scholarly journals Investigating the Occupational Health and Safety Practices in High-Rise Building Construction Sites

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 76-81
Author(s):  
Agu Ransford Tetteh ◽  
Ye Liang
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Safety Practices ◽  
High Rise ◽  
High Rise Building

scholarly journals The Impact of Integrating Occupational Safety and Health into the Pre-Construction Phase of Projects: A Literature Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Laila Khodeir ◽  
Youhansen Salahel Dine
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Construction Stage ◽  
Safety Practices ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
The Impact

Construction is a high-risk industry owning to several accidents that take place in construction sites. Fatalities and workplace injuries are a major issue. Construction managers concentrate on profitability as far as cost, quality, and time are concerned. Unless experts end up mindful of safety-related issues, development tasks can never reach their targets. The main aim of this paper is to review the literature that highlights the result of the implementation of occupational health and safety practices in construction sites. The research examines the impact of the implementation on the number of accidents in construction sites and the precautions that should be taken into consideration starting from the pre-construction stage. Previous research suggested that early introduction of occupational safety & health management systems (OHSMS) and elements within the project implementation is an important asset in decision-making. It aims toward the abatement of occupational hazards in the workplace. The paper explores through a literature review the root causes of construction accidents and factors causing risks in construction sites. The research explains OSHMS, and its effects, and how they can be integrated into the pre-construction stage in projects. The impact of the implementation of occupational health and safety practices at construction sites will be discussed as well. The study concluded that due to implementing OHSMS, there is a significant reduction in accidents. In order to improve security and health, safety measures should be included starting from the preparation of contract documents. It is recommended that the managers of top construction companies commit more to safety and health procedures. There is a need to provide funding for the regulatory body that oversees health and safety in the construction industry.

The Occupational Health and Safety Management of Workers in Building Construction Site

2014 ◽  
Vol 501-504 ◽  
pp. 2695-2699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Dong Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Occupational Injury ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Status ◽  
Countermeasures And Suggestions

The work of occupational health and safety about construction industry has increasingly aroused peoples' attention ,so this article puts forward the problems existing in the occupational health and safety management of construction industry as well as the countermeasures and suggestions through the analysis of the construction labours' common occupational injury accident of the present stage in our country and the status quo in the aspects of professional physical,mental health and safety ,which is to develop the workers' way of life on safety,civilization and health.

Optimization of flexible lift processes on high-rise building construction sites

2019 ◽  
Vol 107 ◽  
pp. 102939
Author(s):  
Alireza Jalali Yazdi ◽  
Perry Forsythe ◽  
Alireza Ahmadian Fard Fini ◽  
Mojtaba Maghrebi
Keyword(s):  
Building Construction ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
High Rise ◽  
High Rise Building

IMPROVING OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY BY USING ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES AND BIM

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes Kelm ◽  
Anica Meins-Becker ◽  
Manfred Helmus
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Rfid Technology ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Work Safety ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
The Real Estate

Despite a slight decrease in the number of accidents at work on German construction sites, a large number of accidents on construction sites occurred as a result of the collision of different trades. An important potential is in the optimization of the safety and health by making available predefined information about work safety for all involved trades. The aim of the project is the application of the BIM-method and the use of RFID-technology and Augmented Reality to improve work safety in the real estate and construction industry. It has to identify, define, and standardize information relevant to work safety so that they can be used for prevention-measures with Building Information Modeling (BIM). To do so, a process map was developed to map all relevant occupational health and safety processes during the lifecycle phases of a building. Therefore, all work safety-relevant processes have to be identified and defined. Furthermore, a demonstrator was developed in order to show possibilities like the usage of Augmented Reality (AR) and a commercially available tablet with a web app, in combination with Bluetooth beacons and RFID technology, based on a common data base. This will lead to the possibility of cross-company planning regarding work safety-relevant processes with BIM as well as the optimization of work safety in additional use of AutoID-Technologies.

scholarly journals Occupational Health and Safety Practices Assessment in Damietta Port, North Egypt

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-27
Author(s):  
Mokhtar S. Beheary ◽  
Ahmed Abdelaal ◽  
Samira M. Matar
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Safety System ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Safety Practices ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
And Control ◽  
Different Sources

Occupational, health and safety system (OHS) is a sensitive item for each organization. Health and safety is part of the business, just like production and quality. Therefore, it should be managed in the same way as other aspects of business. This study investigated the safety culture and behavior between the labors, assess the implemented safety system and evaluate the surround environmental workplace. Field data were collected from different sources, i.e. questionnaire, interview, personal observation and documentary evidence. From collected results, the occupational health and safety measures implemented in some workplaces are not sufficient and some workers are dissatisfied with the current occupational health and safety measures. Health and safety should be the concern of each worker in the organization and this can only be achieved when serious training and education is carried out. Also, monitoring, inspection and evaluate existing health and safety measures on regular basis is very important for improvement and control the risk to achieve occupational health for the port man-power.

scholarly journals The Measurement of Proaktive and Reaktive Performance towards Occupational Health and Safety Program

2021 ◽  
Vol 921 (1) ◽  
pp. 012081
Author(s):  
H Masiku ◽  
H Parung ◽  
R U Latief ◽  
R Arifuddin
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
T Test ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
F Test ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Performance Variables ◽  
High Rise ◽  
High Rise Building ◽  
Analysis Technique

Abstract The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of proactive and reactive performance on indicators of the application of OHS in high-rise building construction. The data used in this study were obtained from a questionnaire (primary) and several observations and direct interviews with employees in 20 types of high-rise building projects in Indonesia. The analysis technique used is multiple regression analysis using hypothesis testing, namely the F test and t test. The results showed that simultaneously and partially the independent variables consisting of proactive performance (X1) and reactive performance (X2) had a significant effect on the variable construction K3 program (Y). From the ANOVA or F test, a significant number (Sig) (0.037) is obtained which is below 0.05 and the Fcount is 11.570 where the F count is greater than F table, F table is 3.84. These results indicate that the regression model is feasible to be used to predict the proactive performance and reactive performance variables together to influence the performance of the OHS culture of high-rise building construction. Seeing the performance points of construction project employees can be influenced by many other points from the results of the T Test calculation where the competence of workers obtains T results of 3.098 or the highest among others so that with this we can say that worker competence is a critical factor in improving cultural performance.

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