Management of construction Safety and Health Plans based on automated content analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 120 ◽  
pp. 103362 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Martínez-Rojas ◽  
Rubén Martín Antolín ◽  
Francisco Salguero-Caparrós ◽  
Juan Carlos Rubio-Romero
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Construction Safety ◽  
Health Plans ◽  
Automated Content Analysis ◽  
Safety And Health

Relative Importance of Hazards at Construction Sites

2013 ◽  
Vol 330 ◽  
pp. 867-871
Author(s):  
Zahra Jabbarani Torghabeh ◽  
Seyyed Shahab Hosseinian ◽  
Aziruddin Ressang
Keyword(s):  
Safety Management ◽  
Construction Safety ◽  
Hazard Identification ◽  
Health Plans ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Blue Green Algae ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Manual Handling ◽  
Construction Safety Management ◽  
Construction Hazards

Construction hazard identification is one of the fundamental steps in construction safety management therefore identifying hazards and determining their severities of consequences are extremely important. The aim of this study is to investigate and rank the construction hazards in order of the severity of consequences. The data for this study were collected using a questionnaire survey, distributed among respondents randomly selected from construction sites within Malaysia. The results of this study indicated that the most critical construction hazards are Awkward postures, Forceful exertions and Physical injury hazards which originate from process of work and manual handling of operations and equipments. On the contrary Blue green algae and Fungi are the least critical construction hazards which are not critical threats to the safety and health of construction workers. In addition to training and educational purposes, the results of this study can be used in preparing appropriate construction safety and health plans.

Organizational assessment and development in construction safety and health

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantin Cigularov ◽  
Peter Y. Chen ◽  
David A. Hoffman ◽  
Donald Edward Eggerth
Keyword(s):  
Construction Safety ◽  
Organizational Assessment ◽  
Safety And Health

International benchmarking for performance improvement in construction safety and health

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 916-936 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lance W. Saunders ◽  
Andrew P McCoy ◽  
Brian M. Kleiner ◽  
Helen Lingard ◽  
Tracy Cooke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Construction Safety ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Worker Safety ◽  
Potential Hazard ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Project Lifecycle

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to advance knowledge on the advantages of integrating safety earlier in the construction project lifecycle. Design/methodology/approach – A case study approach is used to collect data from construction sites in the USA, which performs poorly in construction safety and health, and Australia (AU), which performs well in construction safety and health. Qualitative data are collected to determine how and when safety is considered in the project lifecycle in both countries, and then the results are benchmarked to determine the benefits of addressing safety earlier in the process. Findings – Data show that addressing a potential hazard earlier in the project lifecycle has performance benefits in terms of the level of hazard control. Research limitations/implications – The processes that are identified as possibly explaining the performance difference are just based on qualitative data from interviews. Targeted research addressing the relationship between these processes and safety outcomes is an opportunity for further research. Practical implications – The case study data are used to identify specific processes that are used in AU that might be adopted in the USA to improve performance by integrating safety earlier into the decision-making process. Social implications – This paper highlights the advantages of integrating safety as a decision factor early in the process. Worker safety is not just an issue in the construction industry, and thus the findings are applicable to all industries in which worker safety is an issue. Originality/value – This paper advances the safety in design literature by quantitatively supporting the link between when a hazard is addressed and performance. It also links the results to specific processes across countries, which advances the literature because most research in this area to data is within a single country.

Reliability and Validity in Automated Content Analysis

2014 ◽  
pp. 352-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Soroka
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Latent Variables ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Automated Content Analysis ◽  
Content Analyses ◽  
The Many

In light of the research in other chapters in this volume, this chapter considers some of the important and as-yet-unresolved methodological issues in automated content analysis. The chapter focuses on DICTION in particular, but the concerns raised here also apply to automated content analytic techniques more generally. Those concerns are twofold. First, the chapter considers the importance of aggregation for the reliability of content analyses, both human- and computer-coded. Second, the chapter reviews some of the difficulties associated with testing the validity of the kinds of complex (latent) variables on which DICTION is focused. On the whole, the chapter argues that this (and its companion) volume reflect just some of the many possibilities for DICTION-based analyses, but researchers must proceed with a certain amount of caution as well.

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