Explaining the Causes of Construction Accidents and Recommended Solutions

Site accidents in construction industry are caused by various reasons. This paper specially explains the causes of high accident rate in Chong Qing´s construction industry, and indicates that there are two major problems contributing to the high construction accident rate, which include problems of management and problems of people. In addition, this paper emphasizes that the four major parties including the government, clients, contractors and individual site staff should take effective measures to reduce the numbers of site accidents. The author believes that the objective to improve safety performance on construction site must be realized through corporate effort of every concerned party.