Safety concerns in China’s construction industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-152
Author(s):  
Tang Zhongsheng ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Method Comparison ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Construction Safety ◽  
Construction Site

Objective: To study the main problems of labor process safety in the construction industry drawing on the example of the construction of residential buildings. To identify the main factors affecting the construction safety conditions. To propose a new organizational structure for workforce to improve safety management at the construction site. Methods: Analysis, synthesis, statistical method, comparison method, and legal analysis method were applied. Results: It has been established that the growth rate of China’s construction sector surpasses its regulatory framework, which needs to be changed as soon as possible. The state needs to make a concerted effort to unify labor safety standards at construction sites. Five factors were identified that affect the safety conditions during the construction of a residential building: human, construction equipment, environment, construction management and technical. As a result of the study, a new organizational structure for the working personnel has been proposed, based on strengthening supervision both by the management and among the workers in order to change safety conditions management at the construction site. A detailed analysis of the incidents that occurred in 2018 made it possible to identify the most frequent accidents related to construction safety, as well as their types. Construction failures are mainly attributed to management rather than technical aspects. Practical importance: The results obtained can become the basis for further research on occupational safety in China’s construction industry, training and lecture materials. The proposed organizational structure of the working personnel will enable construction companies to carry out construction projects most efficiently while observing all labor protection standards. It is necessary to update the legal framework in the field of working conditions safety.

scholarly journals An Effective Safety Handling System for Construction Industry in Kerala

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 3968-3972
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Construction Safety ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Loss Of Life ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Construction Safety Management ◽  
Construction Works

The construction industry plays a prominent part in the progress of a country socially and economically. Nowadays construction industry has grown profit driven and the management focuses more on completing the projects on time neglecting safety of the workers. Construction works involving intricate works leading to accidents or injuries resulting in loss of life and body parts are rampant. So a proper safety management system is required to avoid accidents and improve safety at construction sites. Factors affecting safety at construction workplaces were identified and was surveyed through a quantitative questionnaire and analysed to form a basis for the total construction safety management model. The Total Construction Safety Management (TCSM) based on the PDCA modelling is proposed to improve safety at construction sites. This model can act as a guide to the present organizations and helps them to implement safety in quicker manner at construction site.

scholarly journals Research on Safety Management Application of Dangerous Sources in Engineering Construction Based on BIM Technology

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Langni Deng ◽  
Mengjun Zhong ◽  
Ling Liao ◽  
Lai Peng ◽  
Shijin Lai
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Management ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Construction Safety ◽  
Secondary Development ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Time Data

The construction industry is a high-risk industry, so many scholars have done research on how to reduce safety accidents at the construction site. However, due to the existence of hidden dangers in construction, accidents at the construction site still plague the development of the construction industry. Therefore, effective management of construction hazards is an important step to strengthen construction safety. At present, the technology of BIM has been gradually applied to various fields of construction projects, providing strong support for the smooth development of construction projects. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to create a construction hazard source safety management module through secondary development of the Revit platform. At the same time, the Navisworks software is used to simulate the emergency rescue of construction safety accidents and formulate the corresponding emergency management plan. Finally, an engineering example is used to verify the performance of the development management module. The results show that (1) the security management module created in this paper is highly operational, easy to use, and real-time data update, which has important guiding significance for actual construction safety management; (2) simulation of construction safety accidents through Navisworks software can provide emergency management plans for engineering projects.

Stakeholders Awareness of Safety Leadership Through Construction Safety Management System in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Desiderius Viby Indrayana ◽  
Akhmad Suraji
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Management System ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Construction Safety ◽  
Accident Rate ◽  
Safety Management System ◽  
Safety Leadership ◽  
Construction Safety Management

Construction workplace safety has become serious issues among global companies. Improvement on occupational safety and health has been carried out. However, construction still becomes a sector with the highest accident rate. Particularly in Indonesia, construction contributes to 32% of accident rate followed by transportation, forestry, and mining. Main driver to improve safety performance is safety leadership as the frontline part of Construction Safety Management System (CSMS). Since it is a non-technical aspect, stakeholders’ awareness is doubtful. Therefore, this study aims to describe Indonesia construction stakeholders’ awareness of safety leadership as part of CSMS. Questionnaire was distributed to 693 respondents comprises of government, planners, consultants, private contractors, and State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) contractors. The result was analyzed with descriptive statistic to reveal the stakeholders’ level of awareness. SOE contractor has the highest awareness of safety leadership. It is considered as obvious finding since SOE contractor becomes dominant in Indonesia’s construction industry. The majority of big-classified contractors are SOE. Meanwhile, contractors’ BOD is the lowest. The BOD commonly uses managerial leadership to run the company rather than safety leadership. However, the safety leadership should be owned by every stakeholder in construction industry whether they are in high or low management level.

