Fatal Falls in the US Construction Industry, 1990 to 1999

Derr, Jeffrey F.; Forst, Linda; Chen, Hua Yun; Conroy, Lorraine M.

doi:10.1097/00043764-200110000-00004

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“…The construction industry continues to be one of the most hazardous industries in terms of serious injuries, lost working time ( Dong et al , 1995 ;Brenner and Ahern, 2000 ;Derr et al , 2001 ), hospitalization ( Spangenberg et al , 2005a ), disability ( Hannerz et al , 2005 ) and mortality ( T ü chsen et al , 2005 ) and there is a great need to improve occupational safety and Spangenberg health of the employees. In general, there are three main areas in the construction industry: building construction, rail and road construction, and industrial construction.…”

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An injury risk model for large construction projects

Spangenberg

2009

Risk Manag

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A risk management model for prevention of occupational injuries at large construction projects is presented. The model combines the engineering CDIO-phase model (conceive, design, implement or construct, operate) with a socio-cultural approach to safety management. The risk management model is targeting clients / owners of the projects. In this study the model is used for categorization of existing injury prevention measures (personal, structural or cultural change) at large construction projects in Denmark, and for evaluation of the effect. The majority of the injury prevention measures were implemented during the construction phase and belonged to the category structural change (for example, safety walk-rounds and safety audits). The study showed that injury prevention may be improved at future projects by implementing more measures influencing norms and culture at the construction site (for example, the pioneer client concept), and thus increase the diversity of injury prevention measures. Many injury incidents originate from the design phase. Future safety research should focus more on developing injury prevention measures for this phase.

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An injury risk model for large construction projects

Spangenberg

2009

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“…Derr et al (2001) identified that the number of fatal accidents has increased because of falls on the construction site in different subsectors. Also, in the US most accidents are falls from height (Huang and Hinze, 2003;Schaufelberger and Lin, 2014).…”

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Safety Management in Construction Projects

Saeed

2017

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The aim of this research is to identify and evaluate the safety management in construction projects to minimise and control health and safety (H&S) of construction workers. Questionnaire is used to collect a wide range of opinions from experienced professionals working in different construction sites for comparison between them. The reviews of the related literature are the first step in obtaining information from previously related studies.The literature reviews provide a theoretical background about safety management that guided the design of the questionnaire. This research concludes that the construction industry has a high number of fatalities and long-term injuries. This is unacceptable in a modern society and it also makes the industry inefficient, with days lost due to injuries. This research shows that the high rates of accidents are due to several common factors, such as poor construction planning, lack of safety in design, inadequate safety training, worker behaviour, inherent safety H&S risk of construction and lack of knowledge of site rules.

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“…Prevention strategies against injuries are many and different [6,7,10,[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. The meta-analysis results indicate that data relating to fatal injuries show a progressive and constant decrease over a medium-to long-term period.…”

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“…Epidemiological data show that while these interventions are able to reduce the number of injuries in construction, their rate still remains very high [6][7][8].…”

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Meta-analysis of studies examining long-term construction injury rates

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Occupational Medicine

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Background The construction industry is one of the employment sectors with the highest risk of injuries. AimsTo evaluate the injury trend in the construction industry from data published from 1987 to 2010. MethodsAll papers with at least two measurements of injuries within a medium-to long-term period were included. The numbers of fatal and non-fatal injuries were examined in two separate groups: 100 000 workers per year and 200 000 worked hours per year. ResultsAll injuries significantly decreased between the first and the second measurement, with fatal injuries decreasing by 35% and non-fatal ones by 33% in workers/year and by 22% in worked hours/year. There was high heterogeneity among the sources of data for workers/year index (I 2 = 49% for fatal injuries, 99% for non-fatal injuries) but no heterogeneity for worked hours/year index (I 2 = 0). Metaregression analysis showed a significant linear relationship between time and risk reduction for fatal injuries (r = 0.63; P < 0.001; a 6% reduction per year); trend reduction for non-fatal injuries was not related to the time taken between the measurements.Conclusions Fatal injuries have a reduction trend that depends on large interventions, whereas non-fatal injuries are more prone to episodic changes. Furthermore, while the workers/year index allows easier evaluation of the injury rate variation in a single working environment, the worked hours/year index is better at comparing the injury rate variation in different working environments because it reduces the sources of heterogeneity.

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Fatal Falls in the US Construction Industry, 1990 to 1999

Cited by 49 publications

References 12 publications

An injury risk model for large construction projects

An injury risk model for large construction projects

Safety Management in Construction Projects

Meta-analysis of studies examining long-term construction injury rates

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