Construction public client health and safety culture in Botswana : a pilot study.

This paper presents the preliminary findings of an exploratory pilot study into the health and safety culture of a public sector client in Botswana with a view to identifying aspects to be included in a larger broad-based national survey

A pilot study in Botswana's construction industry on designers' will and capacity to design for health and safety.

Designer's role on health and safety (H&S) performance improvement is a subject that has received much attention than any other aspect relative to the designer. However, much research has been on the incorporation of H&S in designs and how designers influence H&S. There is little research on the designer's will and capacity to contribute to H&S performance improvement especially in Southern Africa and Botswana in particular. This paper seeks therefore to highlight this aspect as a way of addressing one of the barriers to H&S performance improvement. The purpose of this paper is to present findings of a small pilot study conducted among construction designers to establish their will or motivation and capacity to contribute to construction H&S in Botswana. A questionnaire survey was conducted among construction designers to establish willingness and capacity to incorporate H&S in their designs. Findings on the will to contribute to H&S, relate to designers incorporating H&S in their designs, external influence to consider H&S and mandate from the client to consider H&S are presented. Designers' capacity relate to education and training and their experience on matters relating to H&S. The pilot study indicates an inadequate level of will and capacity for designers to consider H&S in their designs. A better H&S performance improvement can only be achieved with the designer's active participation. Results from the survey on designers' will and capacity highlight the importance of considering this aspect of designers. Designers' will and capacity is inadequate and it shows in their inconsideration of H&S in current designs. A proposal is made to look at ways to improve designers' capacity as well as ways to motivate them to consider H&S

Designer's contribution to construction health and safety (H&S) - a case study of a public works project

Abstract: This paper presents findings from a study conducted on a public works’ construction project in Botswana to establish the contribution of designers (consultants) to construction health and safety (H&S

Client attitude to health and safety (H&S) - a report on contractor's perceptions

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present findings of a preliminary survey on Contractors’ perceptions of clients, attitude relative to health and safety (H&S) implementation in Botswana’s construction industry

A pilot study on public clients' contribution to construction workers' health and safety in Botswana

Abstract: This paper presents findings from a pilot study conducted in two major construction public client organisations in Botswana on their contribution to construction workers’ health and safety

A pilot study on public clients' contribution to construction workers' health and safety in Botswana

Abstract: This paper presents findings from a pilot study conducted in two major construction public client organisations in Botswana on their contribution to construction workers’ health and safety

Impact significance of construction clients’ culture on contractors’ health and safety (H&S) culture- an exploratory Delphi study

Contractors’ top management has been identified in many studies to be of great importance to H&S performance and continual improvement. Therefore developing strategies that support and motivate contractor top management, implement H&S elements would ensure a gradual and sustained improvement of H&S in the construction industry. This way construction workers’ H&S can be assured and in so doing achieve sustainability in the industry through skills preservation. The paper reports on an analysis of impact significance of clients on contractors. It will underscore the point that has been made before using different methodologies that client H&S culture is critical to contractors’ H&S culture because it is crucial to H&S performanc

Patterns, Causes and Consequences of Regional Variation in the Ecology and Life History of a Reef Fish

Many species vary in their ecology across their geographic ranges in response to gradients in environmental conditions. Such variation, which can influence life history traits and subsequent demography of populations, usually occurs over large spatial scales. However, describing and understanding the causes of such variation is difficult precisely because it occurs over such large spatial scales. In this study, we document spatial variation in the ecology of a common reef fish, Stegastes beebei, in the Gala´pagos Islands and test a number of potential causal mechanisms. The pattern resembles that seen in latitudinal variation: individuals are larger, occur in higher densities, and live longer in the coldest region of the islands than those in the warmest region. However, in this system, demography varies among regional populations separated bytemperature, despite differences in the gross magnitude and timing of reproduction in different regions. A model of reproductive output suggests that fish in the warmest region are allocating a greater proportion of available energy to reproduction, resulting in apparent regional life history tradeoffs. Our data suggest that regional demographic differences in S. beebei may be driven by a combination of variation in food availability and an environmentally mediated life history tradeoff