This study assessed the safety on industrial construction projects in Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. To assess the physical aspects of safety walkthrough inspections using a checklist were carried out. To address the safety climate and to know the attitude towards safety, questionnaires were developed and used. Safety performance level index (SPLI) for all industries was calculated. For support industries this value varies greatly and the average was 84.0. For secondary group of industries, the SPLI values are mostly consistent, with one exception and the average value was 81.25. The SPLI values for primary industries were also consistent with the average value being 91.48.; Safety level score (SLS) for all industries were calculated and it was found that these values in primary group are high, the average being 0.80 on a scale of 1.0. The SLS values vary greatly in secondary group of industries, the average being 0.61. The SLS values in support industry group were low when compared to primary and secondary and the average was 0.47. With the safety level scores for all industries it could be concluded that, the safety level varies with the size of the industry. The correlation coefficient between the performance level (safety system) and the safety level (physical aspects) for all the industries were calculated and it was concluded that there is no significant association between the performance level and safety level.
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