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With the rapid development of construction projects, more and more engineering corruption problems have emerged. Therefore, this paper proposes a SEIR (susceptible-exposed-infected-recovered) based corruption model to better understand the propagation process of corruption cases in construction projects. In this model, the data samples are collected from the 2018 Engineering Corruption Case Judgment Document, the propagation parameters are obtained through actual case analysis with the help of complex networks, the change process and key influencing factors of actual nodes in engineering corruption cases are simulated by Python. The study results indicate that the personnel conforms to the "4-9 transmission law," in which the early stage is a period of high incidence of corruption cases. The network of corruption cases is somewhat vulnerable, and its spread is about minus 8 times the change in crackdown rate and 10 times the change in infection rate. The variation range of the susceptible population S and the removed person R in the propagation simulation curve can predict the relationship between corruption infection rate and crackdown rate, which can provide theoretical guidance for preventing the occurrence of corruption.
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Simulação por Computador , Indústria da Construção , Comportamento Criminoso , Indústria da Construção/legislação & jurisprudência , Indústria da Construção/normas , Engenharia/normas , Humanos , JulgamentoRESUMO
Based on the engineering practice of large cross-section highway tunnel, this paper reveals the space-time coordinated evolution law of the construction mechanical characteristics and deformation distribution of the support structure in the construction by half bench CD method through field test. At the same time, the mechanical response calculation model of the supporting structure in the partial excavation is constructed, and the mechanical characteristics of the support structure in the partial excavation process are analyzed by above mechanical calculation model. Then, the mechanical and deformation distribution of the feet-reinforcement bolt in the steel frame-foot-reinforcement bolt combined support system is analyzed under different levels of surrounding rock load and different structural parameters of the feet-reinforcement bolt. The research results show that: (1) The internal force of the supporting structure changes most obviously during the excavation of Part â , Part â ¡ and Part â ¢, and the internal force of the support structure gradually tends to be stable after a slight increase in the excavation of Part â £ and Part â ¤; (2) The horizontal deformation and vertical deformation of the support structure mainly occur in the excavation process of Part â , Part â ¡ and Part â ¢, and the excavation of Part â £ and â ¤ has little effect on the deformation response of the structure. The vertical displacement of the supporting structure is larger than the horizontal displacement, and the dynamic response of the temporary diaphragm structure during tunnel excavation is shrinkage-expansion-shrinkage-expansion; (3) The bending strain of each measuring point decreases with the increase of the distance from the loading point, and the bending strain of section 1 and section 2 is much larger than that of the other three sections; (4) With the increase of the angle, the section position with strain close to 0 gradually moves to the deeper position of the bolt, and the axial strain of each section on the bolt gradually changes from positive strain to negative strain.
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Indústria da Construção/normas , Materiais de Construção/análise , Engenharia/métodos , Modelos Teóricos , Estresse Mecânico , Suporte de Carga , HumanosRESUMO
En esta guía se describen las recomendaciones para el diseño y la construcción de viviendas hasta de dos niveles, con el objetivo de garantizar que sean seguras, habitables, accesibles, de fácil mantenimiento y reparación, dentro de un entorno urbano, suburbano y rural. Estas recomendaciones toman en cuenta los criterios técnicos actuales contemplados en las Normas Oficiales Mexicanas, en las Normas Técnicas Complementarias y en las buenas prácticas aplicadas en el país. Por otro lado, se hace referencia a las obligaciones y responsabilidades de las autoridades y los involucrados que participan en la construcción de vivienda, con el propósito de asegurar el cumplimiento de la normatividad. El documento brinda recomendaciones aplicables a las regiones del país con mayor peligro ante fenómenos geológicos e hidrometeorológicos, especialmente sismos, huracanes y vientos, con el propósito de proporcionar información clara y adaptable a cada región. Es importante el conocimiento sobre los peligros y riesgos, así como el comportamiento estructural de las edificaciones, por lo que se recomienda ampliamente a los usuarios revisar con regularidad las publicaciones del CENAPRED, en beneficio de los involucrados en la construcción de viviendas y de las personas que las habitan.
