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  1. Case Studies in Construction Safety: Lessons Learned from Real

    Case studies in construction safety provide invaluable insights into real incidents, helping to understand the consequences of safety lapses and the importance of preventive measures.

  2. Construction

    These case studies give examples of good practice from industry. They show how companies have tried to reduce injuries due to falls from vehicles through sensible management of health and safety risks in the workplace. Even if they don't show the type of vehicle you use, the good ideas others have found may be adapted to your situation.

  3. Construction case study in safety: managing a pandemic

    Before the first COVID-19 case was recorded in the U.S., the company's new COVID-19 response team had been meeting weekly to assess emerging risks and develop protocol and contingency plans that ...

  4. PDF Catalog of Construction Case Studies

    Case Study: Construction Safety Safety management in construction workplaces can be challenging due to the dynamic, temporal, and hazardous nature of construction operations.

  5. Case Studies

    Case Studies To help start or improve your organization's safety and health program, see the case studies listed below for lessons learned and best practices.

  6. Preventing Struck-by Injuries in Construction

    This training provides focused information and case studies of real-life fatalities, along with the relevant OSHA regulations on the four worst hazards that construction workers face: falls, struck-by, caught-in/between and electrocutions (8).

  7. BIM Approach in Construction Safety—A Case Study on Preventing Falls

    The construction industry has one of the highest occupational accident incidence rates among all economic sectors. Currently, building information modelling (BIM) appears to be a valuable tool for analysing occupational safety issues throughout the construction life cycle of projects, helping to avoid hazards and risks and, consequently, increasing safety. This work investigates BIM ...

  8. Identify the hazards in construction

    A case study to illustrate an example of identifying hazards in the construction industry that could help protect workers from developing occupational lung diseases. Available in .docx and .PDF formats.

  9. Behavior-based safety on construction sites: A case study

    The results of this case study showed that an approach based on goal setting, feedback, and an effective measure of safety behavior if properly applied by committed management, can improve safety performance significantly in construction site environments.

  10. Case Studies in Construction Materials

    Case Studies in Construction Materials provides a forum for the rapid publication of short, structured Case Studies on construction materials and related Short Communications, specialising in actual case studies involving real construction projects. Now by popular demand, CSCM has expanded the …. View full aims & scope.

  11. Buildings

    The findings of this study will assist employers with identifying all possible safety hazards on construction job sites, thus reducing the risk of their employees experiencing associated occupational accidents and injuries. Furthermore, it will support future research directions by presenting an organized synthesis of the existing literature.

  12. PDF Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs in Construction

    These practices for safety and health programs for construction worksites are recommendations only. Employers in construction work must have a program that includes measures to detect and correct workplace hazards. However, their program may not contain all of the practices recommended in this document.

  13. Case Studies on the Safety Management at Construction Site

    accidents at construction sites in Malaysia, the objectives of this research are to determine the current. safety practices at construction sites, to identify the safety practices related problems ...

  14. Behavior-based safety on construction sites: a case study

    This work presents the results of a case study and describes an important area within the field of construction safety management, namely behavior-based safety (BBS). This paper adopts and develops a management approach for safety improvements in construction site environments. A rigorous behavioral …

  15. Occupational health and safety in construction projects: a case study

    Occupational health and safety in construction projects Costa et al. - a case study on chemical industry sector International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Safety, 5:2 (2021) 14-21 15 ...

  16. Design for safety (DfS) practice in construction engineering and

    Highlights • Design for safety (DfS) is a growing area of research and practice in construction. • A scientometric review of DfS literature in construction is conducted. • The review reveals mapping of the DfS literature from multiple perspectives. • Insights into existing DfS studies and opportunities for future research are presented.

  17. Case Studies in Safety: A Great Training Tool

    Case studies are a great safety training tool. It's like CSI. Employees can really get involved examining the evidence and seeing why an accident occurred. Safety case studies are fun, challenging, interactive, and a highly effective training method. Armed with the knowledge they gain from examining the facts of real workplace accidents ...

