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Kania, A., K. Cesarz-Andraczke, K. Więcek, and R. Babilas. "Analysis of accidents in the context of work safety culture." Journal of Achievements in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering 1-2, no. 94 (May 1, 2019): 41–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.5120.
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Purpose: The article presents an analysis of accidents in the selected enterprise from the automotive industry. The analysis includes two workplaces: machine operator and warehouseman. Design/methodology/approach: The analysis of accidents at work in a selected production company includes the period from the beginning of 2016 to half of the 2018 year using the method based on the TOH model. This method determines three factors of accident causes: technical, organizational and human (TOH). Findings: In the paper, the workplaces analysis taking into account activities, type of work, working position and accidents at work is presented. The analysis of work accidents includes the age group, work experience etc. The TOH model determines causes related to accidental events. Research limitations/implications: The accidents at work are the result of a low or undesirable safety culture. Because of that, the safety culture should be constantly developed, maintained and continuously improved. Originality/value: Many methods and procedures can be used to investigate accidents at work. The TOH model is one of them. It determines the direct and indirect causes of accidents. Based on them, the corrective actions can be proposed and implemented.
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Einarsdóttir, Margrét, and Guðbjörg Linda Rafnsdóttir. "The prevalence, seriousness, and causes of teenage work accidents: A gender difference?" Work 69, no. 4 (August 27, 2021): 1209–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/wor-213542.
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BACKGROUND: Teenage workers are prone to a higher injury risk than adult workers, and adult men are prone to a higher risk of work injuries than adult women. OBJECTIVES: This study aims to examine whether gender differences exist in teenage work accidents, the level of the accidents, their causes, and the types of the injuries. METHODS: A survey was sent to a sample of 2,800 13–19-year-olds, randomly selected from Registers Iceland. The response rate was 48.6%. A chi-square test, CI 95%, was applied to measure gender differences. RESULTS: In total, 16.3%of the respondents had at least one work accident, and 1.2%, an accident that lead to more than one week’s absence from work. No gender differences were observed in the level of the accidents, but appeared in the types of injuries and their causes. Cuts were the most common injuries of the boys, but burns of the girls. Bone fractures were the most serious injuries of the boys, but sprains of the girls. CONCLUSION: Work accidents among teenagers are a particular threat to public health. Therefore, all stakeholders need to work together to prevent teenage work accidents in the future; and to keep in mind the gender diversity of the group.
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Dos Santos, Nailson Diniz, Tomi Zlatar, Felipe Mendes Da Cruz, Béda Barkokébas Junior, and Eliane Maria Gorga Lago. "Reduction of work accidents through the implementation of containers for solid waste collection." International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Safety 4, no. 1 (April 20, 2020): 62–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.24840/2184-0954_004.001_0005.
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The activity of waste collection is fundamental for preserving human health and the environment. As the world population increases, so does the waste production, consequently leading to a higher number of professionals involved in the collection activity. The objective of this study was to identify the main causes of accidents in urban waste collection and to verify if the implementation of containers would reduce the number of accidents in the sector. The causes were identified by analyzing accidents in two waste-collection companies for 4 years. Company A had 3,859 employees with 756 registered accident cases, while company B had 2020 workers with 189 cases. In total, it was analyzed 945 accident cases from urban waste collection. One municipality from company A which implemented the highest number of containers was studied thoroughly to verify if the implementation of containers reduces the number of accidents. The analysis shows that the household collection had the highest accident rate, with 65.61%. Sharp materials and falls were the leading causes of accidents, representing 53% in the company A and 62% in the company B. After containers implementation, the number of accidents caused by sharp materials and falls decreased from 37 without the container in 2014, to 18 with the container in 2015, and 11 with the container in 2016. It was concluded that the implementation of containers improves occupational safety and health during the urban cleaning process. Further studies should be conducted in order to improve the working conditions in the urban cleaning sector.
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Pałęga, Michał, and Marcin Knapinski. "Analysis of Circumstances and Causes of Accidents Working in a Selected Industrial Undertaking." New Trends in Production Engineering 2, no. 2 (December 1, 2019): 331–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ntpe-2019-0097.
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Abstract The subject of this publication is to analyze the circumstances and causes of accidents at work in a selected industrial enterprise that provides services in the field of waterjet cutting and laser beam. The paper present the statutory definition of an accident at work and its basic categories (light, heavy, mortal and collective accident). It also discusses the most popular accident investigation method – the TOL method, which classifies the causes of accidents into three basic groups: material-technical, organizational and human. In the further part of the work the characteristics of the waterjet operator’s work station were made, including the scope of activities, possible occupational hazards and preventive actions. Next, the results of the analysis of the circumstances and causes of accidents at work were presented. In the period from 2013 to 2018 eight accidents were reported, resulting in minor injuries, such as cuts and cuts, fracture of the phalanx, overloading of the spine, leg twisting or knee injury.
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Mohamed Nasr, Mona, Fahd Kamal Kamel, and Yasmen Samhan Abd Elwahab. "A survey on predicting oil spills by studying its causes using deep learning techniques." Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 22, no. 1 (April 1, 2021): 580. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijeecs.v22.i1.pp580-589.
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<span>It’s so easy to know the accidents as it’s already happened and solving these accidents is immediately handled, but searching for a solution for these accidents, don’t deny the existence of reasons that made accidents happen. Knowing the source of accidents will help in avoiding them to occur in the future. It’s an important field in searching as some human lives depend on the safety of such a field, so it’s so important to use a powerful technique to define these reasons as the research point in spill accidents and predicting accidents and to predict the occurrence of the accident before its happening depending on its reasons that lead to that accident in past times so with similar conditions it might happen an accident but it needs a sufficient data and a powerful technique such as deep learning techniques that give very precise results and by using this tool an Intelligent Model will build to predict oil spilling. In this survey paper, related work will be discussed to enhance that work.</span>
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Menegon Bristot, Vilson, Kristian Madeira, Leopoldo Pedro Guimarães Filho, Marcelo Leandro de Borba, Cristina Keiko Yamaguchi, Jacir Favretto, Madalena Pereira da Silva, Vilmar Menegon Bristot, and Luana Santiago Costa. "Analysis of the Causes of Labor Accidents in a Steel Industry in Southern Santa Catarina." International Journal for Innovation Education and Research 8, no. 12 (December 1, 2020): 99–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol8.iss12.2816.
