Relationship between Unsafe Working Conditions and Workers’ Behavior and Impact of Working Conditions on Injury Severity in U.S. Construction Industry

Chi, Seokho; Han, Sangwon; Kim, Dae Young

doi:10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0000657

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“…Because of the lack of training in safety and technology knowledge, workers are haven't ability and sufficient knowledge to predicts the potential risk and the way to avoid the accidents [13]. The use of unsafe working platforms also may put workers at risk when the equipment is not properly used, maintained or stored [14]. Construction worker's safety attitude is influence by their understanding and realizing of risk, management, safety rules and the working procedures [15].…”

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Accidents Preventive Practice for High-Rise Construction

Goh

Omar

et al. 2016

MATEC Web of Conferences

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Abstract. The demand of high-rise projects continues to grow due to the reducing of usable land area in Klang Valley, Malaysia. The rapidly development of high-rise projects has leaded to the rise of fatalities and accidents. An accident that happened in a construction site can cause serious physical injury. The accidents such as people falling from height and struck by falling object were the most frequent accidents happened in Malaysian construction industry. The continuous growth of high-rise buildings indicates that there is a need of an effective safety and health management. Hence, this research aims to identify the causes of accidents and the ways to prevent accidents that occur at high-rise building construction site. Qualitative method was employed in this research. Interview surveying with safety officers who are involved in highrise building project in Kuala Lumpur were conducted in this research. Accidents were caused by man-made factors, environment factors or machinery factors. The accidents prevention methods were provide sufficient Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), have a good housekeeping, execute safety inspection, provide safety training and execute accidents investigation. In the meanwhile, interviewees have suggested the new prevention methods that were develop a proper site layout planning and de-merit and merit system among subcontractors, suppliers and even employees regarding safety at workplace matters. This research helps in explaining the causes of accidents and identifying area where prevention action should be implemented, so that workers and top management will increase awareness in preventing site accidents.

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Accidents Preventive Practice for High-Rise Construction

Goh

Omar

et al. 2016

MATEC Web of Conferences

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“…Site conditions or work environments play an important role in construction accidents (Chi et al 2013). Construction sites are often labelled as unsafe, dangerous or hazardous places to work (Sherratt et al 2013).…”

Section: Factors Affecting the Severity Of Construction Accidentsmentioning

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“…Personal and work characteristics combined with the working environment are believed to influence the creation of a hazardous environment that could be triggered by different mechanisms that cause an accident (Cheng et al 2012;Chi et al 2013). According to Safe Work Australia (2013), the mechanism of an accident describes the action, exposure or event directly causing an injury.…”

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Factors associated with the severity of construction accidents: The case of South Australia

Dumrak

Mostafa

Kamardeen

et al. 2013

CEB

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While the causes of accidents in the construction industry have been extensively studied, severity remains an underexplored area. In order to provide more evidence for the currently limited number of empirical investigations on severity, this study analysed 24,764 construction accidents reported during 2002-11 in South Australia. A conceptual model developed through literature used personal characteristics such as age, experience, gender and language background. It also employed work-related factors such as size of organization, project size and location, mechanism of accident and body location of the injury. These facilitated demonstrating why some accidents result in only a minor severity while others are fatal. Factors such as time of accident, day of the week and season were not strongly associated with accident severities. When the factors affect the severity of accidents are well understood, high risk factors can be singled out and specific preventive measures could be developed.

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“…in risky and hazardous situations), usually less than 200 ms. In a recent study, Chi et al [31] analyzed 9,358 accidents that occurred in the U.S. construction industry and found a significant correlation between workers' behavior and their impact on injury severity. Approximately 80 to 90 percent of these accidents were strongly associated with workers' unsafe behavior and acts.…”

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Advancing Safety by In-Depth Assessment of Workers Attention and Perception

Asadi¹,

Karan²,

Mohammadpour³

2017

IJSS

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Considering the complexity and sometimes unpredictability of human behavior, and its role on workplace injuries, it is surprising that psychological research has contributed relatively little in studying workplace safety compared to technology development. The focus of this paper is thus shifted to psychological investigation of human factors to understand how a hazard is perceived, how a seen hazard is recognized, and how a decision must be made to avoid the hazard. The study is conducted through a three-step experiment including a questionnaire, Balloon-Analogue-Risk-Task (BART) test and safety photos and video clips with an eye tracking system to measure and analyze the relationship between the worker's personality and perceptions of risks and hazards. A very close relationship was found between the length of time a participant spent looking at a hazard and the number of hazards identified correctly.Participants with a higher safety score were able to recognize more safety hazards than those with lower safety score. Moreover, it was found that risk-takers were underestimating a hazard, whereas more cautious and less risky participants were overestimating a hazard.

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Relationship between Unsafe Working Conditions and Workers’ Behavior and Impact of Working Conditions on Injury Severity in U.S. Construction Industry

Cited by 112 publications

References 30 publications

Accidents Preventive Practice for High-Rise Construction

Accidents Preventive Practice for High-Rise Construction

Factors associated with the severity of construction accidents: The case of South Australia

Advancing Safety by In-Depth Assessment of Workers Attention and Perception

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