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Open Journal of Civil Engineering, 2012, 2, 174-182 /10.4236/ojce.2012.23023 Published Online September 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ojce) Construction Safety and Occupational Health Education in Egypt, the EU, and US Firms Amal ElSafty , Adel ElSafty , Maged Malek 1 2 3 Department of Occupational Environmental Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt School of Engineering, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, USA 1 2 3 Construction Management Department, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, USA Email: amal_safty@, adel.el-safty@, mmalek@ Received June 29, 2012; revised July 30, 2012; accepted August 15, 2012 ABSTRACT The construction industry has been considered an accident prone industry. Alarming statistics indicate that the construc- tion industry accounts for 55,000 fatal injuries each year. That is because construction sites are often filled with poten- tial hazards that can lead to serious injury or death. Responsibility for these injuries may be attributed to a variety of individuals including owners, contractors or subcontractors, engineers, equipment manufacturers, and architects. This mandated a new safety culture to emerge resulting in a decline in the incidence rate of all recordable nonfatal injury and illness for construction workers. This study explores the safety culture encountered in two large construction companies in the USA and Egypt, over the last five years. Comparison of the results recorded in both companies was also con- ducted. The study also investigated the benefits of focusing on the occupational health in the construction field in Egypt and USA. In addition to the literature review, the research methodology used for this study was inspired by the Contex- tual Design (CD) Methodology. The study indicated the positive impact of implementing safety programs on signifi- cantly reducing the recordable injuries. It