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Indústria da Construção/normas , Materiais de Construção , Qualidade Habitacional , MéxicoRESUMO
China's construction industry developed rapidly and safety production has become a vital issue. Improving the safety behavior of construction workers is an important measure to effectively decrease construction safety accidents. At present, a New Generation of Construction Workers (NGCWs) born after 1980 has gradually become the main force of construction companies in China and the special group characteristics coming from the intergenerational difference may make them behave differently in safety-related activities, therefore, it is very important to study how to promote their safety behavior. This paper aimed to explore the influencing mechanism of job satisfaction on the safety behavior of NGCWs and examine the mediating role of safety knowledge sharing and work engagement. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling analysis were applied to test the theoretical model. Empirical research results indicated that job satisfaction can effectively promote safety behavior through safety knowledge sharing and work engagement. Safety knowledge sharing plays a complete mediating role between job satisfaction and safety compliance behavior, as well as between job satisfaction and safety participation behavior. Moreover, work engagement plays a complete mediating role between job satisfaction and safety participation behavior, which can provide valuable management references for China's construction companies to strengthen their safety behavior.
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Indústria da Construção , Satisfação no Emprego , Comportamento de Redução do Risco , Segurança , Engajamento no Trabalho , China , Indústria da Construção/normas , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Segurança/estatística & dados numéricos , Inquéritos e QuestionáriosRESUMO
Occupational Health and Safety (OHS)-related injuries are vexing problems for construction projects in developing countries, mostly due to poor managerial-, governmental-, and technical safety-related issues. Though some studies have been conducted on OHS-associated issues in developing countries, research on this topic remains scarce. A review of the literature shows that presenting a predictive assessment framework through machine learning techniques can add much to the field. As for Malaysia, despite the ongoing growth of the construction sector, there has not been any study focused on OHS assessment of workers involved in construction activities. To fill these gaps, an Ensemble Predictive Safety Risk Assessment Model (EPSRAM) is developed in this paper as an effective tool to assess the OHS risks related to workers on construction sites. The developed EPSRAM is based on the integration of neural networks with fuzzy inference systems. To show the effectiveness of the EPSRAM developed, it is applied to several Malaysian construction case projects. This paper contributes to the field in several ways, through: (1) identifying major potential safety risks, (2) determining crucial factors that affect the safety assessment for construction workers, (3) predicting the magnitude of identified safety risks accurately, and (4) predicting the evaluation strategies applicable to the identified risks. It is demonstrated how EPSRAM can provide safety professionals and inspectors concerned with well-being of workers with valuable information, leading to improving the working environment of construction crew members.
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Indústria da Construção , Saúde Ocupacional , Medição de Risco , Acidentes de Trabalho/prevenção & controle , Indústria da Construção/métodos , Indústria da Construção/normas , Humanos , Malásia , Local de Trabalho/normasRESUMO
Industrialization has been widely regarded as a sustainable construction method in terms of its environmental friendliness. However, existing studies mainly consider the single impact of greenhouse gas emissions or material consumption in the construction process of industrialized buildings, and pay less attention to ecological pollution and community interest, which leads to an insufficient understanding. There is an urgent need to systematically carry out accurate assessment of comprehensive construction environmental impact within industrialized building processes. Various methods, including face-to-face interviews, field research and building information modeling (BIM), were used for data collection. Four categories selected for the study included resource consumption, material loss, ecological pollution, and community interest. A life cycle assessment (LCA) model, namely input-process-output model (IPO), is proposed to analyze the construction environmental impact of the standard layer of industrialized buildings from four life cycle stages, namely, transportation, stacking, assembly and cast-in-place. The monetization approach of willingness to pay (WTP) was applied to make a quantitative comparison. Results reveal that the assembly stage has the largest impact on the environment at 66.13% among the four life cycle stages, followed by transportation at 16.39%, stacking at 10.29%, and cast-in-place at 7.19%. The key factors include power consumption, noise pollution, material loss, fuel consumption and component loss, which altogether account for more than 85% of the total impact. Relevant stakeholders can conduct their project using the same approach to determine the construction environmental performance and hence introduce appropriate measures to mitigate the environmental burden.