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Over the years, manufacturing industries such as the steel industry have shown a significant increase in their productivity, this growth highlights themes that make up the development framework of this segment. In this context, there is a concern with the preservation of the employee's integrity, generating a state of alert for the risks existing in the production process, and the preventive measures that organizations must put in place to eliminate or minimize these risks, avoiding accidents. For the development of this project, occupational accidents are characterized as those that occur at the service of the company causing bodily injury with temporary leave of the employee. This type of accident is referred to as a typical accident, as they are caused within the work environment and must consider all aspects related to work, such as: the machinery, the task, the environment, the instruction for carrying out the activity and the organization of the work. job. This study aimed to analyze the causes of accidents at work in a steel industry in the south of Santa Catarina, identifying the influencing factors in the causes of accidents, characterizing the types of accidents at work, highlighting the productive sectors and the frequency with which these events occur , indicating possible improvements in the development of work activities. Accident data were collected and analyzed over a 10-year period, demonstrating the nature of the injuries and the agents involved in order to make it possible to reduce the occurrences of accidents in the analyzed productive sectors.
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Enn, Anni, and Eda Merisalu. "P.3.10 Causes and consequences of work accidents in estonian agriculture." Occupational and Environmental Medicine 76, Suppl 1 (April 2019): A99.1—A99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oem-2019-epi.271.
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IntroductionWork accidents (WA) in agriculture are a problem all over the world. There are over 1,3 billion agricultural workers, that counts more than 50% of all the worlds’ workforce. Even if the most of work tasks become more automated, farmers, family members and farm workers are facing risks at work that are higher than in most other occupations. Many accidents involve the handling of machinery or animals. The costs of WAs are increasing, exhausting national economy as a whole. The aim of this study is to analyse the main causes and consequences of WAs in Estonian agriculture.MethodThe database of accidents in agriculture (2008–2017) has obtained from the Estonian Labour Inspectorate. WAs statistics is based on official reports of employers. Causes and consequences including injury severity, type and body region are described in the present study.ResultsThe main cause of WAs in agriculture is disregarding of safety requirements (28,9%), whereas more than half of cases remain unclear. Loss of control over animals or machinery (33,4%), falling and slipping (21,5%) and an attack or an assault by cattle (15,8%) are the main activity-based reasons of WAs. During the last decade the most were minor injuries (72,8%). By the type of injury most often wounds and superficial injuries (40,4%), bone fractures (25,6%) and concussion or internal injuries (16,2%) have been registered. Upper and lower limbs (35,7% and 33,6%) were the most often injured body regions.ConclusionsAgriculture is a sector with high accident risks, where injury rate shows steady tendency to increase. It is important to pay more attention on improvement of safety culture and prevention of work accidents in agriculture.
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Wright, Chris. "Routine Deaths: Fatal Accidents in the Oil Industry." Sociological Review 34, no. 2 (May 1986): 265–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.1986.tb02702.x.
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This paper is a study in the relatively neglected field of the Sociology of Accidents and is concerned with fatalities in the UK Offshore Oil Industry. The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate the social and organizational causes of these accidents. Common sense and expert opinion both present industrial accidents as products of extra organizational abnormality but evidence from this research locates the causes of accidents in work organization and dependence on bureaucratic rationality. In particular it is shown that the hazardous situations in which the accidents occurred were themselves largely the products of two aspects of the formal organization of work, the ‘speed-up’ and the practice of ‘sub-contracting’. It is demonstrated that the common sense equation of the ‘normal’ and the ‘routine’ inhibited recognition of the organization causes of these accidents. Finally it is argued that, since there is little support for the view that the accident were produced by unique working conditions in the offshore industry, it is therefore likely that the causes of accidents in this industry will be found to exist in other industries.
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Haider, Ahmed Basil. "Causes of accidents and evaluation of safety system in Northern Iraq construction projects." International Journal of Advanced Engineering, Sciences and Applications 1, no. 3 (July 15, 2020): 18–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.47346/ijaesa.v1i3.45.
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Construction work involves some of the most complex operational actions, where many activities require to be carried out at the same time and place. The nature of this type of work, subsequently, makes it an extremely hazardous environment for workers. By constructing sophisticated and intelligent safety systems to make construction work and sites safer, and bypasses any unforeseen costs caused by accidents that can occur during the construction work. To construct such systems, it is required to know the causes behind accidents. So that, to improve the overall safety performance, there is a need to investigate the causes of construction accidents and to evaluate the current safety systems used to give a picture of the weak points in systems currently adopted. The awareness of these things can be used in formulating safer working environments for construction work. This paper identifies the causes of the accident and evaluates the present safety systems in different construction projects in Northern Iraq. The study has been conducted by reviewing literature from articles and books, plus applied quantitative approaches to collect data by applying a questionnaire survey prepared for this study to collect data from the sites’ users. The results of the current study show that the overall evaluation of the safety system is in poor condition, also found that there are many causes behind accidents. The most severe cause is considering safety as a second priority, and the study classified the causes into, unsafe actions and unsafe conditions.
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Smolarz, Anna. "Analysis of Accidents in Construction in 2015-2017." Civil and Environmental Engineering Reports 29, no. 4 (December 1, 2019): 149–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ceer-2019-0051.
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Abstract Worldwide, construction is a branch of the economy characterised by a high level of employee safety risks and a high accident rate. In Poland, over the last 20 years, the number of victims and the frequency of accidents in the construction industry have shown a decreasing tendency, but they are subject to large fluctuations. Current accident reporting methods focused on rigidly classified circumstances and root causes do not facilitate drawing general conclusions for the purpose of prediction. The paper presents an analysis of the number and characteristics of construction site accidents of the years 2015-2017 using data from reports of the National Labour Inspectorate. The preliminary analysis of available nationwide sources confirmed that every year nearly 50% of accidents that occur during construction works are falls from height. The analysis is intended as a starting point for further research on factors and causes of accidents at work in construction.
