Vol-2 Issue-3 2016 IJARIIE-ISSN(O)-2395-4396 2220 www.ijariie.com 2442 EVALUATION OF THE SAFETY PERFORMANCE LEVEL OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN GUJARAT Pranav Patel 1 , Dr. Rajiv Bhatt 2 , Dr. Jayeshkumar Pitroda 3 1 Student of Final Year, M.E. (Construction Engineering & Management), B.V.M. Engineering College, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India 2 Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Dept., B.V.M. Engineering College, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India 3 Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Dept., B.V.M. Engineering College, New Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India ABSTRACT In Gujarat, the growth of construction industry development is comparatively higher than any other industries. But the safety level of construction industry is quite lower than any other industries. As the construction industry is highly labor intensive, employees around 10 million people and the rate of workplace fatal accidents in construction sector is four to five times than that of the manufacturing sector so the issue of safety assumes importance. Construction project sites are often full with probable hazards that lead towards serious injury or death. Occupational safety in the construction industry is very poor in developing countries. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the safety performance level of construction projects. For this a comprehensive literature from concerning various literatures was deployed to find the factors affecting on project performance. The founded factors was categorized in eight categorized like self-protection, housekeeping, scaffolding, access to height, organizational, first aid, fire protection and general category. Questionnaire survey was held in three cities of Gujarat and total 197 questionnaire was distributed to various project stakeholders like developer, contractor and project managers. Out of the total distributed questionnaire 153 questionnaire was useful. During the site visits it was noticed that due to awareness, lack of safety training, lack of safety training, lack of safety promotion, and lack of documented and organized safety management systems the performance level is very lower then developed countries a project level. The outcome of questionnaire survey and site visits describes that most of projects running between extremely unsafe to unsafe level. Keyword : - Construction Safety, Developing countries, Safety Performance, Performance Index 1. INTRODUCTION Today construction industry is become integral part of GDP of any developing or developed country. Construction industry is important both economically and socially. The construction industry, at the same time also recognized to be the most hazardous and dangerous. (Suazo and Jaselskis, 1993). [10] Huang and Hinze mentioned in their studies that although dramatic improvements have taken place in recent decades, the safety records in construction industry continues to be one of the poorest. [5]. the construction industry is regarded as a dangerous industry due to its characteristics; decentralization and mobility. Decentralization means the worker of construction industry separated by site by site and no central authority for them. Though protocols and plans available, they still have facing specific problems regarding their safety and other rights. Mobility means that employees in construction industry move aside the different companies, sites and positions more frequently than traditional industries. Due to above two features, while the promotion of safety management and working condition is achieved in a manner that is used by several industries to consciously improve safety performance, they are inadequate in