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Indústria da Construção , Meio Ambiente , Poluição Ambiental , Desenvolvimento Industrial , Modelos Teóricos , Indústria da Construção/educação , Indústria da Construção/normas , Indústria da Construção/estatística & dados numéricos , Materiais de Construção , Poluição Ambiental/estatística & dados numéricos , Gases de Efeito Estufa , Desenvolvimento Industrial/estatística & dados numéricos , Meios de TransporteRESUMO
INTRODUCTION: A regulatory training standard for construction workers using fall protection equipment became mandatory in 2015 in the province of Ontario, Canada. By the end of the transition period in 2017, 418,000 workers had been trained to the new standard. Two primary research questions were posed: (1) To what extent does the WAH training affect practices at the worksite? and (2) Has there been a change in the incidence of fall-from-height injuries coincident with the introduction of the WAH Training Standard? MATERIALS AND METHODS: A longitudinal survey of 633 learners was conducted in 2017 at one-, four- and seven-week post-training. A quasi-experiment estimated the incidence of lost-time injuries attributed to falls from heights in 2017 compared to 2012-2014 for a census of construction workers insured for work disability in Ontario, Canada. RESULTS: Learners self-reported substantial increases in knowledge of and improvements in safe work practices when working at heights. The incidence rate of lost-time claim injuries attributed to falls targeted by the training declined by 19.6% (95% CI: 10.7, -27.6), compared to corresponding declines of 2.1% (95% CI: -6.3, 9.9) for other fall injuries and 7.2% (95% CI: 1.8, 12.3) for non-fall traumatic injuries. The observed decline was largest among the smallest employers (<5 full-time equivalent employees). CONCLUSION: The evaluation findings provide consistent support for a conclusion that the mandatory training standard was effective in reducing the incidence of injuries targeted by the training. However, the effects were modest and did not eliminate the problem. Practical application: A mandatory training standard should be considered as one approach to preventing traumatic injuries. However, other approaches higher in the hierarchy of risk controls should also be considered.
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Acidentes por Quedas/prevenção & controle , Indústria da Construção/normas , Ferimentos e Lesões/prevenção & controle , Acidentes por Quedas/estatística & dados numéricos , Acidentes de Trabalho/prevenção & controle , Acidentes de Trabalho/estatística & dados numéricos , Indústria da Construção/estatística & dados numéricos , Humanos , Ontário , Equipamento de Proteção Individual/estatística & dados numéricosRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Population data are gathered using the sampling unit at the appropriate time and due to various reasons (e.g. nutrition survey of the population, style of living, etc.), they can be changed due to trends for longer periods of time. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the paper is to analyse selected anthropometric parameters relevant to the design of the earth-moving machine operator workplace environment and to compare the gathered data to the standard ISO 3411. METHODS: The set of five dimensions and factors of the Slovak adult male population was analysed over the course of the years 2002-2018. RESULTS: A significant increase in the parameter -body weight was observed. In total, mentioned dimension of male population increased by 0.4âkg (0.5%) during the time of analysis. Following the dot plot and linear regression equation the fact that the trend in growth is becoming a global phenomenon in Slovakia can be stated. CONCLUSIONS: In the future, it will be necessary to focus on updating the standards defining the workplace size in this industry sector as well as in others.
