Costs of Construction Accidents and Factors Affecting The Occupational Safety Ma

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-13
Author(s):  
Yosra TAMMAM
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Construction Accidents

Measuring the Causes of Saudi Arabian Construction Accidents: Management and Concerns

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-14
Author(s):  
Majed M Moosa ◽  
Leo P. Oriet ◽  
Abdulrahman M Khamaj
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Saudi Arabian ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
New Employees ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
Construction Companies ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Construction Accidents

Introduction: Research indicate that construction site accidents are a global concern, and rates are rapidly increasing. In developing countries such as Saudi Arabia, safety issues are frequently ignored, and little is known about their causes. Objectives: This study aimed to shed light on factors causing accidents in Saudi Arabian construction companies. Methods: An online detailed survey, using Google Form, of accident features was distributed randomly to potential employees in 35 construction companies in Saudi Arabia, where one of the top administrators or safety officers were required to respond to the survey. It was conducted from 1st June to 31st August, 2013. The safety practices and perceptions of accident causes were assessed. Results: The response rate was 63%. Over half of the surveyed organizations encountered all of the selected accident types. While 19 (86%) of the construction companies maintained the equipment regularly, 15 (68%) had regular maintenance staff and 13 (59%) inspected the equipment before use. Although 18 (82%) of the workers were supplied with personal protective equipment (PPE), only 12 (55%) emphasized its use and offered site orientation for new employees.  In the last part of the survey, respondents were requested to rate 25 factors affecting safety performance at the construction sites on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the most important. The three most important factors of poor safety performance were the firm's top leaders, a lack of training, and the reckless operation of equipment. Conclusion: Changing attitudes of surrounding safety culture have the potential to significantly improve safety outcomes in the Saudi Arabian construction industry. Two Saudi Arabian corporations, Saudi Aramco and Saudi Chevron Petrochemical provide a positive model for increasing construction safety in the country, but there is a paucity of industry-level data. Further scholarly attention is strongly indicated.

scholarly journals A C-BiLSTM Approach to Classify Construction Accident Reports

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (17) ◽  
pp. 5754
Author(s):  
Jinyue Zhang ◽  
Lijun Zi ◽  
Yuexian Hou ◽  
Da Deng ◽  
Wenting Jiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Health Administration ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Domain Experts ◽  
Risk Management Strategies ◽  
Construction Accidents

The construction sector is widely recognized as having the most hazardous working environment among the various business sectors, and many research studies have focused on injury prevention strategies for use on construction sites. The risk-based theory emphasizes the analysis of accident causes extracted from accident reports to understand, predict, and prevent the occurrence of construction accidents. The first step in the analysis is to classify the incidents from a massive number of reports into different cause categories, a task which is usually performed on a manual basis by domain experts. The research described in this paper proposes a convolutional bidirectional long short-term memory (C-BiLSTM)-based method to automatically classify construction accident reports. The proposed approach was applied on a dataset of construction accident narratives obtained from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration website, and the results indicate that this model performs better than some of the classic machine learning models commonly used in classification tasks, including support vector machine (SVM), naïve Bayes (NB), and logistic regression (LR). The results of this study can help safety managers to develop risk management strategies.

The neglected millions: the global state of aquaculture workers’ occupational safety, health and well-being

2019 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Watterson ◽  
Mohamed Fareed Jeebhay ◽  
Barbara Neis ◽  
Rebecca Mitchell ◽  
Lissandra Cavalli
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Marine Aquaculture ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Work Related

A scoping project was funded by the Food and Agriculture Organization in 2017 on the health and safety of aquaculture workers. This project developed a template covering basic types of aquaculture production, health and safety hazards and risks, and related data on injuries and occupational ill health, regulations, social welfare conditions, and labour and industry activity in the sector. Profiles using the template were then produced for key aquaculture regions and nations across the globe where information could be obtained. These revealed both the scale and depth of occupational safety and health (OSH) challenges in terms of data gaps, a lack of or poor risk assessment and management, inadequate monitoring and regulation, and limited information generally about aquaculture OSH. Risks are especially high for offshore/marine aquaculture workers. Good practice as well as barriers to improving aquaculture OSH were noted. The findings from the profiles were brought together in an analysis of current knowledge on injury and work-related ill health, standards and regulation, non-work socioeconomic factors affecting aquaculture OSH, and the role of labour and industry in dealing with aquaculture OSH challenges. Some examples of governmental and labour, industry and non-governmental organisation good practice were identified. Some databases on injury and disease in the sector and research initiatives that solved problems were noted. However, there are many challenges especially in rural and remote areas across Asia but also in the northern hemisphere that need to be addressed. Action now is possible based on the knowledge available, with further research an important but secondary objective.

