Safety Aspects in Bridge Construction, Extensive use of Migrated Labour and Language Barriers

Safety Aspects in Bridge Construction, Extensive use of Migrated Labour and Language Barriers

Raman Kajla

Raman Kajla, Civil Engineering Al-Falah University Faridabad Haryana (India )

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Abstract - Indian construction industry is growing on very fast pace particularly in past few Decades. Construction is the second largest economic activity in India after agriculture. Indian construction is one of most unorganized sector which employ 51 million workers and expected to grow in double digits at 10.7 percent in FY22 in rebound from 8.6 percent last year. In 2021the India construction market size was $609.6 billion and it is projected to grow more than 6% during the period 2023 to 2026. Growth in the forecast period will be supported by a strong pipeline of infrastructure projects across various sectors. The work accident in Bridge construction projects are Inevitable . So there are always news  news about work accidents in the projects whole year. While the construction of bridges is to carried out actively by the government. The Occupational Safety and health administration (OSHA) further show that four different main causes of accidents are fall from Height , Struck by object, Electrocution, Caught in or Between .The poor safety in execution results in fatal accidents at site and leads to lose of life , loss of time and lose of equipment’s. The developed Countries has invented Safety measures and technique to minimize or eliminate delays at construction projects. Every year 145 million labours of Indian rural region migrate  to cities in search of work. Migrants who move back and forth undertaking the work in construction, manufacturing, services, and farm sector. The list of out-migration regions such as West Bengal Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand have expanded and it include states such Rajasthan, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh. The 2011 Census Show the status of migration in India . India had 45.6 crore migrants in 2011 (38% of the population) compared to 31.5 crore migrants in 2001 (31% of the population. The  population grew by 18%, Between 2001 and 2011 in this period  the number of migrants increased by 45%.  In 2011, 99% of total migration was internal and immigrants  comprised 1%. India is full of diversity in land, religion, language, clothes, food, climate etc. All this make India a unique and diverse nation . This diversity can be seen in construction also , In Bridge Construction We have Seen most of the labours  Comes from different background in case of culture ,traditions and languages. The language is very important part of human life and all species have their ways of communication, humans are the only ones that have mastered cognitive language communication. We can share our ideas, thoughts, and feelings with others only due to communication . It has the power to build societies and to destroy the society . Misunderstandings, conflict, frustration, violence, and wasting time, can be caused by language Barriers .The study focuses on construction accident caused due to  Language Barriers in workers and analysis the reasons . This study provides a model to identified labours/ Workers with such language barriers problems in initial stage of joining of workers and propose specific training for those labours.