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Indústria da Construção/normas , Local de Trabalho/normas , Adolescente , Adulto , Antropometria/métodos , Pesos e Medidas Corporais/instrumentação , Pesos e Medidas Corporais/métodos , Pesos e Medidas Corporais/estatística & dados numéricos , Indústria da Construção/métodos , Indústria da Construção/estatística & dados numéricos , Coleta de Dados/métodos , Humanos , Masculino , Metalurgia/métodos , Metalurgia/normas , Metalurgia/estatística & dados numéricos , Traumatismos Ocupacionais/epidemiologia , Traumatismos Ocupacionais/etiologia , Eslováquia/epidemiologia , Local de Trabalho/psicologiaRESUMO
Incorporating safety risk into the design process is one of the most effective design sciences to enhance the safety of metro station construction. In such a case, the concept of Design for Safety (DFS) has attracted much attention. However, most of the current research overlooks the risk-prediction process in the application of DFS. Therefore, this paper proposes a hybrid risk-prediction framework to enhance the effectiveness of DFS in practice. Firstly, 12 influencing factors related to the safety risk of metro construction are identified by adopting the literature review method and code of construction safety management analysis. Then, a structured interview is used to collect safety risk cases of metro construction projects. Next, a developed support vector machine (SVM) model based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) is presented to predict the safety risk in metro construction, in which the multi-class SVM prediction model with an improved binary tree is designed. The results show that the average accuracy of the test sets is 85.26%, and the PSO-SVM model has a high predictive accuracy for non-linear relationship and small samples. The results show that the average accuracy of the test sets is 85.26%, and the PSO-SVM model has a high predictive accuracy for non-linear relationship and small samples. Finally, the proposed framework is applied to a case study of metro station construction. The prediction results show the PSO-SVM model is applicable and reasonable for safety risk prediction. This research also identifies the most important influencing factors to reduce the safety risk of metro station construction, which provides a guideline for the safety risk prediction of metro construction for design process.
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Indústria da Construção , Arquitetura de Instituições de Saúde , Modelos Teóricos , Medição de Risco , Máquina de Vetores de Suporte , Algoritmos , Indústria da Construção/normas , Indústria da Construção/estatística & dados numéricos , Arquitetura de Instituições de Saúde/métodos , Ferrovias/estatística & dados numéricosRESUMO
Within the last decades the incidence of workspace injuries and fatalities in the UK construction industry has declined markedly following the developments in occupational health and safety (OHS) management systems. However, safety statistics have reached a plateau and actions for further improvement of OHS management systems are called for. OHS is a form of organizational expertise that has both tacit and explicit dimensions and is situated in the ongoing practices. There is a need for institutionalization and for the transfer of knowledge across and along construction supply chains to reduce OHS risks and facilitate cultural change. The focus of this article is the factors that facilitate OHS knowledge transfer in and between organizations involved in construction projects. An interpretative methodology is used in this research to embrace tacit aspects of knowledge transfer and application. Thematic analysis is supported by a cognitive mapping technique that allows understanding of interrelationships among the concepts expressed by the respondents. This paper demonstrates inconsistency in OHS practices in construction organizations and highlights the importance of cultivating a positive safety culture to encourage transfer of lessons learnt from good practices, incidents, near misses and failures between projects, from projects to programmes and across supply chains. Governmental health and safety regulations, norms and guidelines do not include all possible safety issues specific to different working environments and tied to work contexts. The OHS system should encourage employees to report near misses, incidents and failures in a 'no-blame' context and to take appropriate actions. This research provides foundation for construction project practitioners to adopt more socially oriented approaches towards promoting learning-rich organizational contexts to overcome variation in the OHS and move beyond the current plateau reached in safety statistics.
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Prevenção de Acidentes/métodos , Indústria da Construção/normas , Saúde Ocupacional/normas , Acidentes de Trabalho/prevenção & controle , Humanos , Cultura Organizacional , Pesquisa QualitativaRESUMO
Purpose. Whilst occupational safety and health (OSH) management is recognized as an important mechanism for addressing poor OSH performance, limited empirical insight is available on OSH management by construction companies in sub-Saharan Africa. This study investigated OSH management by construction companies (i.e., contractors) in Malawi in order to unpick implementation issues that need attention. Materials and methods. 46 OSH management practices were probed through a survey of contractors. Results. Implementation of OSH practices amongst contractors is low, particularly for practices related to the policy, organizing, measuring and reviewing, and auditing elements of OSH management. Company size is associated with implementation of nearly half of the 46 OSH practices. Certification of the company to Standard No. OHSAS 1800:2007 is associated with the implementation of fewer practices. Conclusions. OSH management improvement efforts would need to focus on the elements with particularly low implementation of practices as well as include initiatives that focus on helping microenterprises to improve their OSH management. The association between business characteristics and OSH management may be more evident with certain elements, such as the organizing element. Furthermore, certification to Standard No. OHSAS 1800:2007 may not necessarily translate into greater implementation of OSH management practices, especially in developing countries.
