Suggestions for Improving South Korea’s Fall Accidents Prevention Technology in the Construction Industry: Focused on Analyzing Laws and Programs of the United States

Lim, Jeeyoung; Son, Kiyoung; Park, Chan-Sik; Kim, Dae-Young

doi:10.3390/su13084254

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“…Moreover, the cultural diversity of migrant construction workers should be considered in the safety management of construction sites. Understanding cultural diversity will facilitate effective communication between migrant construction workers and their supervisors (Lim et al. , 2021).…”

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Health and safety risk of migrant construction workers–a systematic literature review

Guan

Yiu²,

Samarasinghe³

et al. 2022

ECAM

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PurposeThe aim of this paper is to review and analyze the research literature on the health and safety issues of migrant workers in the construction industry from 2000 to 2022.Design/methodology/approach5 steps method is used to conduct a systematic review to achieve the objectives. After scanning two authoritative search engines “Web of Science” and “Scope”, 60 articles are selected from 225 publications for identification and review. These identified articles are classified by research fields, countries and time span.FindingsThe review finds that with the increasing influence of migrant construction workers, the number of publications on the health and safety of migrant workers has shown a rapid upward trend. Moreover, language barriers are the most dominant safety risk factors encountered by on-site migrant workers. This systematic literature review also summarizes the definition of migrant workers and solutions to reduce safety risk factors.Originality/valueThe research data on the health and safety issues and risk factors of migrant workers in the construction industry is still limited. This literature review summarizes the research trends and contributions of the literature in this field in the past 22 years and provides theoretical support for future research on the safety management of the migration construction field.

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Health and safety risk of migrant construction workers–a systematic literature review

Guan

Yiu²,

Samarasinghe³

et al. 2022

ECAM

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“…Additionally, various policies such as technical guidance and project support have been established in the Industrial Accident Prevention 5-Year Plan (2000-2019) to assist in the preparation of fall disaster prevention measures [58]. Despite ongoing efforts to reduce fall accidents, the number of deaths due to fall accidents continues to be a significant proportion in the construction industry [5].…”

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“…Fall-related injuries accounted for 32.1% of all injuries at construction sites in 2009 and 33.8% of all injuries in 2017, accounting for 32%-34% of all injuries. Additionally, falls account for approximately 50% of all fatalities in the construction industry [5]. In other words, because fall accidents are the most serious type of construction accident [4], they must be managed systematically.…”

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Computer Vision Process Development regarding Worker’s Safety Harness and Hook to Prevent Fall Accidents: Focused on System Scaffolds in South Korea

Lim

Jung

Park

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Advances in Civil Engineering

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In South Korea, industrial accidents continue to increase in frequency, with construction accidents accounting for more than a third of all industrial accidents. Specifically, by preventing fall accidents, the death rate from accidents can be reduced by 50%. Fall protection is required to prevent fall accidents, and investigating the reinforcement of the worker’s safety harness and hook fastening becomes imperative. This requires automation of computer vision confirmation of the safety harness and hook fastening. As the accident risk can be reduced by an effective safety culture in the system, it is necessary to monitor safety on site through a construction safety automation system. Therefore, the objective of this study is to develop a computer vision process for safety harness and hook for preventing fall accidents in South Korea’s construction industry. This study focuses on system scaffolds that are widely used at construction sites. The application of this methodology to sample sites and field cases established its applicability. The proposed computer vision application methodology will serve as the foundation for visualization research in the construction industry, and image recognition will help reduce the safety accident rate. Accidents caused by failure to use a safety harness and hook can be reduced in South Korea as well as globally. Additionally, this methodology is applicable to roof construction, tower crane installation and dismantling work, as well as steel tower installation and dismantling.

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“…In Spain, this is no exception, given that construction is often classified as one of the most accidentprone industries in the country [4,5]. Likewise, when talking about accidents in the construction industry, it is those due to falls from heights that occur most frequently with the most serious consequences, including the death of the injured worker [6][7][8].…”

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Performance of barrier systems and functions in the construction industry

Salguero-Caparrós

Martínez-Rojas

Pardo-Ferreira

et al. 2022

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics

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Objectives. Improving knowledge about the mechanism of accident occurrence in the construction industry provides important information to help design and implement appropriate barriers to stop the spread of unexpected events. This study characterizes the sequence of accidents in the construction industry by linking the most commonly identified circumstances, the barriers and barrier functions infringed and the specific way in which each of these functioned. Methods. In order to achieve the proposed objective, an analysis was made of 241 investigations of work accidents that occurred in the construction sector in Spain between 2009 and 2014. The statistical difference between the groups of variables was determined using contingency tables in which the value of the χ 2 statistic was calculated. Results. The results obtained show that behavioural factors are fundamentally identified, such as the worker's non-observance of ensuring their own safety or the deficient interpretation of rules. Conclusions. This study illustrates that to understand the performance of barrier systems and functions, efforts must be focused not only on the things that go wrong, i.e., accidents, but also on the things that go right within the variability of daily performance in systems as complex as the construction industry.

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Suggestions for Improving South Korea’s Fall Accidents Prevention Technology in the Construction Industry: Focused on Analyzing Laws and Programs of the United States

Cited by 4 publications

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Health and safety risk of migrant construction workers–a systematic literature review

Health and safety risk of migrant construction workers–a systematic literature review

Computer Vision Process Development regarding Worker’s Safety Harness and Hook to Prevent Fall Accidents: Focused on System Scaffolds in South Korea

Performance of barrier systems and functions in the construction industry

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