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Sriwahyuni, Susy, Eka Santika, Khairunnas Khairunnas, Ishalyadi Ishalyadi, and Muhammad Iqbal Fahlevi. "The Effect of Work Situation and Unsafety Action on Work Accident in PT. Raja Marga Nagan Raya District." J-Kesmas: Jurnal Fakultas Kesehatan Masyarakat (The Indonesian Journal of Public Health) 7, no. 1 (April 21, 2020): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.35308/j-kesmas.v7i1.1916.
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A work accident is an unplanned event that has the potential to cause injury, damage or other loss to someone. Based on preliminary studies conducted by researchers to 10 employees that the work environment is less than the maximum one of which is caused by a workplace environment that is too hot, muddy, slippery and easily causes employees to slip. The aims of research to determine the factor of affecting work accident. The research used analytic survey with cross sectional approach. The population were all employees (72 respondents) and used total sampling and used chi-square test. The results showed there were effect among work situation (Pvalue = 0.011) and unsafety action (Pvalue = 0,000) with work accident. The researcher suggest to PT. Raja Marga to provide warning letters to employees in an effort to avoid work accidents to the maximum extent.
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Betsis, Sotiris, Maria Kalogirou, Georgios Aretoulis, and Maria Pertzinidou. "Work Accidents Correlation Analysis for Construction Projects in Northern Greece 2003–2007: A Retrospective Study." Safety 5, no. 2 (May 27, 2019): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/safety5020033.
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Construction project related accidents are critical events and it is imperative that they are analyzed in order to understand and identify their root causes. Therefore, the present study analyzes work accidents on construction projects in northern Greece. The methodological approach firstly includes the collection of accident related data from the “Greek Work Inspection Organization”, which is followed by a descriptive analysis and corresponding codification of available data. The next step includes the creation of an appropriate database in SPSS to accommodate all relevant data and subsequent correlation analysis that aims to identify potential trends and tendencies within the accidents’ sample. The findings highlight the most frequent occurrences regarding construction work related accidents and at the same time identify correlations among the various parameters associated with them. The majority of accidents include inexperienced personnel and workers in the age range of 24–44 years old. Moreover, most accidents occur during the summer and are not fatal. Falls are by far the dominant type of accident, and as a consequence, fractures are the most frequently occurring type of injury. Finally, most accidents occur in the morning, with injuries focusing on the lower parts of the body, and in the presence of general use equipment. The current paper also identified associations among various accident characteristics. These findings could help towards reducing the number and severity of work-related accidents. Improved construction site organization, accompanied by the dedication of management towards health and safety and more frequent inspections, could decrease the number and severity of accidents.
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Du, Zhuoqun, and Yisheng Liu. "Causes of Work Safety Accidents in Railway Construction Engineering." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 791, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 012010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/791/1/012010.
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Gharaie, Ehsan, Helen Lingard, and Tracy Cooke. "Causes of Fatal Accidents Involving Cranes in the Australian Construction Industry." Construction Economics and Building 15, no. 2 (May 30, 2015): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ajceb.v15i2.4244.
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In ten years from 2004 to 2013, 359 workers died in the Australian construction industry because of work related causes. This paper investigates crane-related fatalities in order to find the upstream causation of such accidents. The National Coroners’ Information System (NCIS) database was searched to identify fatal accidents in the construction industry involving the use of a crane. The narrative description of the cases provided in the coroners’ findings and associated documents were content analysed to identify the contributing causal factors within the context of each case. The findings show that the most frequent crane-related accident types were those that were struck by load, and electrocution. The most prevalent immediate circumstance causes were layout of the site and restricted space. The two most commonly identified shaping factors were physical site constraints and design of construction process. Inadequate risk management system was identified as the main originating influence on the accidents. This paper demonstrates that a systemic causation model can provide considerable insight into how originating influences, shaping factors, and immediate circumstances combine to produce accidents. This information is extremely useful in informing the development of prevention strategies, particularly in the case of commonly occurring accident types.
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Wijaya, Yedija Prasetya, and Sunday Alexander Theophilus Noya. "Application of FTA and SPAR-H Method to Control Work Accident at PG. Krebet Baru." Jurnal Ilmiah Teknik Industri 15, no. 1 (July 9, 2016): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.23917/jiti.v15i1.778.
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This research is conducted because a high number of accidents occured during the workplace in PG. Krebet Baru. There were about 45 accidentsin 2013 and 32 out of 45 accidentscame from the Maintenance Division. This research is needed for the purpose of decreasing the number of accidents. The methods used in this research are hierarchycal task analysis (HTA), standarized plant risk analysishuman reliability assessment (SPAR-H), and fault tree analysis (FTA). In this research, there are 4 stations. They are milling station, purification, maturation, and spinning. Based on this research, there are 5 accidents. They are damaged muscle, damaged bone, graze, damaged eye, and injuries from a fall. Based on this research, it can be concluded that the workplace conditions and the lack of worker awareness on the importance of protective equipment usage are the main causes of these work accidents. Based on these causes, the suitable solution is to change several work methods and instruct the workers about using protective equipment.
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Ghuzdewan, Toriq, and Petrus Damanik. "Analysis of accident in Indonesian construction projects." MATEC Web of Conferences 258 (2019): 02021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201925802021.
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The numbers of accidents in construction projects in Indonesia is the highest in the industries as mentioned by the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration’s publication. Construction accidents are often reported in the media such as televisions, newspapers, magazines, and the internet. This study employs construction accident data from the internet, from the year 2012 to 2014 using search engines with keywords such as construction work accident, falling from height, an accident from falling objects, electrical shock, etc. The data are then analyzed to understand the types, causes and impacts of accidents and suggestion for future improvement. The results showed that of the 332 data obtained, accidents in building projects are the highest (47%), followed by that in housings (42%) and others (11%). According to the types of accidents, electrical shock is the highest (115 cases), followed by falling from height (91 cases) and stricken by objects (83 cases). The causes of accident due to unsafe acts was 61% and unsafe condition was 39%. Most of the accidents can be categorized as fatal (68%), serious (16%) and catastrophic (14%). It is recommended that administrative action and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) should be applied to reduce the risk of accident.
