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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"construction safety"”.
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Exploring Construction Safety and Control Measures through Electrical Fatalities
Globally, construction is considered a hazardous industry with a disproportionate amount of fatal and non-fatal injuries as compared to other industries. Electrocution is named as one of the "fatal four" causes for construction injuries by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). …
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Operation Analysis and Control: A Paradigm Shift in Construction Safety Management
… fundamentally alter the theoretical basis of safety, health and wellbeing management in the construction sector and beyond. The emerging risk management approach was flawed, relying on an element of chance to deliver safe outcomes. The author’s<br/>research into development and delivery of the …
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Design of a Construction Safety Training System using Contextual Design Methodology
In the U.S., the majority of construction companies are small companies with 10 or fewer employees (BLS, 2004). The fatality rate in the construction industry is high, indicating a need for implementing safety training to a greater extent. This research addresses two main goals: to make …
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Command vs. self-regulation in construction safety : a case study of CHASE
… 816 fatal injuries in the United States in the construction industry. Reducing injuries and fatalities on construction sites is good for workers, contractors, and owners. The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) was created to ensure safe and healthful working conditions for all …
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A context-based representation and reasoning formalism to support construction safety planning
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by William Ingram (wingram2@illinois.edu) on 2010-05-14T20:52:44Z Item is restricted until 2012-05-14T20:52:43Z
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Automated field compliance checking for improved construction safety using natural language processing and computer vision
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Optimal Construction Site Layout Planning for Airport Expansion Projects
… to the advancement of current practice in construction site layout planning and can lead to: (1) increasing the efficiency of construction operations; (2) improving the level of construction safety; (3) reducing construction-related hazards to aviation safety; and (4) enhancing the security …
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Development And Implementation Of A Proactive Safety Performance Evaluation System For General Contractors
<p>Construction safety is an essential aspect of the construction industry and measuring safety performance has been of continuing concern. Most of the preceding studies concentrated on two widely used metrics in industry to evaluate and improve safety performance, EMR and incidence rates. However, …
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Maximum Levee Height as a Function of Red River Valley Foundation Sediments
… Equation. Allowable levee heights with desired construction safety factors are less than heights necessary to protect against a 1997 magnitude flood. </p>
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Semantic and spatio-temporal understanding for computer vision driven worker safety inspection and risk analysis
… of efforts, we are still far from eliminating construction safety risks. Recently, computer vision techniques have been applied for construction safety management on real-world residential and commercial projects; they have shown the potential to fundamentally change safety management practices …
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Safety Benchmarking of Industrial Construction Projects Based on Zero Accidents Techniques
Safety is a continually significant issue in the construction industry. The Occupation Safety and Health Administration as well as individual construction companies are constantly working on verifying that their selected safety plans have a positive effect on reduction of workplace injuries. Worker …
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Quarry Workers' Hazard Identification, Severity Interpretation, and Prevention Strategies
… private industries in United States such as construction, manufacturing, agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting. Although many studies about generating a safe work environment and developing safety training through intervention modules have tried to reduce the number of worker fatalities …
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Safety activity analysis framework to evaluate safety performance in construction
The construction work environment remains one of the most hazardous worldwide. As a result of dangerous working environments, construction workers often face safety and health risks throughout the construction process. However, it is worth noting that an emphasis on construction safety has …
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A leading indicator approach to safety: a case study of Nigeria’s construction sector
The construction industry grapples with significant safety challenges, making it one of the most hazardous sectors to work in, especially in developing countries. This study aims to address safety concerns in the Nigerian construction industry by exploring safety leading indicators (SLIs). Unlike …
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Accident causation model for building construction sites
Construction safety at Malaysian building and construction project sites is of utmost importance due to the nature of the construction industry. Workplace safety is a care consideration for all types of organizations or stakeholders. However, statistics shows that safety at project sites is not …
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Skills for developing safety climate in construction projects
… to the global and national economies, the construction industry is notorious for being unsafe. In such an environment, project management personnel play an important role in leading safety task implementation and creating positive safety climate in construction projects. This, subsequently, …
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The influence of national culture on health and safety performance in Kuwait oil and gas sector construction projects
… on the workers’ behaviours, specifically on the construction workers in Kuwait. Furthermore, it aims to provide recommendations for enhancing the safety performance. A mixed method approach is employed in the present study, under which qualitative and quantitative research methods are combined. …
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Descriptive analysis of construction scheduling data towards automation of 4D building information modeling
The integration of construction planning and scheduling into Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows is still evolving. The common workflow to integrate the fourth dimensional (4D) of BIM still relies on the ability of manually linking construction activity tasks with 3D BIM-based objects. …
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Automated safety analysis of construction site activities using spatio-temporal data
During the past 10 years, construction was the leading industry of occupational fatalities when compared to other goods producing industries in the US. This is partially attributed to ineffective safety management strategies, specifically lack of automated construction equipment and worker …
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An Evaluation of Perceived and Observed Safety and Productivity in Residential Construction
The construction industry leads the private sector with the most fatalities of any industry in the United States. With an expected growth of the industry in the next century, safe work environments are imperative. They will impact the bottom line of the industry through the reduction of fatal and …
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