Exploring the link between early constructor involvement in project decision-making and the efficacy of health and safety risk control

Lingard, Helen; Pirzadeh, Payam; Blismas, Nick; Wakefield, Ron; Kleiner, Brian M.

doi:10.1080/01446193.2014.911931

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“…For example, there was evidence to suggest that investigators within the participating organizations are presently prompted to focus on factors surrounding the immediate context of the incident and then individual error. This finding is consistent with previous research surrounding construction accident causation (e.g., Lingard, Pirzadeh, Blismas, Wakefield, & Kleiner, ; Manu et al., ; Wang et al., ) that reinforces the existing focus on mid‐ to lower‐level actors and factors (e.g., company, management, and staff levels). Overall, the finding that construction accident investigations focus on mid to lower levels of the RMF, although not surprising given the limitations of the embedded Swiss cheese (Reason, 1997) approach to accident causation within construction (Hopkins, ; Woolley et al., under review), highlights the need to move beyond the individual and the organization.…”

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Moving beyond the organizational ceiling: Do construction accident investigations align with systems thinking?

Woolley

Goode

Salmon

2018

Hum Ftrs & Erg Mfg Svc

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Serious accidents within the construction industry continue to represent an unacceptable global problem. The aim of this study was to consider the types of actors, factors, and relationships that are identified in construction investigations in a sample of Australian organizations. Based on a thematic analysis approach, we examined the actors, contributory factors, and corrective actions identified within 100 construction accident investigation reports. The extent to which these aligned with the principles of contemporary accident causation theory and the benefits associated with adopting a system-wide approach were then assessed. Overall, the results demonstrate that accident analysis in construction has not moved beyond a human error focus and does not presently identify multiple actors and contributory factors or the interactions between them.The findings of the study offer important implications for the industry and highlight the opportunity for the adoption of systems theory-based approaches to construction accident investigation and analysis.

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Moving beyond the organizational ceiling: Do construction accident investigations align with systems thinking?

Woolley

Goode

Salmon

2018

Hum Ftrs & Erg Mfg Svc

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“…For example, safety-related communications are vital to include every individual in a construction crew to ensure strong safety performance [ 79 , 80 ]. It is better that the communication is involved in pre-construction decision-making [ 81 ]. Kulkarni also indicated that the workforce in the construction sector was the most vulnerable because employment was permanently temporary, the employer and employee relationship was very fragile and most of the time short-lived and the work had inherent risk to life and limb due to lack of safety, health and welfare facilities, coupled with uncertain working hours [ 82 ].…”

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Evaluating the Impacts of Health, Social Network and Capital on Craft Efficiency and Productivity: A Case Study of Construction Workers in China

Yuan

Miao

et al. 2018

IJERPH

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The construction industry has been recognized, for many years, as among those having a high likelihood of accidents, injuries and occupational illnesses. Such risks of construction workers can lead to low productivity and social problems. As a result, construction workers’ well-being should be highly addressed to improve construction workers’ efficiency and productivity. Meanwhile, the social support from a social network and capital (SNC) of construction workers has been considered as an effective approach to promote construction workers’ physical and mental health (P&M health), as well as their work efficiency and productivity. Based on a comprehensive literature review, a conceptual model, which aims to improve construction workers’ efficiency and productivity from the perspective of health and SNC, was proposed. A questionnaire survey was conducted to investigate the construction workers’ health, SNC and work efficiency and productivity in Nanjing, China. A structural equation model (SEM) was employed to test the three hypothetical relationships among construction workers’ P&M health, SNC and work efficiency and productivity. The results indicated that the direct impacts from construction workers’ P&M health on work efficiency and productivity were more significant than that from the SNC. In addition, the construction workers’ social capital and the network can indirectly influence the work efficiency and productivity by affecting the construction workers’ P&M health. Therefore, strategies for enhancing construction workers’ efficiency and productivity were proposed. Furthermore, many useable suggestions can be drawn from the research findings from the perspective of a government. The identified indicators and relationships would contribute to the construction work efficiency and productivity assessment and health management from the perspective of the construction workers.

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“…Atkinson and Westall (2010) also note that, even in more integrated projects utilising a design and construction delivery approach, the design of the product to be constructed is often outsourced to a specialist team of professional designers and positive OH&S outcomes are not guaranteed. Lingard et al (2014) examined the quality of OH&S risk control outcomes associated with decisions made during the design stage of construction projects and found evidence that more effective technological forms of risk control (e.g. elimination, substitution and engineering controls) were more likely to be implemented when people with construction process knowledge were involved in decision-making.…”

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Increasing Occupational Health and Safety in Workplaces

Burke¹,

Richardsen²

2019

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Construction work is inherently dangerous, combining a constantly changing work environment with work at height, continuous movements of people, materials and vehicles, the use of powerdriven machinery, plant and equipment and exposures to wide range of hazardous substances. Occupational health and safety (OH&S) risks experienced by construction workers are many and varied and construction is often singled out by legislators and policy-makers as an industry deserving special treatment in terms of the prevention of work-related deaths, injuries or illnesses. The types of incidents and mechanisms of injury impacting construction workers are similar the world over, whether these related to low frequency-high impact or high frequency-low impact injury outcomes. Falling from height, being struck by falling or mobile objects, being trapped or crushed buy collapsing structures or coming into contact with electricity are the most common incident types associated with fatal or serious injury. While the occurrence of slips, trips and falls (on the same level) and musculoskeletal problems linked to manual handling are frequently cited in non-fatal injury reports. Traditionally, a great deal of focus has been placed on the understanding and addressing the causes of 'immediate effect' safety incidents. Historically, occupational health risks have received less attention than safety risks. This is despite the fact that deaths arising from work-related illness are estimated to far outweigh injury-related deaths. For example, on average over 250 Australian workers die from an injury sustained at work each year, yet it is estimated that over 2,000 workers die from a work-related illness each year (Safe Work Australia, 2012). This is consistent with UK estimates that construction workers are at least 100 times more likely to die from a disease caused or made worse by their work as they are from a work-related injury (IOSH, 2015).

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Exploring the link between early constructor involvement in project decision-making and the efficacy of health and safety risk control

Abstract: Exploring the link between early constructor involvement in project decision-making and the efficacy of health and safety risk control

Cited by 44 publications

References 31 publications

Moving beyond the organizational ceiling: Do construction accident investigations align with systems thinking?

Moving beyond the organizational ceiling: Do construction accident investigations align with systems thinking?

Evaluating the Impacts of Health, Social Network and Capital on Craft Efficiency and Productivity: A Case Study of Construction Workers in China

Increasing Occupational Health and Safety in Workplaces

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