:
6
Safety Science Monitor
Introduction

Liberalization of the economy of Uganda since 1990 has spurred development in a variety of sectors bringing with it an up swing in the Building and Construction Industry with a growth average of 5.7 percent per annum for the last ten years. The Construction Industry has continued to grow at an average rate of 8.8 percent per annum since 1995/96 well above the overall GDP annual growth rate for Uganda, coming next to agriculture in the economy. From the routine, specialized and investigative inspections carried out by the Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH), the industry has many small contractors, a number of medium sized contractors and a few big contractors, often foreign who also get into joint ventures or sub contract a number of medium and small sized contractors on the big projects they do under take. 70%of all construction is informal with many individual developers directly under taking complex construction projects employing mostly unskilled labour to include even children who in many cases are often ignorant, negligent and careless, resulting into numerous hazards claiming a lion’s share of many disabling and fatal occurrences.

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Author

MUKASA WILLIAM SENYONJO

Department of Occupational Safety and Health, P. O. Box 227 Kampala, Uganda

MITI RONALDLEY

Department of Occupational Safety and Health, P. O. Box 227 Kampala, Uganda

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