Safety in the Quebec construction industry: An overview of and possible improvements in hazardous energy control using lockout on construction sites by electricians, pipefitters, refrigeration mechanics and construction millwrights

2021 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 105468
Author(s):  
Damien Burlet-Vienney ◽  
Yuvin Chinniah ◽  
Ayoub Nokra ◽  
Abdallah Ben Mosbah
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Energy Control

scholarly journals Risk Perception in the Construction Industry: Differences Between Italian and Migrant Workers Before and After a Targeted Training Intervention

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-71
Author(s):  
Federico Ricci ◽  
Giulia Bravo ◽  
Alberto Modenese ◽  
Fabrizio De Pasquale ◽  
Davide Ferrari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Construction Workers ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Visual Tool ◽  
Occupational Risks ◽  
Linguistic Barriers ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Difference

We developed a visual tool to assess risk perception for a sample of male construction workers (forty Italian and twenty-eight immigrant workers), just before and after a sixteen-hour training course. The questionnaire included photographs of real construction sites, and workers were instructed to select pictograms representing the occupational risks present in each photograph. Points were awarded for correctly identifying any risks that were present, and points were deducted for failing to identify risks that were present or identifying risks that were not present. We found: (1) Before the course, risk perception was significantly lower in immigrants compared to Italians ( p < .001); (2) risk perception improved significantly ( p < .001) among all workers tested; and (3) after the training, the difference in risk perception between Italians and immigrants was no longer statistically significant ( p = .1086). Although the sample size was relatively small, the results suggest that the training is effective and may reduce the degree to which cultural and linguistic barriers hinder risk perception. Moreover, the use of images and pictograms instead of words to evaluate risk perception could also be applied to nonconstruction workplaces.

scholarly journals The identification and analysis of making-do waste: insights from two Brazilian construction sites

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Torres Formoso ◽  
Lucila Sommer ◽  
Lauri Koskela ◽  
Eduardo Luís Isatto
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Human Practice ◽  
External Conditions ◽  
Exploratory Case Studies

Abstract Making-do has been pointed out as an important category of waste in the construction industry. It refers to a situation in which a task starts or continues without having available all the inputs required for its completion, such as materials, machinery, tools, personnel, external conditions, and information. By contrast, the literature points out that improvisation is a ubiquitous human practice even in highly structured business organizations, and plays an important role when rules and methods fail. The aim of this paper is to provide some insights on the nature of making-do as a type of waste, based on two exploratory case studies carried out on construction sites. The main contributions of this research work are concerned with the identification of different categories of making-do and its main causes. This paper also discusses some strategies for reducing making-do on construction sites.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Rules and regulation of Construction and Demolition Waste Management (CDWM) in India

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S11) ◽  
pp. 2642-2644
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction And Demolition Waste ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Demolition Waste ◽  
Construction Waste

The rules and regulations on waste management in the construction and demolition sector are analyzed corresponding to the present scenario of C&DW in India. C&D waste from construction sites has emerged as a significant threat to India because of its severe footprint on the environment. Vast quantities of construction waste will have unfavorable consequences on the surroundings if they are not properly managed. Therefore it is necessary to manage the development of C&DW by the experts within the construction industry. The approach represented is specialized in rules and regulations on waste management so that the environmental impact of construction activities can be minimized.

scholarly journals Chemical hazards in construction industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 03032 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Kowalik ◽  
Dominik Logoń ◽  
Marek Maj ◽  
Jarosław Rybak ◽  
Aleksandra Ubysz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Harmful Effect ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Chemical Hazards ◽  
Direct Sensing ◽  
Chemical Threats ◽  
Bacteriological Contamination ◽  
Design Construction

Rapid technological progress in construction requires that more and more attention should be paid to human security issues. Threats occur both at the stage of building facilities and during their use. Some impacts are easy to identify during construction stage like shocks and vibrations, others are hidden from sight and direct sensing like the harmful effect of chemicals. In addition to accidents that happen on construction sites, there are still objective threats, which may occur throughout the lifetime of the facility. In addition to clearly perceptible ones such as earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, there are hidden threats as well: bacteriological contamination, radiation or chemical interactions that occur in time. This article points to the most common chemical hazards. Examples of chemical threats occurring in construction at the stages of design, construction and use of buildings will be given below.

scholarly journals Sustainable Ship Loading Planning for Prefabricated Products in the Construction Industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 8905
Author(s):  
Wen Yi ◽  
Robyn Phipps ◽  
Hans Wang
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Transportation Cost ◽  
Sustainable Transportation ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Integer Optimization ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Capacity Limits ◽  
Proposed Model