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Bellini, Maria Isabel Barros, Ines Amaro da Silva, Beatriz Gershenson, and Michele Cardoso Correa. "Human Factor and Disasters: Possible Equations." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 34, s1 (May 2019): s137. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x19003017.
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Introduction:This research starts from the assumption that work accidents, in addition to fortuitous or individual phenomena, imply social and organizational factors, and highlights the social character of the production of the accident at work. For this reason, this study investigates the living conditions and the ways of workers in the oil and gas industry in Brazil.Aim:To analyze the human factors in the relationship with work accidents on oil platforms from the social dimensions.Methods:It is qualitative research and it has as instruments of collection the focal group and individual interviews with workers and managers of the platforms, participant observation, and documentary analysis.Results:The research is still being carried out, but some reflections are possible so far: accidents at work depend on the direct or indirect relationship of workers with the work process itself, the modalities of production of work, and management of work. Possible causes underlying the accident are the quality of life and the conceptions of health and safety. Associated with it are social constructs and the multifactorial causes of occupational accidents including the relations between acts and unsafe conditions.Discussion:The increase in outsourcing and the decrease in training quality, as well as the prioritization of production, targets the detriment of meeting safety criteria. There is a need to reassess labor management, safety policies, and outsourcing processes. Lack of awareness of the proper use of safety equipment and the organization of the work environment are major causes of work-related accidents. The human factor focuses on the individual, group, organizational, and social dimensions in complex interactions. The identification of social processes between working groups in empirical reality, the influence of elements of culture, organizational management, and their impacts on relations and on safe work performance allows an understanding of social risks.
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ZHENG, Xiazhong, Jianlan ZHOU, Fei WANG, and Yang CHEN. "ROUTES TO FAILURE AND PREVENTION RECOMMENDATIONS IN WORK SYSTEMS OF HYDROPOWER CONSTRUCTION." Journal of Civil Engineering and Management 24, no. 3 (May 25, 2018): 206–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/jcem.2018.1647.
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There are many types of accidents with their own characteristics in hydropower construction. The accidents are mainly results of human errors. It is important to find out the routes to failure and give recommendations pertinently for different accident types. First, 869 accident investigation reports are collected and the human factors are filtered using the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) framework, the norms which link the accident causes and human factors are also explored, the first three accident types are determined by the frequency statistics. The ranking of the factors and the norms of the three accident types is presented using the frequency statistics. The Chi-square, lambda and odds ratios are used to analyze the interdependences between adjacent level factors of three highest frequency accident types. At last, based on the correlation analysis between different human factors, the routes to failure can be determined; containing the norm frequency of factors, the safety recommendations are given to the different accident types pertinently. The results can be auxiliary and effective information for safety managers to conduct scientific and pertinent safety managements.
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Lombardi, Mara, Mario Fargnoli, and Giuseppe Parise. "Risk Profiling from the European Statistics on Accidents at Work (ESAW) Accidents′ Databases: A Case Study in Construction Sites." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 23 (November 27, 2019): 4748. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16234748.
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The number of accidents and victims in the construction sector has not decreased significantly despite the increasingly stricter laws and regulations. The analysis of accidents, as well as their root causes and determinants can certainly contribute to the development of more effective preventive interventions. The present study proposes a methodology for the analysis and synthesis of data provided by accidents statistics with the goal of defining specific risk profiles based on the accidents determinants, their variables, and how they interact with one another in influencing the occurrence of an accident. For this purpose, a procedure capable of extracting this type of information from the European Statistics on Accidents at Work (ESAW) database was developed. In particular, data processing and aggregation are performed by means of the synergic use of the Matrix of Descriptors (MoD) and cluster analysis. To validate such a procedure, the analysis of fatalities due to electrical shocks was carried out. The results achieved allowed us to elicit valuable information for both safety managers and decision makers. The proposed methodology can facilitate a systemic analysis of accidents databases reducing the difficulties in managing reports and accident statistics.
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Nurwahidah. "The Analysis of Occupational Health and Safety of The Ship's Crew on Board in The Enclosed Spaces." PROSIDING POLITEKNIK ILMU PELAYARAN MAKASSAR 1, no. 4 (March 4, 2021): 224–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.48192/prc.v1i4.343.
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The research on enclosed spaces is used to identify the work accidents, availability of the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) equipment as well as the suitability of SOPs used by the Officer to handle the occupational accidents on board.The methodology used to identify the occupational accident in enclosed spaces were quantitative analysis based on some primary data (primary analysis) and secondary data (secondary analysis), by which the author performed the direct observations, interviewed the respondents who experience the accidents and did the literature study.The results confirmed that the enclosed spaces is not used for the activities or daily work by the ship's crew since the rooms have no ventilation, thus the air inhaled is less than 21% by volume and the concentration of hydrocarbon gas is less than 1% of the LFL (Limite Flamble Lower) than the levels of other toxic gases. Based on the interview results of 175 respondents, 93% said the accident was caused by the negligence of the supervision or personal responsibility, 21% said that it was caused by the absence of carbon gas test since there were no tools for detecting the toxic gas (gas detector) and 78% claimed that theyunderstand that the occupational accidents happened in enclosed spaces due to the negligence and procedural error (SOP). Therefore, it can be said that the limitations of knowledge and understanding of the crew, granting permits (work permit) by Officers which was not appropriate, the availability of supporting equipment and the inadequate involvement of shipping companies, the SOP that are not well socialized and the improper handling of accident victims were the causes of the work accidents on board.
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Prokhorov, Dmitry, and Nikita Pavlov. "Accident rate at energy objects in Sakha Republic at low temperatures." E3S Web of Conferences 77 (2019): 03007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20197703007.
