Insidious Safety Threat of Fatigue: Investigating Construction Workers’ Risk of Accident Due to Fatigue

Namian, Mostafa; Taherpour, Farshid; Ghiasvand, Ebrahim; Türkan, Yelda

doi:10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0002180

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“…In this study, the criteria that were assessed to evaluate safety support and communication are the following: (1) explicitly communicating safety commitments and support to construction workers, (2) workers having a concise understanding of their managers' safety expectations, (3) providing formal and informal safety feedback frequently enough to workers, (4) workers being open to the provided safety feedback by managers, (5) considering enough safety incentives to strengthen the construction worker's safety performance, and (6) assessing to what extent workers communicate their safety needs and concerns.…”

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Are Construction Managers from Mars and Workers from Venus? Exploring Differences in Construction Safety Perception of Two Key Field Stakeholders

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Persisting high rates of worksite accidents and injuries in construction projects indicate the urge to investigate the root causes and revisit safety practices in this industry. Consonance in perceptions and safety approaches has been identified as a fundamental factor in boosting projects’ safety. Discrepancies between how different elements of construction safety are perceived and handled by the key stakeholders, namely managers and workers, could be detrimental to worksite safety. This research studied how, if at all, the perception of four key construction safety components, including 33 sets of pairwise questions, is different in the lens of managers from workers. To explore safety perceptions, 133 construction professionals in the United States participated in the study and expressed their perceptions toward their own and counterparts’ (1) safety knowledge, (2) safety culture and commitment, (3) safety performance, and (4) safety support and communication. The results indicated that massive gaps in safety perceptions do exist between the construction managers and workers (26 out of 33 areas), and the magnitude varies for different safety elements. In all four categories, both managers and workers perceived a superior safety position for themselves and inferior for their counterparts. Further investigations revealed that the common ground between managers and workers is their consensus on proper communication and safety training as the key solutions to address such discrepancies. Construction safety professionals and practitioners can benefit from the results of this study to establish and implement strategies to foster communication and provide more effective safety training to bridge the existing gaps in the perception of safety by managers and workers.

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Section: Safety Support and Communicationmentioning

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“…To this end, a myriad of research has been conducted in different countries and various project types. Among them, the involvement of different stakeholders (i.e., managers and workers) in the safety management programs is a prominent factor [4][5][6][7]. Different stakeholders can have different perceptions when it comes to safety [8].…”

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Are Construction Managers from Mars and Workers from Venus? Exploring Differences in Construction Safety Perception of Two Key Field Stakeholders

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“…To guarantee the continuity of the construction process, Liu and Tao (2015) proposed a MOO model for the optimization of the purchasing, inventory, and delivery from the perspective of construction partners in a construction supply chain. As presented by Naji et al (2021), the installation of prefabrication buildings affected the building performance, and an evolutionary algorithm-based MOO approach was developed to achieve a better understanding of the installation for the more sustainable buildings.…”

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“…Furthermore, problems, such as a large number of stakeholders, including designers, clients, contractors, transporters, involved in the supply chains of prefabricated building projects and the complex distributed supply chain models, make the prefabrication building construction projects impossible to be managed without considering multi-stage cooperation and objectives simultaneously Yuan et al, 2021). (Naji et al, 2021)…”

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“…A GA-based evacuation optimization approach was proposed by Abdelghany et al (2014) to search for the optimal evacuation plans for visitors, and the results proved that the approach could provide better solutions compared to conventional evacuation plans without the integration of MOO methods. The incorporation of MOO, combined with simulation methods, has been studied by many researchers, and the findings demonstrate that the incorporation of MOO into the evacuation management Chapter 2 -Literature review can achieve an improved and balanced efficiency and safety of evacuation operations (Narzisi et al, 2006;Yuan and Han, 2010).…”

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I have to say deepest gratitude only goes to my supervisor Prof. Zhang Limao for his sincere guidance and kind support throughout the research. After the completion of my undergraduate study, I had worked for several years, and I lost. I lost my motivation and didn't know what should I do next. I had tried part-time jobs for years, and out of those experiences, I thought being a teacher may be the right thing for me. I believed I was good at learning and I loved sharing my knowledge and communicating with others.That's why I decided to get back to school, pursuing a doctoral degree so that I could be a teacher one day. To be honest, however, I was not that confident. It took courage for me to make this decision, and I would try my best without doubt, but I also acknowledge that I had left school for too many years, and I wasn't very sure if I could catch up and become a qualified doctoral candidate in time. So, firstly, I have to thank prof. Zhang for giving me the opportunity to be a doctoral student here. Secondly, it was his demanding and supportive supervision that really changed me. I had to admit that I was kind of stressed at the beginning, for that I was way behind from the schedule. I had too much to learn, and it was my own responsibility to catch up in time. However, prof. Zhang tutored me with unbelievable patience. I cannot even remember how many times and how much time prof. Zhang had spent to teaching me even if I made the stupidest mistakes. I just know that I may achieve nothing if without his great patience and valuable, inspiring, and professional tutorial. What's more, he sets an example of being a good supervisor for me. He not only helps me become a qualified doctoral student, but also his professionalism, dedication, and meticulous attitude enlighten me of what a great supervisor is and make me determined to be one as he does. Now, I know how, I am confident and I am resolved that I will become a qualified professor.Surely, I am also deeply grateful to my family, my parents and my beloved sister.You are always there to support. Thank you.

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A continuous concrete vibration method for robots based on machine vision with integrated spatial features

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Insidious Safety Threat of Fatigue: Investigating Construction Workers’ Risk of Accident Due to Fatigue

Cited by 36 publications

References 110 publications

Are Construction Managers from Mars and Workers from Venus? Exploring Differences in Construction Safety Perception of Two Key Field Stakeholders

Are Construction Managers from Mars and Workers from Venus? Exploring Differences in Construction Safety Perception of Two Key Field Stakeholders

Multi-objective optimization for improved tunneling project management from planning to operation stages

A continuous concrete vibration method for robots based on machine vision with integrated spatial features

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