Innovative management for Occupational Safety and Health: A tower engineering project

Abstract

Risk is very attached to every activity. Potential risks also occur in antenna installation projects at telecommunications company vendors, which create hazardous work. The aim of the research is to identify the causes of accidents at the Base Transceiver Station (BTS) tower and make recommendations for ways to reduce the accident rate for tower workers by using Failure Mode Effect and Analysis (FMEA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) method. The results based on the FMEA method used indicate that: the highest work accident rate is obtained from being hit by heavy material (RPN = 128), with a percentage of 31%. Whereas in the FTA method, the most fundamental factor in the occurrence of material overlap work accidents is technical factors where the antenna installation is not perfect, the tools used are not based on standards, supported by the results of data verification by the internal control team which found 6% of engineers do not have proper helmets. Improvements were made by eliminating the existing failure modes, namely by equipping PPE for workers who do not yet have PPE and training certificates to work at tower heights.