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The work analyzes the effect of low temperatures and other climatic factors on the accident rate and reliability of energy facilities. To represent the causes and analyze the consequences in emergency situations at power plants, descriptions of accidents that occurred in the Sakha Republic were collected and considered. For the analysis, examples are chosen that contain more complete descriptions of the various interrelated causes and consequences of accidents. It was revealed that the greatest number of accidents occurs in the period of low temperatures. High accidents in the summer months are also associated with the climatic features of the republic, mainly with accidents in the power supply system: seasonal melting of permafrost, floods, wildfires and in connection with this drop in power transmission lines, overruns and wire breaks due to storm wind and other.
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Rodrigues da Silva, Jacks, David Barbosa de Alencar, Alexandra Priscilla Tregue Costa, and Antônio Estanislau Sanches. "Work Safety Management for Optimization Production Process." International Journal for Innovation Education and Research 7, no. 11 (November 30, 2019): 371–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol7.iss11.1890.
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The safety at work of employees is not always viewed with due importance. However, with the help of technology, such as E-social, the government system that organizes companies to communicate in a unified way as information for their employees, it executes with whom employers comply with strict safety standards. The main objective of this article is to demonstrate that occupational safety management improves accident rates in the company through actions on enforcement methods that are the basic causes of accidents. What's more, quality, management, costs and other values are better through behavioral changes. Within the Thematic service, we seek or develop conscientious and motivated employees, as a safe environment must be in place to support safe working employees. Therefore, after the implant or safety management system, you can reduce a satisfactory reduction of work accidents and get good results in the production process.
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Mohammadfam, Iraj, Mostafa Mirzaei Aliabadi, Ali Reza Soltanian, and Mohsen Mahdinia. "Modeling the causes-effect relationships among major accident predictors based on a fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making method." Work 67, no. 2 (November 9, 2020): 313–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/wor-203281.
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BACKGROUND: Finding the best practices for accident prevention is possible by identifying the influential factors affecting accident occurrence and their interactions as well as implementing corrective actions for the root cause factors. OBJECTIVE: This study was aimed to determine the cause-effect relationships and the interaction of the influential factors affecting accident occurrence and determine the critical root factors. METHODS: This study was carried out based on the opinions of a panel of experts and used the fuzzy DEMATEL method. RESULTS: The results showed that “organization safety attitude”, “safety communication”, “work and safety training” and “safe design of systems” are root cause variables. Also, “work and safety knowledge” and “experience in the job” are individual cause variables. CONCLUSIONS: Organizational factors and some of individual variables are the critical factors that affect the occurrence of accidents. Therefore, corrective actions for accident prevention should primarily focus on the correction of these variables.
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Trianto, Antonius Budi, Muh Yusuf, and Muh Rifai. "Factor Analysis Related to Truck Mixer Driver Work Accident at PT Bosowa Beton Indonesia." International Journal of Science and Healthcare Research 6, no. 3 (July 21, 2021): 79–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.52403/ijshr.20210714.
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Background: Accidents due to work are something that is very difficult for workers to avoid, such as workers, factory employees, truck drivers and other field workers, so that they require more attention from the government, private sector and other employers as well as from the workers themselves. most commonly we often encounter on the road which causes many casualties. This study aims to determine the factors that cause work accidents on mixer truck drivers at PT Bosowa Beton. Methods: This research uses quantitative methods with an analytical approach and a cross sectional study design, with a sample of 60 drivers. Research Result: The variables related to the work accident of the mixer truck driver at PT Bosowa Beton are road conditions (p = 0.000 < = 0.05) and the work fatigue variable (p = 0.009 < = 0.05), as well as the variable working time with value (p = 0.04 < = 0.05) while for variables that are not related to work accidents are vehicle conditions (p = 0.355), ergonomics (p = 0.474) and smoking (p = 1,000). Conclusion: The most dominant cause of work accidents is work fatigue, it is recommended for companies to conduct periodic testing and evaluation of workforce performance to improve work quality and detect early indications of fatigue. Keywords: Work accident and mixer truck driver.
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Alencar, J. R. B., R. A. P. Barbosa, and M. B. De Souza Jr. "EVALUATION OF ACCIDENTS WITH DOMINO EFFECT IN LPG STORAGE AREAS." Revista de Engenharia Térmica 4, no. 1 (June 30, 2005): 08. http://dx.doi.org/10.5380/reterm.v4i1.3541.
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The term domino effect denotes a chain of accidents, or situations, in which a fire/explosion
load generated by an accident in one unit in an industry causes secondary and higher order
accidents in other units. Such chains of accidents have a greater propensity to cause damage
than stand-alone accidents. Most of the past risk assessment studies deal with accident in
a single industry, more so in one of the units of an industry. But, often, accident in one unit
causes a secondary accident in a nearby unit, which in turn may trigger a tertiary accident,
and so on. The probability of occurrence and adverse impacts of such domino or
cascading effects are increasing due to increasing congestion in industrial complexes
and increasing density of human population around such complexes. Accidents with domino
effect are seldom studied. LPG storage areas could produce the worst possible consequences
in the event of an unforeseen incident. This work illustrates the application of models to
evaluate the impacts of events with fire and explosion in LPG tanks on other similar units
in the park and the possibility of occurrence of a domino effect. The criteria for occurrence
of accidents with domino effect adopted in this work were 37.5 kW/m2 in case of fire
radiation and an overpressure of 0.7 atm in explosion cases in a receptor body. The spacing
between LPG tanks was evaluated. The results show that such spacing is minimal and
does not represent, as it should, a parameter indicating a safe distance able to prevent the
propagation of an accident with domino effect.
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Ahn, Young-Joong, Yong-Ung Yu, and Jong-Kwan Kim. "Accident Cause Factor of Fires and Explosions in Tankers Using Fault Tree Analysis." Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 9, no. 8 (August 4, 2021): 844. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jmse9080844.
