Results of a fall prevention educational intervention for residential construction

Evanoff, Bradley; Dale, Ann Marie; Zeringue, Angelique; Fuchs, Mark; Gaal, John; Lipscomb, Hester J.; Kaskutas, Vicki

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2016.06.019

Cited by 49 publications

(32 citation statements)

References 12 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…The results from a comprehensive analysis including surveys of 1018 apprentice carpenters and observational audits on 197 residential construction sites were used for fall prevention. This research supports growing evidence that worksite safety can be improved by training programmes geared towards boosting knowledge, changing attitudes and behaviours that affect construction falls [12]. Table 1.…”

Section: State Of the Artsupporting

confidence: 77%

An application of the Pareto method in surveys to diagnose managers’ and workers’ perception of occupational safety and health on selected Polish construction sites

Obolewicz

Dąbrowski

2017

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The construction industry is an important sector of the economy in Poland. According to the National Labour Inspectorate (PIP) data of 2014, the number of victims of fatal accidents in the construction sector amounted to 80 as compared with 187 injured in all other sectors of economy in Poland. This article presents the results of surveys on the impact of construction worker behaviour on the occupational safety and health outcomes. The surveys took into account the point of view of both construction site management (tactical level) and construction workers (operational level). For the analysis of results, the method of numerical taxonomy and Pareto charts was employed, which allowed the authors to identify the areas of occupational safety and health at both an operational and a tactical level, in which improvement actions needed to be proposed for workers employed in micro, small, medium and large construction enterprises.

show abstract

Section: State Of the Artsupporting

confidence: 77%

An application of the Pareto method in surveys to diagnose managers’ and workers’ perception of occupational safety and health on selected Polish construction sites

Obolewicz

Dąbrowski

2017

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…In 2015, 3.2 million non-fatal accidents, each of which resulted in the loss of at least four calendar days, and 3,786 fatal accidents were recorded in European Union countries (EU-28) in total (Eurostat, 2015). In addition, 2.8 million non-fatal accidents leading to 882,730 lost workdays and 5,147 fatalities occurred in the US in 2017 (U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2017).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, 2.8 million non-fatal accidents leading to 882,730 lost workdays and 5,147 fatalities occurred in the US in 2017 (U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2017). According to Eurostat (2015) and the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics (2017), 21% and 20.7% respectively of fatal occupational accidents occurred in the construction industry. These statistics show that the rate of accidents is so high that it cannot be ignored.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Association Rule Mining Model for the Assessment of the Correlations Between the Attributes of Severe Accidents

Ayhan

Doğan

Tokdemir

2020

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Identifying the correlations between the attributes of severe accidents could be vital to preventing them. If such relationships were known dynamically, it would be possible to take preventative actions against accidents. The paper aims to develop an analytical model that is adaptable for each type of data to create preventative measures that will be suitable for any computational systems. The present model collectively shows the relationships between the attributes in a coherent manner to avoid severe accidents. In this respect, Association Rule Mining (ARM) is used as the technique to identify the correlations between the attributes. The research adopts a positivist approach to adhere to the factual knowledge concerning nine different accident types through case studies and quantitative measurements in an objective nature. ARM was exemplified with nine different types of construction accidents to validate the adaptability of the proposed model. The results show that each accident type has different characteristics with varying combinations of the attribute, and analytical model accomplished to accommodate variation through the dataset. Ultimately, professionals can identify the cause-effect relationships effectively and set up preventative measures to break the link between the accident causing factors.

show abstract

“…Studies carried out by Evanoff et al [15] have also shown that work safety on scaffolding can be improved with the use of appropriate training methods.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Methodology of Classifying the Causes of Occupational Accidents Involving Construction Scaffolding Using Pareto-Lorenz Analysis

2018

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article presents the developed methodology of classifying and evaluating the causes of accidents involving construction scaffolding. This methodology allows the causes of accidents to be identified, classified into generic groups, and also allows the importance of individual causes in their generic groups to be assessed. For the classification of causes, the Technical-Organizational-Human (TOH) method was used. Its assumption is the division of causes into technical (T), organizational (O), and human (H) ones. Pareto-Lorenz analysis and ABC classification were used to identify the most important causes. The developed methodology was used to analyze and assess the causes of accidents that involve construction scaffolding using the data of accidents that occurred in Poland as an example. The use of the proposed methodology in different countries will enable the results of the conducted studies and analysis to be compared, and conclusions that would be of a great importance in accident prevention to be drawn.

show abstract

Results of a fall prevention educational intervention for residential construction

Cited by 49 publications

References 12 publications

An application of the Pareto method in surveys to diagnose managers’ and workers’ perception of occupational safety and health on selected Polish construction sites

An application of the Pareto method in surveys to diagnose managers’ and workers’ perception of occupational safety and health on selected Polish construction sites

An Association Rule Mining Model for the Assessment of the Correlations Between the Attributes of Severe Accidents

Methodology of Classifying the Causes of Occupational Accidents Involving Construction Scaffolding Using Pareto-Lorenz Analysis

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About