Fuzzy inference model for assessing occupational risks in construction sites

Debnath, Joy; Biswas, Animesh; Sivan, P.P.; Sen, Krishna Nirmalya; Sahu, Subhashis

doi:10.1016/j.ergon.2016.08.004

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“…Thus, even with financial and resource related challenges the organization has been trying to take up the opportunities in implementing OSH and has been successful to some extent. Debnath et al [41], Jerie et al [59] Noweir et al [53] and Siziya et al [60] concludes with similar findings that in industries where the implementation of OSH is juvenile they face financial and implementation technique related challenges and achieving positive attitudes takes time. However, on the perspectives of the employees, coaching on OSH had helped the organization in increasing the standards, lowered the accidents and risks, lowered the extensive financial loss and also improved employee performance.…”

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confidence: 52%

“…Assessing job risks is one way of determining the potential risks that may appear or have occurred in the past. For example if a case industry is construction sites, the risks may be falling down, electrocution, severe injuries from cutting and breaking of bones and sometime may even lead to severe health injuries and death [41]. Hence assessing such risks and hazards, taking preventive measures by both the authorities and the employees is very important.…”

Section: Job Risks and Pressurementioning

confidence: 99%

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Determining the Importance of Coaching Methods in Workplace Health and Safety

Son¹,

Albertyn²,

Gerber³

2017

J Ergonomics

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The main objective of the study is to determine the effect and importance of coaching on developing an environment of occupational safety and risks in a workplace. Workplace safety and health constitutes reducing the haphazard arising from one's occupation by implementing safety rules and policies for employees of an organization. Here a qualitative research was conducted to understand various aspect of occupational safety and health (OSH) and the role of coaching. Interview results implicated that coaching of senior employees in the case organization had helped in passing on knowledge, safety management, improved health conditions, reduced accidents and improving the financial expenditures. Thereby it was implicated that coaching on OSH has helped positively in reducing occupational hazards and risks.

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confidence: 52%

Section: Job Risks and Pressurementioning

confidence: 99%

Determining the Importance of Coaching Methods in Workplace Health and Safety

Son¹,

Albertyn²,

Gerber³

2017

J Ergonomics

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“…Fuzzy rule-based systems have a clear logic; they are easy to understand; and they are robust in the sense that they react smoothly through the gradual transition of the states of the fuzzy variables in the rules. There are numerous applications of fuzzy rule-based systems in construction (Amiri, Ardeshir, & Zarandi, 2017;Aydin & Kisi, 2015;Debnath, Biswas, Sivan, Sen, & Sahu, 2016;Khamesi, Torabi, Mirzaei-Nasirabad, & Ghadiri, 2015;Kim, H., Kim, K., & Kim, H., 2016;Marsh & Fayek, 2010;Tsehayae & Fayek, 2016).…”

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Fuzzy Hybrid Computing in Construction Engineering and Management

2018

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“…In order to support construction companies with their responsibilities to reduce occupational safety risks, Pinto (2014) presented the newly-developed fuzzy assessment model. Due to the incompletion of the data associated with the reportable accidents, Debnath et al (2016) fostered a safety risk assessment approach, considering the accidents happened to different parts of body, the associated safety measures, and the costs associated with the provision of those measurements.…”

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Assessing Construction Labours’ Safety Level: A Fuzzy McDm Approach

Mohandes

Sadeghi

Mahdiyar

et al. 2020

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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Risk decision matrix has widely been favoured by the researchers in the area of construction safety risk assessment. Although it provides the construction safety professionals with the final illustration of the risks magnitude, it suffers from major shortcomings, including inability to considering the importance of probability and severity, impaired analysis resulting from the use of raw numbers for ratings, and the limited range of classifications for assessing the risks. All these shortages give an impaired insight to the concerned parties, deteriorating the involved workers' safety. As such, this paper aims to develop a novel Risk Assessment Model (RAM) through the integration of the Fuzzy Best Worst Method (FBWM) with the Interval-Valued Fuzzy Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (IVFTOPSIS). Based on the application of RAM to a real-life case study, it was observed that the developed RAM contributes to the body of construction safety risk assessment in five unique ways: (1) computing the importance of the two risk parameters (i.e. probability and severity) using fuzzy-reference-based comparisons, (2) obviating the needs for having statistical data, (3) prioritizing the identified risks using the combination of interval-valued triangular fuzzy numbers with TOPSIS, (4) providing the safety analysts with wider ranges of classifications for conducting risk assessment, and (5) providing the safety professionals with appropriate evaluation strategies for controlling the analysed risks. The developed model in the study can be applied to any projects, giving a conclusive plan to the concerned safety professionals for adopting the further prudent mitigation measurements.

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Fuzzy inference model for assessing occupational risks in construction sites

Cited by 64 publications

References 24 publications

Determining the Importance of Coaching Methods in Workplace Health and Safety

Determining the Importance of Coaching Methods in Workplace Health and Safety

Fuzzy Hybrid Computing in Construction Engineering and Management

Assessing Construction Labours’ Safety Level: A Fuzzy McDm Approach

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