An occupational safety risk analysis method at construction sites using fuzzy sets

Gürcanlı, Gürkan Emre; Müngen, Uğur

doi:10.1016/j.ergon.2008.10.006

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“…Law et al (2006) identified core safety management factors with respect to safety management systems (SMS) in the field of manufacturing enterprises using the analytic hierarchy process. Gürcanli and Müngen (2009) demonstrated useful parameters to assess workers' risk at a construction site using fuzzy sets.…”

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Port safety evaluation from a captain’s perspective: The Korean experience

Pak

Gi-Tae

et al. 2015

Safety Science

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There are many factors affecting navigational safety in ports, including weather, the characteristics of the channels and vessel types, etc. This paper aims to identify the factors influencing navigational safety in ports and to analyze the extent to which such factors affect the safety of ports from the perspective of ship captains through a real case study. A quantitative analysis is carried out using the data collected from 21 captains who have over 10 years experience in operating ships individually. The identified factors indicate risk implications in ports. A fuzzy analytical hierarchy process is used to evaluate the importance of the factors and to rank the safety levels of the targeted ports in Korea from a captain's perspective. Consequently, among Busan, Ulsan, Gwangyang, Incheon, and Mokpo, Busan is evaluated by captains as the safest port, while Mokpo is the most risky. The research also reveals that it is applicable to use domain expert knowledge when historical failure data is unavailable or difficult to access to evaluate port safety. The result shows great research significance in terms of providing relevant stakeholders, such as port authorities and shipping companies, with an insight into port safety performance and thus facilitating the development of the associated risk control measures.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Port safety evaluation from a captain’s perspective: The Korean experience

Pak

Gi-Tae

et al. 2015

Safety Science

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“…However, "Working at heights" is already a sub-procedure of the "General demolition procedure". If an evaluation is to be made considering the previous studies it can be seen that the rate of accidents in demolition work in the construction sector has increased [11,12]. While falling is the first in the rank of the results of accidents in construction in general, the collapse of buildings is the first in demolition work.…”

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“…It is inferred that the severity of the accidents in demolition work is quite high [11]. In another study by Gürcanlı (2006), he classified accidents in the construction and demolition industries between the years 1968 and 1999 according to witness reports analyzed by science academics [12]. The researchers believe that the accident data obtained from the Turkish Statistical Institute and Social Security Institution are not precise enough.…”

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An Analysis of Occupational Accidents in Demolition Work

Ertaş¹,

Erdoğan²

2017

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The significance of occupational health and safety is becoming better understood every day, and in this respect, countries institute various arrangements and conditions. Measures to be taken to prevent occupational accidents and disease are determined, and laws and regulations are made accordingly. Thousands of accidents happen every year in the construction sector, which is one of the most dangerous in terms of safety. These range from simple cuts and scratches to life changing injuries and death. It is also important to consider demolition work, which is one of the branches of the construction sector and a permanent part of our daily life, according to occupational health and safety. In this article, demolition work is discussed according to occupational health and safety statistics and occupational accidents in demolition are considered. The accidents studied and classified are taken from all 653 occupational accidents in demolition work registered in 1984-2012 in the workers' section of the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). According to the analyzed records, each kind of hazard in demolition work is evaluated with regard to different work procedures and the results are shown.

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“…To deal with the problems of current risk assessment tools, many researchers have developed new methods [45][46][47][48]. One of these methods is the FRAM, which is established in resilience engineering, providing an empirical approach that aims to describe and analyse emerging fault in complex socio-technical systems [43,49].…”

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A Resilience Engineering Approach for Sustainable Safety in Green Construction

Rosa

Franca

Haddad

et al. 2017

J. sustain. dev. energy water environ. syst.

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Sustainable construction is a complex endeavour, involving various stakeholders and resulting in situations that are incompletely described or underspecified. Traditional risk assessment methods require a detailed description of the system and safety, focusing on undesirable outcomes, losses, incidents and accidents. Developing this principle, this research describes a new way to deal with risk assessment in the green construction industry using a resilience engineering method based on the functional resonance analysis method and analytic hierarchy process methodologies. The functional resonance analysis method defines a systemic framework to model complex systems based on combinations of function variabilities during normal work. Therefore, to quantify the outcomes for risk assessment, this method was used together with the analytic hierarchy process in a case study during the modernisation work on the Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro. The results of this case study demonstrate that the combined utilisation of the functional resonance analysis method and analytic hierarchy process can be utilised to recognise situations where developments could potentially be without control, which enables this to be used as a basis for performing indicators or a monitoring system. Furthermore, this combined technique can be used to assess and quantify the performance variabilities that may lead to occupational or environmental accidents, and provide new recommendations about how work processes should function, minimising production losses, incidents and accidents.

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An occupational safety risk analysis method at construction sites using fuzzy sets

Cited by 158 publications

References 14 publications

Port safety evaluation from a captain’s perspective: The Korean experience

Port safety evaluation from a captain’s perspective: The Korean experience

An Analysis of Occupational Accidents in Demolition Work

A Resilience Engineering Approach for Sustainable Safety in Green Construction

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