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Indústria da Construção/organização & administração , Países em Desenvolvimento , Gestão da Segurança/organização & administração , Indústria da Construção/normas , Indústria da Construção/estatística & dados numéricos , Humanos , Malaui , Saúde Ocupacional , Gestão da Segurança/normas , Gestão da Segurança/estatística & dados numéricosRESUMO
Despite the efforts made, the number of accidents has not significantly decreased in the construction industry. The main reasons can be found in the peculiarities of working activities in this sector, where hazard analysis and safety management are more difficult than in other industries. To deal with these problems, a comprehensive approach for hazard analysis is needed, focusing on the activities in which a working task is articulated since they are characterized by different types of hazards and thus risk levels. The study proposes a methodology that integrates quality function deployment (QFD) and analytic network process methods to correlate working activities, hazardous events and possible consequences. This provides more effective decision-making, while reducing the ambiguity of the qualitative assessment criteria. The results achieved can augment knowledge on the usability of QFD in safety research, providing a basis for its application for further studies.
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Acidentes de Trabalho/prevenção & controle , Indústria da Construção/organização & administração , Modelos Estatísticos , Gestão da Segurança/organização & administração , Indústria da Construção/normas , Tomada de Decisões , Meio Ambiente , Humanos , Saúde Ocupacional , Medição de Risco , Gestão da Segurança/normas , Local de Trabalho/normasRESUMO
Introduction. Occupational safety in general, and construction safety in particular, is a complex phenomenon. This study was designed to develop a new valid measure to evaluate factors affecting unsafe behavior in the construction industry. Methods. A new questionnaire was generated from qualitative research according to the principles of grounded theory. Key measurement properties (face validity, content validity, construct validity, reliability and discriminative validity) were examined using qualitative and quantitative approaches. The receiver operating characteristic curve was used to estimate the discriminating power and the optimal cutoff score. Results. Construct validity revealed an interpretable 12-factor structure which explained 61.87% of variance. Good internal consistency (Cronbach's α = 0.94) and stability (intra-class correlation coefficient = 0.93) were found for the new instrument. The area under the curve, sensitivity and specificity were 0.80, 0.80 and 0.75, respectively. The new instrument also discriminated safety performance among the construction sites with different workers' accident histories (F = 6.40, p < 0.05). Conclusion. The new instrument appears to be a valid, reliable and sensitive instrument that will contribute to investigating the root causes of workers' unsafe behaviors, thus promoting safety performance in the construction industry.
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Indústria da Construção/normas , Saúde Ocupacional/normas , Inquéritos e Questionários/normas , Local de Trabalho/psicologia , Adulto , Humanos , Capacitação em Serviço , Irã (Geográfico) , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Psicometria , Curva ROC , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Medição de Risco , Fatores de Risco , Fatores SocioeconômicosRESUMO
Smartphone MEMS (Micro Electrical Mechanical System) accelerometers have relatively low sensitivity and high output noise density. Therefore, it cannot be directly used to track feeble vibrations such as structural vibrations. This article proposes an effective increase in the sensitivity of the smartphone accelerometer utilizing the stochastic resonance (SR) phenomenon. SR is an approach where, counter-intuitively, feeble signals are amplified rather than overwhelmed by the addition of noise. This study introduces the 2D-frequency independent underdamped pinning stochastic resonance (2D-FI-UPSR) technique, which is a customized SR filter that enables identifying the frequencies of weak signals. To validate the feasibility of the proposed SR filter, an iPhone device is used to collect bridge acceleration data during normal traffic operation and the proposed 2D-FI-UPSR filter is used to process these data. The first four fundamental bridge frequencies are successfully identified from the iPhone data. In parallel to the iPhone, a highly sensitive wireless sensing network consists of 15 accelerometers (Silicon Designs accelerometers SDI-2012) is installed to validate the accuracy of the extracted frequencies. The measurement fidelity of the iPhone device is shown to be consistent with the wireless sensing network data with approximately 1% error in the first three bridge frequencies and 3% error in the fourth frequency.
