Fatal traffic accidents in the Turkish construction industry

Müngen, Uğur; Gürcanlı, Gürkan Emre

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2005.06.002

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“…Validation of the results was carried out, and by using the proposed model, it was found that the risk of falling from height is the most probable risk incident. This nding was in line with the past studies such as Amiri et al [33], Liu and Tsai [34], Halvani et al [35], Gurcanli and Mungen [36], Zeng et al [37], Im et al [38], M ungen and G urcanli [39], and Larsson and Field [40]. Moreover, considering severity, the risk of falling from height was also found to be the most harmful accident in this research.…”

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Evaluation of Safety Risks in Construction Using Fuzzy Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FFMEA)

2016

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The construction industry is one of the most dangerous environments to work in. For this reason, safety-related risk analysis is one of the most signi cant tasks that has to be undertaken when managing major construction projects. A combination of fuzzy logic and Failure Mode and E ects Analysis (FMEA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), and Analytical Hierarchy Process-Data Envelopment Analysis (AHP-DEA) was applied to improve the process of managing safety risks. Two di erent types of large-scale construction projects were also considered as case studies. It was found that the risk of falling from a height is the most signi cant risk in both types of project. Moreover, the factors intensifying the risk of injury in the workers who fall were found to be ignoring safety and lack of personal protective equipment as well as lack of appropriate training for construction workers. It was also concluded that the framework is applicable to all construction sites, covers all safety aspects, and has valid results.

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Evaluation of Safety Risks in Construction Using Fuzzy Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FFMEA)

2016

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“…When the truck suddenly stops or when it is moving through rough terrain, workers are exposed to the risk of falling off the vehicle. Indifference of site managers or other technical staff to this hazardous situation reflects the low level of safety awareness in the construction industry 28) .…”

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“…In Turkey also detailed investigation on construction equipment-related accidents and traffic accidents on construction sites may be regarded as an untouched field of research. However, researchers have begun to focus on the industry and the classification of the accidents 2,28) .…”

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Construction Equipment and Motor Vehicle Related Injuries on Construction Sites in Turkey

Gürcanlı

Müngen

Akad³

2008

Ind Health

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Research on occupational accidents on construction sites in Turkey is very few. Moreover, research on motor vehicle and equipment accidents also do not exist. Investigation in the scope of this study shows that after falls and contact with electricity, accidents involving heavy equipment and motor vehicles rank third and fourth, respectively. This study aims to reveal the characteristics of these types of accidents, deduct the prominent causes that lead to fatalities as well as permanent disabilities using the present data. With the aid of obtained results, recommendations are made for safety experts on how to derive data from insufficient sources in Turkey and to evaluate these data for prevention and mitigation of the risks that construction workers are exposed to. 168 fatal and 38 non-fatal traffic accident-caused incidents as well as 206 fatal and 97 non-fatal construction equipment accidents, which were selected from official statistics and expert reports, were taken into consideration. Analysis and classification of these accidents were done according to the way they happened, the type of construction site and the occupation of the victims. Moreover, the leading causes of fatal and non-fatal injuries, to which drivers, operators and co-operators are exposed, are presented. Critical findings concerning prominent ways of occurrence, type of construction work and occupation are presented; and a number of measures for reducing the present risks are suggested. Some approaches for analysing relevant data are proposed for further research.

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“…To fulfill this step we combined the proposals from some authors [16,17]. The types of accidents to be considered in our model are:  Lost buoyancy in water or other liquid in which the person is in due to the activity;…”

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A Fuzzy Model for Estimating Accidents Possibility of Occurrence in the Construction Industry

Pinto¹

2019

EOIJ

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Quantify or, more generally, estimate the possibility of occurrence of occupational accidents is a decisive step in any occupational risk assessment process. Due to the lack of historic information in the construction industry (accident data collection and recording are incipient and insufficient) and the lack of practical and acurate tools to estimate/quantify the risks of occuring work accidents we need a more systematic and rigorous approach for the construction industry.This work purpose is the definition of a practical Ocuppational Accidents Possibility of occurrence (OAP) model, which proposes a fuzzy approach to determine the posssibility of occurrence of accidents modes. The OAP includes 4 main steps: (1) identification of accidents´modes; (2) definition of a checklist with questions related to factors that may affect the accidents possibility; (3) assessment (rating) of each factor using a fuzzy linguistic variable "adequacy"; (4) aggregation of the rated factors per each mode of accident. The factors will be evaluated by safety experts, from observable conditions or existing data on the construction site. The proposed fuzzy rating evaluation process is done with a linguistic variable that allows measuring the level of inadequacy of the factors. We believe our proposed OAP model contributes to advances in determining the quality of the overall occupational risk assessment.

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Fatal traffic accidents in the Turkish construction industry

Cited by 40 publications

References 26 publications

Evaluation of Safety Risks in Construction Using Fuzzy Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FFMEA)

Evaluation of Safety Risks in Construction Using Fuzzy Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FFMEA)

Construction Equipment and Motor Vehicle Related Injuries on Construction Sites in Turkey

A Fuzzy Model for Estimating Accidents Possibility of Occurrence in the Construction Industry

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