Causes of Accident at Construction Sites in Bangladesh

Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Bangladeshi construction industry suffers more safety issues than other developing countries in the world. Among many of these, accidents at the construction site go far beyond and shape a horrific figure of death every year. The aims of this study are to identify and prioritize the causes of accidents. This study also analyses and discusses causes of accident at the construction site in Bangladesh. A widespread literature review and open discussion took place to identify the causes and design the questionnaire. The questionnaire-based survey was used to elicit the attitude of four stakeholders such as workers, owners, consultants and contractors towards the causes of accident. Mean and relative importance index (RII) were used to determine the rank of causes, and Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) 23 was used to perform the data validation test. This study identifies 77 causes under 14 major groups and ranked them based on the mean and RII. The top five major groups of causes are management-, consultant-, technology-, labour- and contractor-related causes. The top five causes are unawareness of safety-related issue, lack of personal protective equipment, lack of safety eliminating/avoiding design, unfit equipment, lack of knowledge and training on equipment. This study will help the project participants and authorities to know and understand the various characteristics and linkage of causes of construction accidents to improve the construction safety management. It contributes to the body of knowledge, as it reveals for the first time the causes of acci dents in the Bangladeshi construction industry.</jats:p>

Exploring Fatalities and Injuries in Construction by Considering Thermal Comfort Using Uncertainty and Relative Importance Analysis

“…This study analyzed types of injury and fatal accidents affected by OEQ based on thermal comfort. Most of the earlier works in previous research focused on a specific weather condition, such as those in summer and winter seasons [ 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 ]. However, the results of this study showed that injury and fatal accidents in the spring and autumn seasons have greater probability than those of the summer and winter seasons.…”

“…A prevention method was presented to reduce injuries and incidents. Ahmed, 2019 [35] The author sought to identify the causes of accidents at construction sites in Bangladesh and established the interests of workers, owners, consultants and contractors through questionnaire surveys.…”

“…As indicated in Table 1 , previous research in this area falls into three categories: (i) research related to the causes of construction disasters [ 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 ], (ii) research related to an analysis of the weather impact on injury and fatal accidents in construction [ 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , ...…”

“…Studies related to OEQ found that injury and fatal accidents occurred due to different temperature conditions and seasonal changes [ 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 ]. Earlier work analyzed the causes of injury and fatal accidents in relation to specific weather conditions, such as those in the summer and winter seasons [ 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 ]. Other research analyzed ‘falls’ and ‘slips’ as frequent types of accident which can be affected by weather conditions [ 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 ].…”

Extracting Domain Knowledge Elements of Construction Safety Management: Rule-Based Approach Using Chinese Natural Language Processing

“…Meanwhile, the construction industry is increasingly becoming more knowledgeintensive (Nepal and Staub-French 2016) because the execution of construction activities requires higher levels of domain knowledge (specialized expert knowledge) (Serpella et al 2014). Many safety accidents have occurred due to the lack of domain knowledge (Ahmed 2019;Wong et al 2016). An elementary fragment of domain knowledge is called a domain knowledge element (DKE) (Durlach and Lesgold 2012).…”