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Fire and explosion accidents occur frequently in tankers because they transport large quantities of dangerous cargo. To prevent fire and explosion accidents, it is necessary to analyze factors that cause accidents and their effects. In this study, factors that cause fire and explosion accidents were classified using the 4M disaster analysis method, and each factor’s effect on the accident was analyzed using fault tree analysis (FTA). First, the unsafe tank atmosphere environment was identified as a primary cause of fire and explosion accidents in tankers, and the underlying causes of these accidents were investigated. The probability of underlying causes leading to primary causes was derived using an expert survey. The results showed that management and media factors had a greater impact on the unsafe tank atmosphere environment than human factors. To prevent fire and explosion accidents, it is necessary to ensure sufficient working and resting times for seafarers and compliance with procedures and work guidelines. A generalization of the results of present and future studies will enable the identification of the cause and preventive measures for fire and explosion accidents in tankers. Furthermore, this will reduce accidents in tankers and contribute to future safety management measures of ships and companies.
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Rodríguez, Julio Louro, and José Ángel Fraguela Formoso. "Work-Related Accidents in the Maritime Transport Sector." Journal of Navigation 60, no. 2 (April 20, 2007): 303–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0373463307004201.
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This article is partially based on the Doctoral thesis (Reference 1) entitled (in English) Working aboard and job-related accidents: Health and safety conditions on merchant vessel. Divided into four sections, the paper includes: issues relating to legislation, an analysis of accidents, the research that has been done about accidents and risk factors for falling on board. The main causes of accidents are examined. Moreover, conclusions are drawn by analysing work-related accidents in the Spanish maritime transport sector through a study covering the period between 1999 and 2003. The text was updated in 2004, with the latest official data, figures which may be equally applicable to the maritime sector throughout the European Union.
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Jeong, Byung Yong. "Prevalence of occupational accidents and factors associated with deaths and disabilities in the shipbuilding industry: Comparisons of novice and skilled workers." Work 69, no. 3 (July 16, 2021): 997–1005. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/wor-213530.
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BACKGROUND: The shipbuilding industry has various risks such as slipping, falling, mechanical, chemical, and confined space work. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to compare the characteristics of the occupational accidents between novice and skilled workers in the shipbuilding industry and to analyze factors affecting death and disability accidents. METHODS: From the national work-related compensation data of South Korea, an experimental design was established to analyze a population of occupational injuries related to workers working in the shipbuilding industry. This study compares accident characteristics of 2,069 injuries registered as work-related accidents. Also, logistic regression analysis is performed to identify the factors affecting death and disability accidents. RESULTS: The prevalence of occupational accidents caused by novices was high in older workers, female workers, foreign workers, irregular workers, or companies with less than 100 employees. The proportion of source of accident by novices was high in ‘manhole,’‘ladder,’ and ‘scaffold,’ while the prevalence of accident type was high in ‘fall,’ ‘cut/bruise,’ and ‘struck by.’ According to logistic regression analysis, if the face was injured, the possibility of being death or disability was higher than that of other parts of the body. Also, if the rupture caused the injury, the possibility of being death or disability was higher than the different types of injury. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study are expected to be useful as basic data for the prevention of accidents of novice and death/disabilities in the shipbuilding industry.
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Ijaola, Irewolede Aina, Kudirat Ibilola Zakariyyah, Adebimpe Omorinsola Akerele, and Olabosun Hezekiel Omolayo. "Key Indicators and Dimensional Causes of Accident on Construction Sites." International Journal of Built Environment and Sustainability 8, no. 1 (December 29, 2020): 81–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.11113/ijbes.v8.n1.614.
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Diverse causes of accidents abound on construction sites, which lead to complexity and difficulty in understanding the key causes of accidents on construction sites. The effect is the increasing rate of accidents. Thus, grouping and identifying the key dimensional and sub causes of accidents is important. However, there is a dearth of research on the dimensionality and indicators of causal factors of accidents on construction sites. This paper aims to create an avenue for easy identification and understanding of the causes of accidents through the development of key indicators and dimensional causes of accidents on construction sites. Adopting a cross-sectional survey research design, three hundred questionnaires were purposely distributed to construction workers who have had experience or witness accidents on a construction sites. Two hundred questionnaires were retrieved and used for analysis representing a 67% response rate. An exploratory factor analysis was used to group and find the significant causal factors from the 64 factors identified in the literature. From the analysis, five key dimensional causes with 22 indicators were identified namely; personal and work factors, design factors, behavioural factors, proximate factors and attitudinal factors. The key indicators identified among others are non-use of PPE, lack of experience, working in confined spaces, disobedience to work discipline and innovative technology. To reduce the occurrence level of accidents, site managers should place the key indicators and dimensional causal factors of accidents on the signboard for easy identification and understanding and as a training guide on construction sites
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Schmidt, Richard A., Douglas E. Young, Thomas J. Ayres, and Joseph R. Wong. "Pedal Misapplications: Their Frequency and Variety Revealed through Police Accident Reports." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 41, no. 2 (October 1997): 1023–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107118139704100266.
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Earlier work indicated that pedal misapplications, where the right foot contacts the accelerator instead of the brake that was intended, were mainly limited to the start of a driving cycle and the phenomenon of unintended acceleration. Our present work with the North Carolina Police Accident Report database, however, reveals that pedal misapplications are far more frequent causes of accidents than we had believed. We uncovered 219 accidents in which the driver(s) stated that the foot contacted the accelerator rather than the brake. We categorized these accidents in various ways, leading to an initial understanding of the frequency, the mechanisms, and the traffic conditions surrounding these events. Contrary to our expectations, most of the misapplications were classed as “unhurried,” and about half were caused by the foot slipping off the brake. Pedal errors during the driving cycle may occur much more frequently—and for reasons other than those previously proposed—than during start-up.
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Santos, Vanessa Cruz, Karla Ferraz dos Anjos, and Obertal Da Silva Almeida. "Social pathology with emphasis on car accidents." Revista de Enfermagem UFPE on line 4, no. 2 (March 31, 2010): 865. http://dx.doi.org/10.5205/reuol.626-7221-1-le.0402201052.
