Malaysia construction industry have played a great role in the growth of the country’s economy over the years. However, there have been incidents of increasing injuries as a result of being exposed to accidents within the industry. Some studies in the construction field have shown that safety performance has been decreasing. Most of the construction activities carried out by the construction companies has been in dangerous situations thereby exposing the workers to minor and major injuries which may sometimes lead to death. As a result, the organizations may sometimes change the goals of the projects because of the accident, thus affecting the organization’s level of advancement in the industry. To address the aforementioned issue, this paper aims to identified the significant relationship between risk factors and types of accident occurred during construction high-rise building project. Around 114 respondence from construction companies that registered under the CIDB Malaysia among Penang state, Malaysia construction companies were surveyed. PLS-SEM technique was used in this research to assess both the measurement and structural models. The results showed that management, personal and job safety risk factors categories played a significant positive relationship with types of accident.
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