  18. PDF Case Studies on The Safety Management at Construction Site

    tract: Cases of construction site accidents always happen. In line with the efforts to reduce accidents at construction sites in Malaysia, the objectives of this research are to determine the current safety practices at construction sites, to identify the safety practices related problems, and to identify the strategies to reduce the safety practices related problems. Two case studies were ...

  19. A risk assessment approach for enhancing construction safety

    This study aims at developing a risk assessment approach that can be used to enhance the safety performance of construction projects. The study has employed pair-wise comparisons and weighting-by-ranking surveys to establish risk scores and weights for the various construction accidents, and their potential causes.

  20. PDF Hazard and safety evaluation in construction sites in Malaysia: A case

    In line with the efforts to reduce accidents at construction sites in Malaysia, the objective of this study is to analyze on workplace hazard, risk and safety and proposes a recommended actions on the case analyzed. A total of five case studies were conducted, in which the cases are scope to be on construction sites in Malaysia.

  21. Safety and Hazards Management in Construction Sites

    This article intends to study the factors that lead to accidents in construction sites, hazards, and safety management through previous research.

  22. Unit III Case Study OSH 4310 (docx)

    Management document from Columbia Southern University, 5 pages, 1 My Observations of a Roofing Crew Unit III Case Study Samuel J. Stevenson Columbia Southern University OSH 4310, Special Topics in Construction Safety Professor Julie Carter August 25, 2024 2 Introduction The last time that I went home, I had the oppor

  23. Boosting Construction Safety Through Industrial

    Multiple hazards make for a complex and high-risk environment with potentially fatal outcomes. Monitoring, awareness and threat assessment are time and resource intensive. A comprehensive automated monitoring solution was required to provide worker safety in highly dynamic construction environments.

  24. NPTEL :: Civil Engineering

    About us Courses Contact us Courses Civil Engineering NOC:Safety in Construction (Video) Syllabus Co-ordinated by : IIT Delhi Available from : 2020-11-18 Lec : 1

  25. A measurement system for assessing the completeness and ...

    For a long time, research entities have been interested in ways to measure and evaluate the safety of ladder construction and workmanship. Examples include studies of damage 1 , 2 , conditions of ...

  26. Buildings

    To address this challenge, this study aims to explore the costs associated with integrating VR into architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) education. The study had three objectives: to identify relevant case studies that utilized VR in AEC education, to perform keyword analysis, and to conduct a cost analysis of the selected case ...

  27. Boosting Construction Safety Through Industrial Cellu

    Boosting Construction Safety Through Industrial Cellular Routers 2024/8/28. Background. Construction workers need unparallel levels of safety in hazardous locations. Multiple hazards make for a complex and high-risk environment with potentially fatal outcomes. Monitoring, awareness and threat assessment are time and resource intensive.

  28. Permafrost Degradation and Seismic Hazard: Case Study of Northway

    Construction Engineering; Environment & Water Resources Engineering; ... This paper aims to provide a case study of an airport built on warm permafrost about 80 years ago, focusing on climate changes, permafrost degradation, and observed seismic hazards during a strong earthquake. The study site, that is, the Northway Airport, is located in a ...

  29. Low-carbon blended cement containing wet carbonated ...

    Case study. Low-carbon blended cement containing wet carbonated municipal solid waste incineration fly ash and mechanically activated coal fly ash. ... Case Studies in Construction Materials, 20 (2024), Article e02775, 10.1016/j.cscm.2023.e02775. View PDF View article View in Scopus Google Scholar

  30. Fire Safety in Timber Construction / Freie Universität Bozen

    Fire Safety in Timber Construction. State of the art and perspectives: from the regulatory framework to the most challenging case studies. Veranstaltungsart Hybride-Veranstaltung. Standort A2.2.32; NOI Techpark Bozen-Bolzano Dienststellen ENG Faculty. Kontakt Federica Morandi