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    Influence of Worker's Attitude and Communication Skill towards Safety Performance in Construction Site
    ( 2020-06-10)
    Norrazman Zaiha Zainol
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    Muhammad Munsif Ahmad
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    Zawin Najah Zailani
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    Mohd Badrul Hisyam Ab Manaf
    The construction site is one of the most hazardous working places with numerous sources of hazards and potentially high risk to deals with. Typically, the main sources of hazards are unsafe condition and unsafe act by the human. Eventually, both sources related to human errors which potentially have an effect on the performance of the site. To reveals the underlying, this study aims to determine the influential factors that governed the success of safety performance of a construction site. The study involved a self-administered three-part questionnaire among the construction personnel. Part A measures the workers' attitude and safety performance while Part B on communication skills. The respondents randomly selected from construction sites range from school building and infrastructure renovation. The sample size was 113. From the survey, it was found that the most influential factor was the worker's attitude and followed closely by communication skills. Suggestion and recommendations on equipment design and improved work practices and procedures to improve efficiency and productivity of construction workers were proposed. Management was urged to get their workers better informed about safety matters.
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    The influence of integrated management system (IMS) on innovation performance in Malaysia construction industry
    Globally, the construction industry has become a complicated, critical, and exponentially developed leads to increase difficulties and required more innovative and better management system. This leads the organization to find a better solution to their management approach. The international standards in quality, environment, safety, security, supply chain, etc. have been combined to form a comprehensive system called integrated management system (IMS). By implementing a management system standard, organizations can benefit from global management experience and good practice, but the issues arise on the success factors and how they affect the performance of the company. There had been plenty of researches son IMS elsewhere, but this research was focusing on the construction industry in Malaysia in term of innovation performance. The approach is quantitative by disseminating questionnaire to the construction players in the northern region of Peninsular of Malaysia. The IMS's attributes, i.e. integration of IMS and integrated audits, are found to have positive relationship toward the innovation performance of an organization. The model moderately explained 52.8% proven that the attributes should be the focal point of the organization to increase their success factors in boosting their performance, especially in its innovation.
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    APPLICATION OF NATURAL FIBER FOR SHORT TERM STABILIZATION OF MARINE CLAY SLOPE
    ( 2020-01-01)
    Ahmad M.M.
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    Zainol N.Z.
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    Faisal A.
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    Existence of marine clay in civil engineering field leading to further investigation on the properties as well as the method of stabilization. The aim of this study is to investigate the shear strength parameter of marine clay slope stabilized with kenaf fiber. Laboratory testing has been conducted to determine the marine clay and stabilized marine clay properties and its characteristic by using soil classification of particle size distribution, specific gravity, Atterberg limit and unconfined compression test. The result shows that the shear strength of marine clay reinforced with kenaf fiber is improved by increasing the percentage of kenaf fiber mixed into marine clay soil. The safety factor obtained from slope stability analysis shows that addition of kenaf fiber to the marine clay soil improves the marine clay slope stability. By adding 5% and 10% of kenaf fiber improves safety factor to more than 1.2 as required for most of temporary slope construction.
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