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Indústria da Construção/normas , Sistemas Microeletromecânicos/instrumentação , Smartphone/instrumentação , Acelerometria/instrumentação , Humanos , Processos Estocásticos , VibraçãoRESUMO
Evidence shows that there are many work-related accidents and injuries happening in construction projects and governments have taken a series of administrative measures to reduce casualties in recent years. However, traditional approaches have reached a bottleneck due to ignoring market forces, and thus new measures should be conducted. This study develops a perspective of safety performance (SP) for construction projects in China and puts forward a conception of the safety information system by using several brainstorming sessions to strengthen the safety supervision of participants in the construction industry. This system provides rating information to the public, and bad performance contractors enter into a blacklist which will influence their economic activities. Considering the limited rationality of government and various contractors, this paper builds a reasonable evolutionary game model to verify the feasibility of the safety information system. The analysis results show that there is not a single set of evolutionarily stable strategies (ESSs), as different situations may lead to different ESSs. The efficiency of applying the safety information system (the blacklist) in the construction industry can be proved by reducing the government's safety supervision cost and by enhancing construction safety at the same time.
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Prevenção de Acidentes/normas , Indústria da Construção/normas , Guias como Assunto , Gestão da Segurança/normas , China , HumanosRESUMO
China's construction industry has experienced a long period of development and reform but compared to developed countries, safety on construction sites in China continues to present serious problems. Safety consciousness and safety citizenship behaviour are influential factors related to safety issues in the construction industry and may play a direct role in improving the safety of personnel on construction sites. However, recently no research has been focused on the relationship between safety consciousness and safety citizenship behaviour. Therefore, this paper aimed to investigate the relationship between safety consciousness and safety citizenship behaviour for personnel working on construction sites in China by using a questionnaire survey and statistical analysis, so that correlation between safety consciousness and safety citizenship can be demonstrated and effective measures suggested to improve the safety of construction workers in China, and perhaps in other countries as well.
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Indústria da Construção/normas , Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde , Segurança/normas , Inquéritos e Questionários , Local de Trabalho/normas , Análise de Variância , China , Estado de Consciência , Pesquisa Empírica , Análise Fatorial , Humanos , Modelos LinearesRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Construction workers are at greater risk of musculoskeletal disorders due to their exposure to physical ergonomic risk factors. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study is to quantify the ergonomic hazards for workers in the construction of residential buildings. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, PATH method, a work-sampling observation method, was applied to study the working postures, handled loads, and manual material handling activities in construction workers. A total of 5832 observations were made on 10 workers involved in tasks of three jobs including reinforcing bar, formwork, and pouring concrete. The ergonomic exposure was characterized in terms of percentage of observations made for each task. RESULTS: Non-neutral trunk postures, especially mild and severe flexions, were frequently observed in all job tasks. High-strain leg postures of squatting, kneeling, and leg(s) bent were mostly observed in floor formwork (39%), concrete finishing (5%), and floor rebar construction (52.3%), respectively. The highest proportion of work time with one (5.8%) and two hands (9%) at/above shoulder was observed in column rebar construction. In concrete pouring and rebar cutting, workers were observed in 39.45% and 23.1% of work time doing carry and push/pull activities, respectively. Heavy loads (>15 kg) were mostly observed in concrete pouring and floor formwork tasks. CONCLUSION: In the construction of residential buildings with the concrete structure, workers perform their task with non-neutral postures of trunk and leg and handling heavy loads. The recommended controls could reduce the musculoskeletal stress in rebar tying, concrete pouring, and concrete finishing tasks.
