Many of the activities in construction tend to lead to accident occurrences. The major causation of the accidents in this industry is fall from height. In developing countries such as Thailand, there are too many unsafe conditions in construction activities performed at high elevation. Although, the government enforces safety rules and regulations, safety facilities are still provided inadequat...

The purpose of this paper is to understand the influence of organizational factors on occupational accident causation. A field study was undertaken and focused on the phase of concreting the floors of a residential block in a building project in Brazil. The methodological approach was based on the analysis of carpenters' work practices and of the workers' accounts of minor falls. Observations w...

In the UK construction site dumpers cause more serious accidents than any other type of construction plant. Previous research has indicated that driver behavior plays a pivotal role in the vast majority of these accidents. This study used a paired comparison technique to explore dumper drivers' and subject matter experts' (SMEs') risk perception and its relationship to risk-taking behavior. It ...

Construction accidents with heavy equipment and bad decision making can be based on poor knowledge of the site environment and in both cases may lead to work interruptions and costly delays. Supporting the construction environment with real-time generated three-dimensional (3D) models can help preventing accidents as well as support management by modeling infrastructure assets in 3D. Such model...

The authors discussed on the development of a safety management support system to prevent construction site accidents using working area information. The past disasters on heavy equipment were evaluated to clarify the causes of the accidents, and the functions for support system to prevent collision were defined. The design of the system was proposed with working area from RFID technology that ...

There has been an enormous amount of resources spent on collecting data related to construction accidents but there are very few researches done on analyzing the collected data beyond trend analysis. This research is based on the premise that construction accident reports can be exploited much more than they currently are to obtain valuable information. Analyzing texts in accident reports in ad...

Construction planners on every project are faced with a unique task of spatially organizing site activities with effective space utilization. This is a crucial planning exercise that if effectively rehearsed then can attribute to increased workers productivity, minimized construction accidents, improved delivery of project on time. One of the major issues in traditional project management tools...

Construction safety has been overlooked and the construction industry is now ranked 2 in top fatalities (Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), 2009). As new laws and regulations are being set forth and incentive programs being produced, companies are becoming more aware of safety issues. This report investigates why construction industry safety record is so poor and identifies ways to get the worke...