ABSTRACT
The building industry is one of the important industrial sectors of a country; however, the safety level for the building industry of various countries in the world is all lower than the average safety level for the industrial sectors of the country. In 2011, only 8% of the labor force in the United States was engaged in the building industry, but among the national industrial accidents of the year, the fatal accidents and the disability accidents from the building projects were as high as 18% and 12% respectively; in 2011, the casualty accidents from the building projects accounted for 28.8% of those from all the industrial sectors; in the same year, the accident death toll of per one hundred thousand people was about 30; however, the occurrence rate of the building project’s safety accidents in Hong Kong was unexpectedly up to 20 times of that in Japan.