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ABSTRACT Objective: to describe the most evident factors those are transforming car accidents into a social pathology. Methodology: literature review study and gathering of data through WEB of National Library of Medicine (PubMed) and from the website Virtual Library in Health (Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde — BVS), using the following describers: accident prevention, public health, external causes, risk-taking, damage liability, continuing education and public awareness. Results: the traffic accidents are considered as a public social problem, so, it is necessary to treat them as a pathological picture in which the used drug should be prophylaxis, because the high rate of accident victims in this so-called transit system has become a pandemic. Conclusion: despite high rates of morbidity and mortality caused by this social pathology, it is possible to circumvent the situation through educational strategies and actions that work simultaneously with the awareness and consciousness of each individual who forms the society. It is possible to reduce the triggers of this violence that occurs in the traffic, and even without a comprehensive manner to avoid the facts, the best behavior is the prevention. Descriptors: accident prevention; public health; external causes; risk-taking; damage liability; continuing education; public awareness.RESUMOObjetivo: descrever os fatores mais evidentes que vêm tornando os acidentes de trânsito uma patologia social. Metodologia: estudo de revisão de literatura, com coleta de dados por meio da WEB da National Library of Medicine (PubMed) e do site da Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde — BVS, utilizando os seguintes descritores: prevenção de acidentes, saúde pública, causas externas, comportamento de risco, responsabilidade civil, educação continuada e sensibilização pública. Resultados: os acidentes de trânsito são considerados como problema de saúde pública, então, é preciso tratá-los como um quadro patológico, no qual o medicamento de uso deva ser a profilaxia, pois o alto índice de pessoas acidentadas neste sistema chamado trânsito já se tornou uma pandemia. Conclusão: apesar dos altos índices de morbi-mortalidade causada por essa patologia social, é possível contornar a situação através de estratégias e ações educativas que simultaneamente trabalhem com a sensibilização e conscientização de cada indivíduo formador da sociedade. É possível reduzir os fatores desencadeantes desta violência que ocorre no trânsito, e mesmo não existindo total meio de se evitar, a melhor conduta é a prevenção. Descritores: prevenção de acidentes; saúde pública; causas externas; comportamento de risco; responsabilidade civil; educação continuada; sensibilização pública. RESUMEN Objetivo: describir los factores más evidentes que han hecho de los accidentes de tránsito una patología social. Metodología: estudio de revisión de literatura, con recolecta de datos por medio de la WEB de la National Library of Medicine (PubMed) y del sitio de la Biblioteca Virtual en Salud (BVS), utilizando los siguientes descriptores: prevención de accidentes, salud pública, causas externas, asunción de riesgos, responsabilidad civil, educación continuada y sensibilización pública. Resultados: los accidentes de tránsito son considerados como problema de salud pública, entonces, hay que tratarlos como un cuadro patológico, en el que el medicamento de uso deba ser la profilaxia, pues el alto índice de personas accidentadas en este sistema llamado tránsito ya se volvió una pandemia. Conclusión: a pesar de los altos índices de morbimortalidad causada por esa patología social, es posible contornar la situación a través de estrategias y acciones educativas que simultáneamente trabajen con la sensibilización y concienciación de cada individuo formador de la sociedad. Es posible reducir los factores desencadenantes de esta violencia que ocurre en el tránsito, y aunque no exista total medio de evitarse, la mejor conducta es la prevención. Descriptores: prevención de accidentes; salud pública; causas externas; asunción de riesgos; responsabilidad civil; educación continua; sensibilización pública.
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Elsye, Vania, Yusuf Latief, and Leni Sagita. "Development of Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Standard for Producing the Risk Based Structural Work Safety Plan Of Building." MATEC Web of Conferences 147 (2018): 06003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201814706003.
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A construction project is inseparable from a series of tasks in the form of activities. Activities that take place on a project can be disrupted due to various reasons, one of the causes of the disruption of project activities are accidents on construction projects. The risk of workplace accidents can be prevented with early identification and analysis of the potential danger that exist in every activity contained in the project’s WBS. The need for a standardized WBS in preventing the risk of workplace accidents is very important because it would present a risk assessment, impact and frequency arising from workplace accidents. The aim of this study is to develop a risk-based WBS standard particularly for structural work, by using a qualitative approach. The results of this research are WBS standard for building, source of potentially dangerous risk at structural work, and the development of safety plan using a risk-based WBS that has been standardized, as a form of prevention, reduction or even nullify the risk of workplace accidents (to obtain zero accidents) during construction project implementation.
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Halusiak, Sławomir. "The analysis of the state of OSH at the use of forklifts in Poland." Occupational Safety – Science and Practice 576, no. 9 (September 20, 2019): 7–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.4542.
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The increase of the number of forklifts is associated with the elevated threat of accidents and dangerous situations that should be systematically analyzed. On the occasion of the assessment, it is worth using accident ratios for given devices and dangerous situations. The article presents the results of research into the causes and effects of accidents at work of forklift trucks’ operators in 2011÷2017. The most serious accident occurred in the case of: loss of stability of the forklift truck at the bend, crush caused by the truck, impact by the truck’s load, impact by the truck itself. Most injuries arose in the case of: overturning when reversing the truck, overrunning employees’ leg, crush by the truck or its load, impact by the truck. The safety of work of the forklift trucks operators under full supervision has improved. Errors in the operation of trucks increased, which requires more frequent verification of operators' skills and the increase of their awareness of hazards.
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Liang Cheng, Schon Z. Y., Rosa Maria Arnaldo Valdés, Víctor Fernando Gómez Comendador, and Francisco Javier Sáez Nieto. "Detection of Common Causes between Air Traffic Serious and Major Incidents in Applying the Convolution Operator to Heinrich Pyramid Theory." Entropy 21, no. 12 (November 28, 2019): 1166. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21121166.
