ABSTRACT
In order to limit the occupational hazards at an
acceptable level, it is a fact that certain costs will
be incurred. Among the managers in construction
projects the famous “iron triangle” namely “time-
cost-quality” and the health and safety issues in
production are in general considered to be con-
tradictory to each other. Many managers consider
health and safety as an indirect cost, namely over-
head cost. Thus it is assumed as additional cost
to production and as an item causing increase at
site production costs. Among other behavioural
reasons, this can be considered as one of the main
explanations of the high ratio of accidents at
Turkish construction sites.
