11. Residental Construction Safety and Health: Homesafe Audit Results

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Gilkey
Keyword(s):  
Construction Safety ◽  
Safety And Health

Organizational assessment and development in construction safety and health

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantin Cigularov ◽  
Peter Y. Chen ◽  
David A. Hoffman ◽  
Donald Edward Eggerth
Keyword(s):  
Construction Safety ◽  
Organizational Assessment ◽  
Safety And Health

International benchmarking for performance improvement in construction safety and health

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 916-936 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lance W. Saunders ◽  
Andrew P McCoy ◽  
Brian M. Kleiner ◽  
Helen Lingard ◽  
Tracy Cooke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Construction Safety ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Worker Safety ◽  
Potential Hazard ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Project Lifecycle

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to advance knowledge on the advantages of integrating safety earlier in the construction project lifecycle. Design/methodology/approach – A case study approach is used to collect data from construction sites in the USA, which performs poorly in construction safety and health, and Australia (AU), which performs well in construction safety and health. Qualitative data are collected to determine how and when safety is considered in the project lifecycle in both countries, and then the results are benchmarked to determine the benefits of addressing safety earlier in the process. Findings – Data show that addressing a potential hazard earlier in the project lifecycle has performance benefits in terms of the level of hazard control. Research limitations/implications – The processes that are identified as possibly explaining the performance difference are just based on qualitative data from interviews. Targeted research addressing the relationship between these processes and safety outcomes is an opportunity for further research. Practical implications – The case study data are used to identify specific processes that are used in AU that might be adopted in the USA to improve performance by integrating safety earlier into the decision-making process. Social implications – This paper highlights the advantages of integrating safety as a decision factor early in the process. Worker safety is not just an issue in the construction industry, and thus the findings are applicable to all industries in which worker safety is an issue. Originality/value – This paper advances the safety in design literature by quantitatively supporting the link between when a hazard is addressed and performance. It also links the results to specific processes across countries, which advances the literature because most research in this area to data is within a single country.

Right-time vs real-time pro-active construction safety and health system architecture

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jochen Teizer
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Time Window ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Critical Time ◽  
Construction Safety ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
High Concern

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the critical time window for pro-active construction accident prevention and response. Large to small organisations throughout the entire construction supply chain continue to be challenged to adequately prevent accidents. Construction worker injuries and fatalities represent significant waste of resources. Although the five C’s (culture, competency, communication, controls and contractors) have been focusing on compliance, good practices and best-in-class strategies, even industry leaders have only marginal improvements in recorded safety statistics for many years. Design/methodology/approach Right-time vs real-time construction safety and health identifies three major focus areas to aid in the development of a strategic, as opposed to tactical, response. Occupational safety and health by design, real-time safety and health monitoring and alerts and education, training and feedback leveraging state-of-the-art technology provide meaningful predictive, quantitative and qualitative measures to identify, correlate and eliminate hazards before workers get injured or incidents cause collateral damage. Findings The current state and development of existing innovative initiatives in the occupational construction safety and health domain are identified. A framework for right-time vs real-time construction safety and health presents the specific focus on automated safety and health data gathering, analysis and reporting to achieve better safety performance. The developed roadmap for right-time vs real-time safety and health is finally tested in selected application scenarios of high concern in the construction industry. Originality/value A strategic roadmap to eliminate hazards and accidents through right-time vs real-time automation is presented that has practical as well as social implications on conducting a rigorous safety culture and climate in a construction business and its entire supply chain.

Management of construction Safety and Health Plans based on automated content analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 120 ◽  
pp. 103362 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Martínez-Rojas ◽  
Rubén Martín Antolín ◽  
Francisco Salguero-Caparrós ◽  
Juan Carlos Rubio-Romero
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Construction Safety ◽  
Health Plans ◽  
Automated Content Analysis ◽  
Safety And Health
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