2. Safety problems in construction
Construction industry recorded the highest accident rate
in the whole industry according to the statistics of Hong
Kong’s Labour Department on industrial accidents and
accident rates in major industries (see Table 1). The construction
accident rates in Hong Kong is about 68.1 per
1000 workers were also usually much higher than most of
the neighboring countries, such as Singapore only with
about 9.4 per 100,000 workers (Ling et al., 2009).
Although there is a distinct improvement on the safety
performance, the local construction industry is now still
recording an extremely high accident rates when comparing
to other local industries, and construction industry of
other countries. There are some major reasons for the high
accident rates in Hong Kong (The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University, 2003):