Relative Importance of Factors Affecting Construction Hazards in the Design Phase

2013 ◽  
Vol 330 ◽  
pp. 862-866
Author(s):  
Seyyed Shahab Hosseinian ◽  
Zahra Jabbarani Torghabeh ◽  
Aziruddin Ressang
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Design Phase ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Index Method ◽  
Safety Level ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Importance Index ◽  
Construction Accidents ◽  
Construction Hazards

dentifying the root causes of construction accidents has indicated that not only contractors but designers and architectures are capable of influencing construction workers safety. The aim of this study is to investigate and prioritize factors affecting construction hazards in the design phase. To achieve the aim of this study, a questionnaire survey was distributed among respondents randomly selected from construction sites within Malaysia. Relative Importance Index method was used to prioritize factors in order of level of effect on construction hazards. The results indicated that Lack of designers safety knowledge, Lack of designers knowledge about construction processes and Late involvement of constructors in the design process have the highest level of effect while Lack of safety organizations which evaluates the safety level of design and Few application of components' prefabrication have the lowest level of effect on hazards in the design phase of construction projects.

scholarly journals Factors associated with the severity of construction accidents: The case of South Australia

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 32-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jantanee Dumrak ◽  
Sherif Mostafa ◽  
Imriyas Kamardeen ◽  
Raufdeen Rameezdeen
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Body Location ◽  
Day Of The Week ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Construction Accidents

While the causes of accidents in the construction industry have been extensively studied, severity remains an understudied area. In order to provide more evidence for the currently limited number of empirical investigations on severity, this study analysed 24,764 construction accidents reported during 2002-11 in South Australia. A conceptual model developed through literature uses personal characteristics such as age, experience, gender and language. It also employs work-related factors such as size of organization, project size and location, mechanism of accident and body location of the injury. These were shown to discriminate why some accidents result in only a minor severity while others are fatal. Factors such as time of accident, day of the week and season were not strongly associated with accident severity. When the factors affecting severity of an accident are well understood, preventive measures could be developed specifically to those factors that are at high risk.

scholarly journals Nature of Occupational Incidents among Electrical Contractors

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pouya Gholizadeh ◽  
Behzad Esmaeili
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Health Administration ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Statistical Probability ◽  
Construction Accidents ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Electrical Contractors ◽  
Fatal Injuries

Electrical contractors have experienced a rise in occupational fatalities in recent years. In 2017, electrical contractors also had the second highest number of non-fatal injuries among specialty trade contractors. Identifying statistically significant dependencies between these catastrophic outcomes and a handful of well-defined contributing factors in construction accidents offers a first step in mitigating the risks of construction accidents in this trade. Therefore, this study used methodologies of descriptive and quantitative statistics to identify the contributing factors most affecting occupational accident outcomes among electrical contracting enterprises, given an accident occurred. Accident reports were collected from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s fatality and catastrophe database. To ensure the reliability of the data, the team manually codified more than 600 incidents through a comprehensive content analysis using injury-classification standards. Inclusive of both fatal and non-fatal injuries, the results showed that most accidents happened in nonresidential buildings, new construction, and small projects (i.e., $50,000 or less). The main source of injuries manifested in parts and materials (46%), followed by tools, instruments, and equipment (19%), and structure and surfaces (16%). The most frequent types of injuries were fractures (31%), electrocutions (27%), and electrical burns (14%); the main injured body parts were upper extremities (25%), head (23%), and body system (18%). Among non-fatal cases, falls (37%), exposure to electricity (36%), and contact with objects (19%) caused most injuries; among fatal cases, exposure to electricity was the leading cause of death (50%), followed by falls (28%) and contact with objects (19%). The analysis also investigated the impact of several accident factors on the degree of injuries and found significant effects from such factors such as project type, source of injury, cause of injuries, injured part of body, nature of injury, and event type. In other words, the statistical probability of a fatal accident—given an accident occurrence—changes significantly based on the degree of these factors. Beyond these outcomes, the described content-analysis methodology contributes to the accident-analysis body of knowledge by providing a framework for codifying data from accident reports to facilitate future analysis and modeling attempts (e.g., developing logistic regression models) to subsequently mitigate more injuries in other fields.

scholarly journals The Forensic Engineers Relationship to Manufacturers in Product Cases

1992 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Ziernicki
Keyword(s):  
Indirect Cost ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
Health Administration ◽  
The Third ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Heavy Construction ◽  
Construction Accidents

Accidents are the third largest cause of death in America, taking 140,000 lives per year. Construction accidents kill about 1000 workers every year. There were nearly 640,000 construction injuries in 1989. Accidents related to highway and heavy construction account for a third of all construction fatalities according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). OSHA inspectors handled 45,000 investigations in 1990, about half of them in the construction industry. Automotive accidents take 44,000 lives a year. The direct and indirect cost of all automotive accidents is approximately $60 billion dollars per year. Many of the product accidents will result in civil law suits. Many will result in litigation against the designer and manufacturer.

scholarly journals Impact of Technical, Organizational and Human Factors on Accident Rate of Small-Sized Enterprises

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-144
Author(s):  
Marta Niciejewska ◽  
Adam Idzikowski ◽  
Katarína Lestyánszka Škurková
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Accident Rate ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Technical Factors ◽  
Production Company ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The paper focuses on the analysis of the impact of technical, organizational and human factors on accident rate in small-sized enterprises. The research was carried out using the authors’ questionnaire. The results were verified using the method of direct interview with elements of observation. The results were compared with the trends prevailing in enterprises of EU countries. The respondents, i.e. production company workers, indicate technical factors as those which most significantly affect the occurrence of accidents at work. However, the assessment of the factors changes with the age of the respondents. Older workers, more often than younger employees, indicate the ones related to man or work organization as the most important factors affecting accidents at work and, consequently, the level of occupational safety. The presented results are a part of a larger whole project the authors of this paper are working on.

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