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Indústria da Construção/métodos , Ergonomia/normas , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Indústria da Construção/normas , Indústria da Construção/estatística & dados numéricos , Estudos Transversais , Ergonomia/estatística & dados numéricos , Humanos , Irã (Geográfico)/epidemiologia , Remoção/efeitos adversos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Doenças Musculoesqueléticas/complicações , Doenças Musculoesqueléticas/epidemiologia , Doenças Musculoesqueléticas/etiologia , Traumatismos Ocupacionais/complicações , Traumatismos Ocupacionais/epidemiologia , Traumatismos Ocupacionais/etiologia , Postura/fisiologia , Fatores de Risco , Análise e Desempenho de TarefasRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Safety prequalification assessing contractors' safety management systems and safety programs lack validation in predicting construction worker injuries. METHODS: Safety assessments of leading indicators from 2198 construction contractors, including Safety Management Systems (SMS), Safety Programs (e.g., falls, hearing protection), and Special Elements (drug testing, return to work) scales as well as the history of citations from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) were compared to contractors' lagging indicators of recordable injury case rates (RC) and rates of injuries involving days away, restricted, or transferred (DART). RESULTS: Increased SMS scores were related to lower injury rates. Each one-point increase in SMS values was associated with 34% reduced odds of a recordable case rate greater than zero (Odds ratio (OR): 0.66, 95% Confidence Interval (CI): (0.57, 0.79)), and a 9% reduced recordable case rate, if one occurs (Risk Ratio (RR): 0.91, 95% CI: (0.88, 0.94)). A one-point increase in SMS was associated with 28% reduced odds of a DART (OR = 0.72, 95%CI (0.56, 0.91)), and 9% reduced DART rate, if one occurs (RR = 0.91, 95%CI (0.87, 0.95)). Safety programs did not show consistent associations with injury outcomes. Having additional Special Elements related to drug and alcohol programs was associated with lower injury rates while the Special Element related to return to work showed no consistent associations with injury. Having more OSHA Citations was associated with lower injury rates for companies with injuries. CONCLUSIONS: These results support pre-qualification methods based on SMS and suggest the need for safety management systems in contractors.
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Indústria da Construção/estatística & dados numéricos , Saúde Ocupacional/estatística & dados numéricos , Traumatismos Ocupacionais/prevenção & controle , Gestão da Segurança , Acidentes por Quedas/prevenção & controle , Canadá , Indústria da Construção/normas , Bases de Dados Factuais , Dispositivos de Proteção das Orelhas , Humanos , Saúde Ocupacional/normas , Traumatismos Ocupacionais/epidemiologia , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Retorno ao Trabalho , Detecção do Abuso de Substâncias , Estados Unidos , United States Occupational Safety and Health AdministrationRESUMO
Because Career Technical Education (CTE) programs at the community/technical college level are among the few places new construction workers receive training or preparation, they are an important vehicle for educating new and young workers about occupational health and safety (OSH). We developed recommendations for (1) OSH "core competencies" that all postsecondary construction students should achieve and (2) "essential elements" for OSH education in construction training programs. Based on a review of the literature, subject matter expert focus groups, and iterative engagement with an expert advisory group, we identified fourteen core competencies and a list of essential supporting elements at the school, program, and instructor levels. Knowledge and recognition of the importance of effective safety and health management systems served as the foundation for elements and competencies. Findings provide an important starting point for systematically improving the preparation of construction CTE students that can help keep them safe on the job.
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Acidentes de Trabalho/prevenção & controle , Indústria da Construção/educação , Saúde Ocupacional/educação , Educação Vocacional/organização & administração , Indústria da Construção/normas , Docentes/normas , Humanos , Competência Profissional , Educação Vocacional/normasRESUMO
Lean construction has been viewed as an effective management approach for reducing the occurrence of no-value or destructive activities, such as wasting resources and safety-related accidents. However, few studies have systematically addressed how and to what extent lean construction practices influence construction safety. To bridge this gap, a conceptual model is developed and validated using a system dynamics approach. The construction system in this model comprises four sub-systems (i.e., environment system, equipment system, management system, and employee system). Data were collected from 448 projects in China. Simulations were conducted to determine the correlations between five types of lean tools and the four construction sub-systems. The results show that: (a) 5S management has significant positive impacts on the control of key locations and facilities at construction sites, and contributes to the mitigation of environmental impacts; (b) visual management can significantly improve safety compliance and safety management; (c) just-in-time management has significantly positive influences on the safety facilities layout and formulation of the safety plan; and (d) the Last Planner® System and conference management are effective in improving safety training and the implementation of the safety plan. These findings provide new insights into the use of lean construction for improving construction safety through the implementation of a targeted lean approach.