scholarly journals Building Information Modelling (BIM) to Enhance Occupational Safety in Construction Activities: Research Trends Emerging from One Decade of Studies

Buildings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Fargnoli ◽  
Mara Lombardi
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Construction Safety ◽  
Dynamic Visualization ◽  
Building Information Modelling ◽  
Information Modelling ◽  
Building Information

In recent years, the use of new technologies is rapidly transforming the way working activities are managed and carried out. In the construction industry, in particular, the use of Building Information Modelling (BIM) is ever increasing as a means to improve the performances of numerous activities. In such a context, several studies have proposed BIM as a key process to augment occupational safety effectively, considering that the construction industry still remains one of the most hazardous working sectors. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the recent research addressing the use of BIM to improve construction safety. A systematic review was performed considering journal papers that appeared in literature in the last decade. The results showed that the most viable and promising research directions concern knowledge-based solutions, design for safety improvement through BIM solutions, transversal applications of BIM, and dynamic visualization and feedback. The findings of this study also indicated that more practical BIM applications are needed, especially focusing on safety training and education, the use of BIM to augment safety climate and resilience, and the development of quantitative risk analysis to better support safety management. Overall, the study provided a comprehensive research synthesis augmenting knowledge on the role of BIM-based tools in construction safety, which can be considered a reference framework to enhance workers’ safety by means of these new technologies.

scholarly journals Comparison of consumption of fuel and energy resources on the construction site during the construction of low-rise and multi-storey housing construction

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 58-62
Author(s):  
Oleg Korol ◽  
Anastasija Guravleva
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Specific Consumption ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Housing Construction ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
High Rise

A multi-criteria assessment of the choice of a rational option for the construction of low-rise residential buildings, taking into account energy consumption on the construction site, was carried out. The structure of energy consumption in the construction of low-rise and high-rise housing, as well as a comparison of the specific consumption of energy resources in the construction of complex low rise and multi-storey monolithic residential building.

scholarly journals Utilization of Personal Protective Equipment and Associated Factors among Building Construction Workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2019

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meseret Yitayew ◽  
Aklilu Azazeh ◽  
Sofia Kebede ◽  
Addisu Alehegn
Keyword(s):  
Personal Protective Equipment ◽  
Associated Factors ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
Addis Ababa ◽  
Protective Equipment ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional

Abstract BackgroundPersonal Protective Equipment (PPE) is a material, device, equipment or clothing which is used or worn by a worker to protect them from exposure or contact with any harmful material or energy which may cause injury, disease or even death. The use of personal protective equipment is a universal legal requirement to protect workers against occupational injuries and illnesses in their workplace. The international labor office estimates that every year there are some 125 million work-related accidents, 220, 000 of them are fatal. This study assessed personal protective equipment utilization and associated factors among building construction workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2019.MethodsInstitution based cross-sectional survey was conducted on the selected construction sites in April 2019. Data was collected by using pre-tested Amharic questioner from 206 study subjects with a response rate of 100% via face to face interviews. Epi info version 7.1 and SPSS version 25 were used for data cleaning and analysis respectively. Independent variables with P<0.2 were transformed from bivariate to multivariate logistic regression. P<0.05 and was declared as an associated factor.ResultsThis study showed that (38.3%) of construction site workers were used at least one personal protective equipment. Presence of safety training, safety brief before commencing work and the availability of governmental visits were associated factors for utilization of personal protective equipment. Regarding, the type of injuries that occur on a majority of workers were abrasion (35%) and climbing at high was the common cause of injury. ConclusionsPPE utilization and safety measure in construction industries is insignificant and construction site workers are not adapted to take care of themselves as it manifested by low use of PPE. An effort for occupational safety assurance should be put in practice to avoid accidents on building a site with an unconditional commitment to all the projects. Riddance of hazards and deterrence of accidents on-site should be within the proficiency of each site. The client should be involved in safety management coupled with having a great craving for safety.

