Understanding causes of fall and struck-by incidents: What differentiates construction safety in the Arabian Gulf region?

Fass, Simon M.; Yousef, Rami; Liginlal, Divakaran; Vyas, Priyanka

doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2016.05.002

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“…Similarly, Aneziris, Papazoglou, Mud, Damen, Bellamy, Manuel, and Oh [41] found that working near a mechanical lifting device carries the highest risk of an accident. Additionally, an analysis of 519 incidents in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia revealed that workers' skills and training correlate with being struck by falling objects [42]. The difference in the nature between new building and DSR projects leads to substantial differences in the causes of accidents; however, this difference has not been covered in the literature as per Table 1.…”

Section: Proximal Causementioning

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Ranking of Risks for Existing and New Building Works

Chau

Zeng

2019

Sustainability

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Site safety is one critical factor affecting the sustainability of skyscrapers and decoration, repair, and maintenance projects. Many newly-built skyscrapers exceed 50 storeys in Hong Kong and decoration, repair, and maintenance projects are widely performed to extend the lifespans of buildings. Although many cities do not contain skyscrapers at present, this will change in the future. Likewise, more decoration, repair, and maintenance projects will emerge. Thus, the present research, which compares the safety risks among the new and DSR projects, provides insights for builders, policymakers, and safety personnel. Moreover, research studies which rank and compare decoration, repair, and maintenance projects and new skyscraper constructions are scarce. The use of the evidence-based practice approach, which aims to narrow the gap between practice and academia in construction safety research, is the first of its kind. In this paper, we firstly provide a systematic literature review from 1999 to 2019 regarding construction safety, and then study the industry’s perspectives by analysing the construction practitioners’ interview results, court cases, and analytic hierarchy process survey results to compare them with the literature. It is found that the generation gap and prolonged working hours lead to accidents—a phenomenon which is unique in Hong Kong and absent from the literature. It also reveals that most accidents happen on new building sites due to tower crane failure, while those on DSR projects are linked with the circular saw. Although many of the contractors involved in new buildings are wealthier than DSR contractors, it is surprising to learn that lack of funding for safety is the most important factor linked to safety risks on the sites.

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Section: Proximal Causementioning

confidence: 99%

Ranking of Risks for Existing and New Building Works

Chau

Zeng

2019

Sustainability

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“…Four groups of unsafe behaviors, with the greatest impact on the four types of accidents, were identified. The four groups of unsafe behaviors derived from the backward reasoning represent the groups of unsafe behaviors that most likely lead to the four types of accidents, which were also identified as critical factors in several existing studies [30,47,48]. Thus, the unsafe behaviors in these groups should be collaboratively controlled during construction.…”

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Exploring the Impact of Unsafe Behaviors on Building Construction Accidents Using a Bayesian Network

Guo

et al. 2019

IJERPH

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Unsafe behavior is a critical factor leading to construction accidents. Despite numerous studies supporting this viewpoint, the process by which accidents are influenced by construction workers’ unsafe behaviors and the extent to which unsafe behaviors are involved in this process remain poorly discussed. Therefore, this paper selects cases from Chinese building construction accidents to explore the probabilistic transmission paths from unsafe behaviors to accidents using a Bayesian network. First, a list of unsafe behaviors is constructed based on safety standards and operating procedures. Second, several chains of unsafe behaviors are extracted from 287 accident cases within four types (fall, collapse, struck-by and lifting) to form a Bayesian network model. Finally, two accidents are specifically analyzed to verify the rationality of the proposed model through forward reasoning. Additionally, critical groups of unsafe behaviors leading to the four types of accidents are identified through backward reasoning. The results show the following: (i) The time sequence of unsafe behaviors in a chain does not affect the final posterior probability of an accident, but the accident attribute strength of an unsafe behavior, affects the growth rate of the posterior probability of an accident. (ii) The four critical groups of unsafe behaviors leading to fall, collapse, struck-by, and lifting are identified. This study is of theoretical and practical significance for on-site behavioral management and accident prevention.

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“…There is limited data available in the GCC as to whether identified risk factors and proven mitigation strategies from other high-income countries were applicable in the local context [32]. There are additional challenges in GCC countries for occupational health and safety that largely stem from the culturally, economically, ethnically, and socially heterogeneous nature of the worker population.…”

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Work related injuries in Qatar: a framework for prevention and control

Mehmood

Maung

Consunji

et al. 2018

J Occup Med Toxicol

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Work related injuries (WRIs) are a growing public health concern that remains under-recognized, inadequately addressed and largely unmeasured in low and middle-income countries (LMIC’s). However, even in high-income countries, such as those in Gulf Cooperating Council (GCC) like Qatar, there are challenges in assuring the health and safety of its labor population. Countries in the GCC have been rapidly developing as a result of the economic boom from the petrochemical industry during the early seventies. Economic prosperity has propelled the migration of workers from less developed countries to make up for the human resource deficiency to develop its infrastructure, service and hospitality industries. Although these countries have gradually made huge gains in health, economy and human development index, including improvements in life expectancy, education, and standard of living, there remains a high incidence of work-related injuries especially in jobs in the construction and petrochemical sector. Currently, there is scarcity of literature on work-related injuries, especially empirical studies documenting the burden, characteristics and risk factors of work injuries and the work injured population, which includes large numbers of migrant workers in many GCC countries. This paper will focus on the current understanding of WRIs in those countries and identify the gaps in current approaches to workplace injury prevention, outlining current status of WRI prevention efforts in Qatar, and propose a framework of concerted action by multi-sectoral engagement.

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Understanding causes of fall and struck-by incidents: What differentiates construction safety in the Arabian Gulf region?

Cited by 49 publications

References 56 publications

Ranking of Risks for Existing and New Building Works

Ranking of Risks for Existing and New Building Works

Exploring the Impact of Unsafe Behaviors on Building Construction Accidents Using a Bayesian Network

Work related injuries in Qatar: a framework for prevention and control

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