Going underground: Fatigue and sleepiness in tunnelling operations

Maynard, Sally; Jones, Wendy; Filtness, Ashleigh J.; Gibb, Alistair G.F.; Haslam, Roger

doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2020.103237

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“…This requires extra time and resources, and in practice people may try to work round each other in an unplanned, and often risky, manner. One implication is that some sites are moving to 24‐h working to meet deadlines, creating both fatigue risks (Hallowell, 2010; Maynard et al, 2020) and issues around handover.…”

Section: Observation 3: Organizational Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of COVID‐19 on health and safety in the construction sector

Stiles

Golightly

Ryan

2021

Hum Ftrs & Erg Mfg Svc

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Construction has been significantly affected by COVID‐19 yet is critical to the post‐COVID economic recovery. Specifically, construction needs to be constantly aware of safety and risk balanced with timely project delivery. Guidance for COVID‐19 must therefore be implemented in a way that reflects working practice and pressures. There is, however, a potential knowledge gap regarding the practical feasibility and impact of applying COVID‐19 measures within construction, made more difficult by factors such as the temporary nature of projects and complex working arrangements. This article presents a commentary on safe construction during, and beyond, COVID‐19, covering the human factors challenges and practicalities of implementing COVID‐19 measures. We observe that while guidance is strong on risk management, understanding of how best to implement this guidance is not yet stable. Also, care must be taken that implementing guidance does not detract from general safety, which is also challenged by increased pressures on delivery arising from COVID‐19. There may, however, be opportunities for safer working practice arising from new awareness of health, hygiene, and safety risk. The role of safety leadership is overlooked in guidance yet is vital to ensure safe application of COVID‐19 working practices. The key message is that COVID‐19 needs to be integrated and promoted within a general risk management approach, in part because this takes account of differing priorities regarding safety risks, rather than overly focussing on COVID‐19, and also because the effectiveness of COVID‐19 mitigations can be amplified by integration with pre‐existing safety processes.

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Section: Observation 3: Organizational Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of COVID‐19 on health and safety in the construction sector

Stiles

Golightly

Ryan

2021

Hum Ftrs & Erg Mfg Svc

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“…In the statistics of this study, the ratio of the number of fatalities to the number of accidents (RFA) during tunnel construction is 3.8, which is much higher than the average of 1.6 for the RFA of HC . In addition, (Maynard et al, 2020) found that the complex environment of the tunnel construction exposes workers to a wide range of occupational factors, which increase their vulnerability to fatigue and tendency to unsafe acts. To test and verify the ACM-HC, a tunnel collapse accident that occurred in southern China on December 29, 2014, was selected as a case study.…”

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Modified accident causation model for highway construction accidents (ACM-HC)

Tong

Zhao

Zhang

et al. 2020

ECAM

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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to establish a modified accident causation model for highway construction accidents (ACM-HC) and describe the establishment process of the ACM-HC.Design/methodology/approachBased on the 2–4 Model, a framework of the ACM-HC was constructed, and the accident causal factors (CF) were extracted from four aspects of human, material, environment and management. In addition, association rule mining (ARM) was introduced to analyze accident investigation reports to obtain the interrelationships between the factors. Based on the framework, factors and ARM results, the ACM-HC was established. Finally, the ACM-HC was verified with a tunnel collapse accident.FindingsBoth the external and internal causes of contractor cause accidents. The flaws of safety management of other stakeholders are external causes. In terms of the internal causes, there are four stages: direct causes, indirect causes, radical causes and root causes. More specifically, the direct causes refer to the unsafe acts and the unsafe conditions; ineffective safety supervision and poor individual factors of frontline workers constitute the indirect causes; the radical causes lie in the flaws of construction procedures and technical schemes; the root causes are related to the poor individual factors of decision makers and managers.Originality/valueThe ACM-HC expresses the causes, sequence and mechanism of highway construction accidents in a visual way. In addition, this study describes a process of using a qualitative–quantitative hybrid approach to establish a modified ACM, which provides a different perspective for the establishment of an ACM.

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“…[13]. Also in 2021, a study investigated that tunneling constructions personnel are subjected to a variety of occupational circumstances that can make them more prone to fatigue, taking into account the external conditions, monotonous tasks that must be done repeatedly, shift schedules that vary, and work that requires manual labor, pressures resulting from shift work, exposure to demanding workload, and physical efforts such as manual digging, all of which can reduce optimal performance, sleepiness, and circadian disruption [4]. In 2017, a study was conducted to show that accident rates are high due to a variety of issues, including insufficient design safety, a shortage of construction planning, insufficient training in safety, the attitude of the employees, and a shortage of understanding of workplace laws.…”

Section: Personnel Safety and Emergency Plans-related Riskmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hazard Management in Tunnels’ Construction: State-of-the-Art

Faisal

Mohamed

EL-Dash³

2022

Engineering Research Journal - Faculty of Engineering (Shoubra)

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The construction industry has one of the highest work accident rates in the world when compared to other industrial undertakings, particularly tunneling construction. Risk events are often interrelated. The occurrence of a technical risk usually carries a cost and scheduled consequences. Schedule risks typically impact cost escalation and project overhead. Some projects are primarily schedule-driven; other projects are primarily cost or qualitydriven. The objective of this study is to perform a comprehensive investigation about hazards and risks in the construction process of tunnels by carrying out a state-of-the-art study on the most critical risks in tunnel construction projects. The methodology used was a systematic review of all available literature in the previous studies. As a result of the review, as ix-group risk categorization was developed, which includes risks associated with confined spaces, ventilation &air monitoring, fires, physical &chemical hazards, electricity, personnel safety& emergency plans. According to the output of this study, managing hazards and risks will aid managers and engineers in attaining their goals, achieving safety management, reducing, and controlling accidents and injuries in tunnel construction sites. This will result in a safer workplace, more worker awareness, and a reduction in project schedules and costs.

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Going underground: Fatigue and sleepiness in tunnelling operations

Cited by 9 publications

References 30 publications

Impact of COVID‐19 on health and safety in the construction sector

Impact of COVID‐19 on health and safety in the construction sector

Modified accident causation model for highway construction accidents (ACM-HC)

Hazard Management in Tunnels’ Construction: State-of-the-Art

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