The most used indicators related to occupational safety are indicators that generally refer to accidents that have occurred, they are lagging indicators, because the measures that they offer can no longer avoid the accident that has already happened.
This article presents a tool based on the use of leading indicators that, by contrasting them with certain lagging indicators, allows the predictive evaluation of the possibility of occurrence of work accidents in the construction sites in which it is applied.
This paper explains the methodology followed for the design of the predictive tool and discusses it applicability. The obtained results lead to establish significant statistics correlations between some of the leading indicators formulated in the survey and accident data occurred in each case (lagging indicators), and therefore the predictive tool of work accidents in the construction works can be validated. The predictive capacity get 85.0% for minor accidents and 82.8% for major accidents.
Keywords: crisis, accident rate, construction, accident
The COVID-19 crisis has had devastating effects in Spain. One could say that this grave situation has been provoked by its flawed management, considering the harsh reality evidenced by the official figures (total deaths, infections, job losses and other economic data, etc.). Looking at the COVID-19 pandemic on a global scale (Figure 1), it is clear that a wide spectrum of very different actions is required depending on each specific location, and that alternative operation frameworks are needed. If one were to analyse the COVID-19 crisis as a Project, implementing the corresponding Project Management methodologies, many measures would be found that, if applied correctly, would reduce its adverse effects. One of the usual techniques of these methodologies are the lessons learned. This article outlines lessons learned in each of the ten areas of project management knowledge, following the description of any management errors related to each of them. All of this, with the intention of improving crisis management in the future.
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