scholarly journals EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS OF SAFETY MANAGEMENT COMMITMENT AND SAFETY ADMINISTRATION IN THE CONTEXT CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-140
Author(s):  
Nik Fadhilah Nik Him ◽  
Noor Aina Amirah ◽  
Azmi Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Exploratory Factor Analysis ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
Management Commitment ◽  
Safety Attitude

Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was carried out to develop appropriate questionnaire items as research instruments. This study has developed and certified the instruments of safety management commitment and safety administration through the EFA study. It is applied in the context of occupational safety and health management (OSH) of construction industry. This study was divided into two constructs namely Safety Management Commitment (SMC) and Safety Administration (SA) to measure safety attitude. Safety administration construct was measured by safety programs and safety monitoring. Whereas, safety management commitment construct was measured by safety planning and safety management. This study was conducted to evaluate the contractor’s safety management attitude to the safety culture at the construction site. About 100 respondents were selected through simple random sampling to fill out the survey. Based on the reliability test, this study has set an instrument consist of eight items to develop two components for the construct of safety management commitment. While, for the construct of safety administration consist of six items for two components. This setting is based on the internal reliability value (Alpha Cronbach) for measurement of the instrument. The procedure is described in detail to carry out an EFA analysis to develop the instrument’s construct of SMC and SA. For the future, researchers can develop a study by applying instruments thoroughly in various fields of research. Keywords: Safety management commitment, safety administration, occupational safety, construction industry

Safety performance framework at construction site for self-regulation by building developers

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abubakar Sadiq Mahmoud ◽  
Mohd Hamdan Ahmad ◽  
Yahya Mohd Yatim ◽  
Yakubu Aminu Dodo
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Latent Variables ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Construction Safety ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Safety Practices ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Response Feedback ◽  
Distinct Approach

PurposeThis study proposes a self-regulatory framework to enhance safety performance at the construction stage among building developers.Design/methodology/approachExtant literature identified 137 potential factors that influence the construction safety performances of building developers. Focus group discussions and interviews were conducted with 11 panels of experts and professionals. The Relative Importance Index (RII) was used to analyse the response feedback described in a similar paper. In this study, the survey tool used was set up with 40 variables grouped into eight latent variables in the framework, which were agreed and certified as “extremely important” by the panel. Based on random sampling, data were collected from 229 valid respondents. Structural equation modelling (SEM) technique using Smart PLS software was then used to analyse the respondent's feedback.FindingsThe results show that safety administration and processes, effective communication of safety behaviour, significantly influenced safety performance on a construction site with β values of 0.330 and 0.431 along with t values of 3.005 and 2.547 at p < 0.1, respectively. These factors, among others, provide a distinct approach to understanding and improving on-site construction safety. The study findings will potentially benefit building professionals and other stakeholders by improving awareness of safety practices.Research limitations/implicationsThe study may not have covered all possible factors that influence the construction safety performance of building developers. Also, the generalizability and transferability of the research outcome to the construction industry wide use is also limited when reference is made to the characteristics of the research respondents and/or participants. In addition, validation of the framework by five professionals is rather small.Practical implicationsTheoretically, the framework through the identified factors provide a distinct approach to understanding and improving on-site construction safety through voluntary adherence to self-regulatory standard where there are no enforceable laws and regulations to promote safety. The study findings will potentially benefit building professionals and other stakeholders by improving awareness of the health and safety practices of the construction industry.Originality/valueMany research efforts have developed frameworks and models for construction safety. However, the particularity of these frameworks to countries other than Nigeria requires similar research to be conducted to enhance the safety performance of building developers.

scholarly journals Le maître d'oeuvre sur un chantier de construction

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-182
Author(s):  
René Napert ◽  
François Darveau
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Workplace Accidents ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Health And Well Being

The construction industry is a prime area for workplace accidents and as such The Health and Occupational Safety Act devotes an entire chapter to the subject. The objective of suppressing danger at its source has required making the foreman the most important agent for looking after the health and well-being of workers. Based on caselaw, this article focuses on sharpening the notion of the foreman acting in the workplace within the framework of The Health and Occupational Safety Act. Two major aspects are developed : that of the identification of the foreman and his obligations on a construction site.

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