Prevention of construction falls by organizational intervention

Becker, Paul; Fullen, Mark; Akladios, Magdy; Hobbs, Glyn

doi:10.1136/ip.7.suppl_1.i64

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“…Becker et al, 2001) and general safety for a construction site. The tool developed by Becker et al (2001) includes measures of safety culture through interviewing construction supervisors and managers. The tool presented here does not measure the policy and attitudes towards safety on a work site; however, the goal was that the compliance to best practices observed via the tool is associated with these attitudes and policies.…”

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“…The tool should be portable and electronic providing easy data collection via a simple construction site walk-through. The inspiration of the tool comes from the West Virginia's Fall Safe tool, which evaluates all fall protection systems at the site using custom-designed software implemented on a hand held computer (Becker et al, 2001). The goal here was limited to portable ladders; however, the tool can provide an inventory of alternative mobile elevated work platform tools at a site, such as aerial buckets, scissor lifts, and mobile scaffolding.…”

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“…Becker et al, 2001). These tools allow for researchers and practitioners to quantify compliance with fall protection best practices.…”

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Portable ladder assessment tool development and validation – Quantifying best practices in the field

Dennerlein¹,

Ronk²,

Perry³

2009

Safety Science

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Many causes for falls from ladders in construction are related to the user's activities; however, the extent to which users comply with ladder use best practices is unknown and has not been well quantified before. We developed and tested an audit tool that assesses compliance with best practices guidelines for portable ladder use designed for applications in the construction industry. Implemented on a hand-held computer, the assessment tool consisted of a series of checklists categorized in four groups; ladder condition, setup, moving on a ladder, and completing tasks from a ladder. For these four observational categories, the resulting tool contained 31 and 33 questions for step and extension ladders, respectively. Three individuals trained to use the tool scored a set of photographs and videos depicting 25 ladder conditions, 20 ladder setups, 10 users moving on ladders, and 13 users completing tasks from a ladder for a total of 78 observations. The assessment tool had good agreement across and within raters. For the three raters, agreement ranged from 79% to 97% across the questions. Within one subject, kappa coefficients for the intrarater reliability ranged from 0.67 to 0.91. The tool offers a practical method to quantify best practices associated with ladder use that can ultimately inform targeted intervention efforts. KeywordsLadder; Construction; Falls; Fall Hazard Identification INTRODUCTIONFalls from ladders are a serious and often overlooked cause of falls. In the United States construction industry, falls from ladders are responsible for 16% of all fatal injuries and 24% of non-fatal injuries that involved days away from work (CPWR, 2008). These falls can often disable workers (Smith et al., 2006). Nearly 40% of workers with ladder-related injuries were absent from work for more than a month (Axelsson and Carter, 1995) and half of those injured "experienced continuing, possibly permanent disability." A majority of these ladder injuries involve portable ladders.While many efforts have developed specific design standards (e.g. ANSI.A14) for ladder safety, many of the causes for falls are related to the use of practices (Cohen and Lin, 1991). Cohen and Lin (1991) reported the leading activities involved in falls from ladders included Corresponding Author: Jack T. Dennerlein, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA, Voice: +1 617 384 8812, Fax: +1 617 384 8767, e-mail: jax@hsph.harvard.edu. Publisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. 19%), slipping on rungs (14%), and miss-stepping on rungs (10%). Other causes repo...

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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“…Becker et al, 2001). These tools allow for researchers and practitioners to quantify compliance with fall protection best practices.…”

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Portable ladder assessment tool development and validation – Quantifying best practices in the field

Dennerlein¹,

Ronk²,

Perry³

2009

Safety Science

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“…The type of construction work varied, from specific trades (e.g., carpentry, roofing, tiling, concrete, floor laying) to larger scale industries (e.g., metal/steel/aluminium work, stone quarry, railways). Six studies were conducted in the USA (Becker et al, 2001;Darragh et al, 2004;Forst et al, 2013;Kerr et al, 2007;Lusk et al, 1999;Sokas et al, 2009), three in Denmark (Kines et al, 2013(Kines et al, , 2010Spangenberg et al, 2002), two in Italy (Bena et al, 2009;Mancini et al, 2005), and one each in Hong Kong (Lingard and Rowlinson, 1997), India (Adams et al, 2013), Spain (Lopez-Ruiz et al, 2013), and Finland (Laitinen and Päivärinta, 2010).…”

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Active behaviour change safety interventions in the construction industry: A systematic review

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a b s t r a c tThe aims of this paper were to systematically review the evidence for the effectiveness of active behaviour change safety interventions in the construction industry; and to determine the intervention characteristics most commonly associated with effectiveness in reducing injury rates and improving safety behaviour -intensity/frequency/duration, behaviour change techniques (BCTs) and theory-base. An electronic literature search (June 2014) was conducted to identify eligible interventions: those involving active involvement from workers/management in the construction industry; targeted one/both of the primary outcomes. All intervention designs involving construction workers aged >18 years, published in English and in a peer-reviewed journal were included. Fifteen studies were included, half of which successfully improved injury rates. Longer interventions and those that included active/volitional BCTs (feedback/monitoring rather than instruction/information) were more effective. The methodological quality of the interventions was poor and use of theory was inconsistent and infrequent. Despite some positive results, very few interventions achieved all their aims. More rigorous, theory-driven research is needed to structure intervention efforts and determine the mechanism of action of effective interventions.

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