Strategies for Achieving Excellence in Construction Safety Performance

Jaselskis, Edward J.; Anderson, Sonia R.; Russell, Jeffrey S.

doi:10.1061/(asce)0733-9364(1996)122:1(61)

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“…The Construction Industry Institute (CII) ranked safety training and safety incentives and penalties as two of five high-impact zero accident techniques targeted at improving safety performance at the project level (Hinze & Wilson 2000). Jaselskis et al (1996) recommended increasing the number of formal safety meetings with supervisors, and Chi et al (2005) argued that safety equipment is crucial to minimizing and preventing site accidents. Hinze & Wilson (2000) state that safety inspections and jobsite visits are required to improve safety performance.…”

Section: Literature Review: Currents Of Change In Construction Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several safety performance measures have been developed to describe on site H&S performance (Idoro 2011), and to evaluate a firm's safety performance (Jaselskis et al 1996). For example, the experience modification rate and OSHA's reportable incidence rate, as well as the lost workday rate and lost-time rate, have been implemented to evaluate company safety performance over a number of years (Jaselskis et al 1996, Levitt 1976, Idoro 2011.…”

Section: Safety Performance Measures and Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, the experience modification rate and OSHA's reportable incidence rate, as well as the lost workday rate and lost-time rate, have been implemented to evaluate company safety performance over a number of years (Jaselskis et al 1996, Levitt 1976, Idoro 2011. Jaselskis et al (1996) propose quantitative strategies for achieving better safety performance differentiating between company and project levels.…”

Section: Safety Performance Measures and Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Issues of construction health and safety in developing countries: a case of Jordan

Alkilani

Jupp

Sawhney

2013

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The construction industry is widely regarded as one of the most significant in terms of its impact on health and safety (H&S). Recent studies suggest that in developing countries H&S awareness and performance is low. In this paper, the current state of Jordan's on site construction H&S is explored using a two-part investigation. The first part introduces the area of research in a literature based study of on-site safety. The second part presents the findings of a case study on the Jordanian construction industry and its H&S practices. Primary data was collected from field visits, expert interviews and semi-structured questionnaires. Supporting secondary data was collected from archival studies and related research literature. The findings highlight a lack of government commitment exemplified by regulation, policy and legal constraints that limit the operational efficiency of government departments responsible for H&S management, thus hindering the development of good H&S practice. Research results also highlight the key constraints of good H&S practice from the perspective of construction contractors.The study concludes with a discussion of potential solutions to improve H&S performance on construction sites in Jordan.

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Section: Literature Review: Currents Of Change In Construction Healthmentioning

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Section: Safety Performance Measures and Managementmentioning

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Section: Safety Performance Measures and Managementmentioning

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Issues of construction health and safety in developing countries: a case of Jordan

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Jupp

Sawhney

2013

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“…Current general literature on OH&S focus mainly on examination of factors that could lead to high OH&S performance (Fredericks et al 2002;Hinze and Gambatese 2003;Hinze and Wilson 2000;Huang and Hinze 2006;Jaselskis et al 1996;Maloney et al 2007). Equally important are studies dedicated to design issues in relation to OH&S (Coble and Blatter 1999;Gambatese et al 2005;Seo and Choi 2008).…”

Section: Health and Safety Management Within The Construction Industrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health and Safety Management within Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Developing Countries: Study of Contextual Influences

Kheni

Gibb

Dainty

2010

J. Constr. Eng. Manage.

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Considerable attention has been focused on addressing construction health and safety risks in developed economies. Sadly, the same cannot be said of developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where accident figures are extremely high. The aim of this study is to examine the influence of the contextual environment within which Ghanaian construction Small-and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) manage Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S). A questionnaire survey was administered to construction SMEs to better understand the health and safety management practices and associated problems followed up by field interviews to explore key issues identified by the survey. The results of the study highlight the institutional structure for implementing OH&S standards, prevailing economic climate, and extended family culture as challenges to the management of OH&S. The study identifies low literacy levels, low socioeconomic status of workers, owner/managers' ignorance of their OH&S responsibilities, commitment to extended family obligations, and ineffective OH&S administration as key factors limiting the capacity of construction SMEs to manage OH&S effectively. The study concludes that effective institutional structure and an enabling socioeconomic environment are needed to enhance the OH&S performance of SMEs and advocates for more proactive OH&S management that take into consideration the work cultures of SMEs.

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“…In order to prevent possible anomalies from influencing the productivity of the entire workflow, researchers and people from industry have applied different methods involving training, planning, and inspection to prevent human misbehaviors at the front end [14] to stabilize the workflow. Such approaches bring a huge amount of manual work in the busy NPP outage projects and rely heavily on the experience of the management team, which is error-prone and inefficient.…”

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Automatic Crane-Related Workflow Control for Nuclear Plant Outages through Computer Vision and Simulation

Zhang

Tang

Yilmaz

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC)

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Nuclear power plant (NPP) outages involve a large number of maintenance activities with a tight schedule and zero-tolerance for accidents. Outage projects thus need real-time control to ensure safety and productivity. During outages, crane lifting is critical for outage control and risk management. An effective outage control method should monitor detailed interactions between human and workspaces, and streamline the workflows of cranes to control both productivity and risks. Unfortunately, current approaches of outage control rely heavily on tedious and error-prone manual inspection that can hardly achieve detailed spatiotemporal monitoring. This paper presents an automated outage control framework that enables detailed human behavior analysis, automatic comparison of as-planned and actual crane-related operations, and effective decision-making for crane-related workflow control. In this framework, a real-time human tracking algorithm uses 2D/3D imagery to automatically derive the status of workspaces (e.g., waiting, active). Then a change-analysis algorithm detects and diagnoses differences between as-is workflow information against as-planned schedules, and thus enables field managers to implement a close-loop outage control. Preliminary results indicate the potential of this integrated outage control in improving the safety, productivity, and quality of outages, as well as outage project planning.

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Strategies for Achieving Excellence in Construction Safety Performance

Cited by 213 publications

References 10 publications

Issues of construction health and safety in developing countries: a case of Jordan

Issues of construction health and safety in developing countries: a case of Jordan

Health and Safety Management within Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Developing Countries: Study of Contextual Influences

Automatic Crane-Related Workflow Control for Nuclear Plant Outages through Computer Vision and Simulation

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