This paper focuses on sustainable transportation of prefab products from factories to construction sites by ship. Since the transportation cost for all the prefab products of a construction site is mainly dependent on the number of cargo holds used on ships, a loading plan for prefab products that minimizes the number of holds required is highly desirable. This paper is therefore devoted to the development of an optimal loading plan that decides which prefab products are loaded into each cargo hold and how to pack these prefab products into the holds so that as few holds as possible are used. We formulate the problem as a large-scale integer optimization model whose objective function is to minimize the total number of cargo holds used and whose constraints represent the cargo hold capacity limits. We develop a heuristic to solve the problem and obtain a high-quality solution. We have tested the model and algorithm on a case study that includes 20 prefab products. We find that different cargo holds carry prefab products that have quite different densities. Moreover, the orientations of many prefab products are different from their default orientations. The results demonstrate the applicability of the proposed model and algorithm.

scholarly journals Tension between Productivity and Respect for People in Construction

2020 ◽  
Vol 312 ◽  
pp. 05005
Author(s):  
Lesiba George Mollo ◽  
Fidelis Emuze ◽  
Nicholus Sishuba
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Management System ◽  
Ethical Reasoning ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Productivity in the construction industry is declining in real-time. The decline in productivity is a source of worry for practitioners and researchers. The purpose of this paper is to ascertain major factors influencing productivity in relation to the notion of respects for people (RFP) in construction. The reviewed literature influences the semi-structured questionnaire used to survey construction professionals in Johannesburg, South Africa. The results reaffirm the tension productivity increment and the enhancement of RfP as both ideas appear to be moving in opposite directions on a typical construction site. It was discovered that respect for workers on a construction site is a major concern. The paper argues that ethical reasoning affects productivity. Therefore, an appropriate management system is required to improve the workers' perception of productivity and RfP working on construction sites.

A STUDY OF IM-SMARTSAFETY COURSEWARE DEVELOPMENT FOR FOREIGN WORKERS IN SAFETY COURSE MALAYSIA CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurul Azita Salleh ◽  
Faizatul Akmar Abdul Nifa ◽  
Muhammad Nazrin Shah Zakaria ◽  
Norazah Mohd Nordin ◽  
Abdul Khalim Abdul Rashid
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Learning Theories ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Negative Behavior ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Text Information

IM-SmartSAFETY is an application developed as a medium for delivering contents to foreign workers in response to language problem in Health and Safety Induction Course (HSIC). It is a compulsory initial course for all workers including local and foreign workers and professionals before entering into construction sites. In ensuring IM-SmartSAFETY meets the objective of the course, learning theories, particularly constructivism, social, and minimalism, have been applied along the development process. In accordance, this paper discusses the importance of applying learning theories in the IM-SmartSAFETY. Constructivism theory is important in IM-SmartSAFETY because it supports the creation of new knowledge through creative and critical thinking based on the existing knowledge while solving problems in existing cases. Meanwhile through social theory, emphasis on cognitive is deeper than on physical behavior in which visual representation of positive and negative behavior could be imitated. It also promotes social interaction among the peers and between the trainees and the trainers through activities provided in the application. Further, minimalism theory is important because it ensures the application is appealing in terms arrangement of text, information, graphic, color, and audio so that they never confuse the foreign workers, but make them understand.

Organized Crime in the Construction Industry

1977 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph C. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Heavy Equipment ◽  
Societal Changes

The theft of heavy equipment from construction sites is an organized, systematic, criminal operation, encouraged and sustained by contractors within the construction industry and designed to enrich burglars, illicit salesmen, and seemingly legitimate businessmen. From information gathered directly from those affected and involved, the article shows how the system of organized construction site crime works, which institutions profit as a result, and how these institutions support one another to give organized theft the means to survive. Finally, it explains the reasons for failure of current attempts to fight this type of crime and suggests the types of institutional and societal changes needed to curtail it.

scholarly journals ACHIEVING SAFETY AND PRODUCTIVITY IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafiq Muhammad CHOUDHRY
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Hard Copy ◽  
Construction Sites

Improvement of safety and productivity are major concerns throughout the construction industry. There is a dearth of efforts that document the need for simultaneous achievement of safety and productivity on construction sites. The objective of this research is to investigate productivity and safety simultaneously on construction projects by con­ducting a survey. In total, 1,800 hard-copy questionnaires were distributed and the response rate was 81%, resulting in 1,454 valid questionnaires for analysis. Safety and productivity were investigated on 25 construction projects by means of statistical analysis. The results indicated that eleven of the fifteen significant findings pertained to safety and the rest to productivity. The results confirmed that it is possible to improve productivity and safety simultaneously on construc­tion projects. All measures were found to be correlated with both safety and productivity. The findings of this research provide practical knowledge to project managers and safety practitioners on construction projects to achieve safety and productivity simultaneously. The methodology of research might be useful for research at other construction projects in other regions and cultures.

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