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Heinrich’s pyramid theory is one of the most influential theories in accident and incident prevention, especially for industries with high safety requirements. Originally, this theory established a quantitative correlation between major injury accidents, minor injury accidents and no-injury accidents. Nowadays, researchers from different fields of engineering also apply this theory in establishing quantitatively the correlation between accidents and incidents. In this work, on the one hand, we have detected the applicability of this theory by studying incident reports of different severities occurred in air traffic management. On the other hand, we have deepened the analysis of this theory from a qualitative perspective. For this purpose, we have applied the convolution operator in identifying correlations between contributing causes to different incident severities, also known as precursors to accidents, and system failures. The results suggested that system failures are mechanisms by which the causes are manifested. In particular, the same underlying cause can be manifested through different failures which contribute to incidents with different severities. Finally, deriving from this result, an artificial neuronal network model is proposed to recognize future causes and their possible associated incident severities.
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Othman, Idris, Rafe Majid, Hisham Mohamad, Nasir Shafiq, and Madzlan Napiah. "Variety of Accident Causes in Construction Industry." MATEC Web of Conferences 203 (2018): 02006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201820302006.
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Construction Industry is a high risk industry and widely recognised as one of most hazardous occupation in the world. The statistic of accidents in Malaysia give us a picture that Malaysian construction industry is one of the dangerous sectors that need a drastic overhaul from the current site safety practices. This paper describes a review of the accident causes occurred in construction site by various researchers during the last twenty (20) years. This paper discusses the accident causes in Malaysia construction works and entire world. The data collected shows that variety of accident causes in construction industry either in Malaysia or other country.
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Strzelecka, Agnieszka, Marzena Pytel-Kopczyńska, and Milan Droppa. "Accident at Work as an Indicator Supporting the Decision Making Process." System Safety: Human - Technical Facility - Environment 1, no. 1 (March 1, 2019): 85–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/czoto-2019-0011.
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AbstractIdentification of trends of the examined phenomenon plays a major role in taking decisions and allows conducting a deeper analysis of phenomena connected with the shaping of proper working conditions. One of the result indicators in the OSH system is the accident rate, whose existence is the result of a combination of various events. Seeking tangible economic benefits, decision makers in business entities who wish to improve activities protecting health and life of employees, pay great attention to using quantitative methods and drawing conclusions from them. This is conditioned by the fact that the analysis of the economic aspects of accidents is connected to a large extent with the cost of benefits the employer incurs for the benefit of accident victims. Therefore, the main goal of the article is to examine what impact on the cost of benefits due to accidents at work is exerted by such factors as: the number of related benefits, persons injured in accidents at work depending on the consequences and the number of days of inability to work caused by these accidents. Furthermore, this paper shows changes in costs of accident benefits of persons receiving those benefits due to inability to work caused by accident in business. In order to achieve this, it is proposed to present an econometric analysis based on the cross-section-time data with the dynamics of considered variables in voivodeships in Poland being examined. The study uses the annual data for the years 2010-2017. The data come from the CSO publications.
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Ivascu, Larisa, Muddassar Sarfraz, Muhammad Mohsin, Sobia Naseem, and Ilknur Ozturk. "The Causes of Occupational Accidents and Injuries in Romanian Firms: An Application of the Johansen Cointegration and Granger Causality Test." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 14 (July 18, 2021): 7634. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18147634.
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Organizational risks are present in any activity, so it is important to manage them properly. The jobs are dynamic and involve a series of processes and activities. The entire human resource is exposed to several risks. If these risks are approached correctly, the organizational capacity to achieve its objectives and vision will increase considerably. This paper aims to investigate the relationships between work accidents (fatal and non-fatal) and the causes that contribute to their occurrence (causes dependent on the executor, causes dependent on the means of production, workload-dependent causes, and work-dependent causes—the work environment). The augmented Dickey–Fuller (ADF) test is employed to check the data stationarity series, while the Johansen test determines the cointegration relation of variables. The data have been collected from Romanian organizations. The vector error correction model (VECM) and Granger causality test are applied for speed of adjustment, nature, and direction of variables’ relationship. This research demonstrated that both data series are free from the unit-root problem at first difference. The lag length criterions select the third lag for model fitness, and Johansen cointegration declares that variables are cointegrated for the long term. The vector error correction model shows the speed of adjustment from the short to the long run is 83.35% and 42.60% for work and fatal accidents. The study results show that fatal accidents have a series relationship with selected cases for the short run and have a long-run relationship with the means of production. Fatal accidents are directly related to means of production. Fatal accidents are not designed by executors, workload-dependent causes, or work environments in the short run. Fatal accidents are directly related to the means of production and sudden incidents happening in the long run. Fatal accidents are considered by executors, workload-dependent causes, or work environments in the short run. In the long run, fatal accidents are directly related to the means of production and sudden incidents happening.
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Dumrak, Jantanee, Sherif Mostafa, Imriyas Kamardeen, and Raufdeen Rameezdeen. "Factors associated with the severity of construction accidents: The case of South Australia." Construction Economics and Building 13, no. 4 (December 11, 2013): 32–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ajceb.v13i4.3620.
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While the causes of accidents in the construction industry have been extensively studied, severity remains an understudied area. In order to provide more evidence for the currently limited number of empirical investigations on severity, this study analysed 24,764 construction accidents reported during 2002-11 in South Australia. A conceptual model developed through literature uses personal characteristics such as age, experience, gender and language. It also employs work-related factors such as size of organization, project size and location, mechanism of accident and body location of the injury. These were shown to discriminate why some accidents result in only a minor severity while others are fatal. Factors such as time of accident, day of the week and season were not strongly associated with accident severity. When the factors affecting severity of an accident are well understood, preventive measures could be developed specifically to those factors that are at high risk.
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Sensogut, Cem, Ozer Oren, and Yasar Kasap. "Analysis of the recent occupational accidents occurred at Western Lignite Corporation (Turkey) by data envelopment analysis." International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Safety 3, no. 3 (November 15, 2019): 34–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.24840/2184-0954_003.003_0004.
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Developments of countries are interpreted through many parameters. One of the most important parameters according to the order of importance is perhaps the occupational accidents. Especially in recent years, work related (or occupational) accidents occurred at different sectors did not decrease; they even increased despite the developments in the technology and emphasis made on the regulations. This situation can be interpreted as an open debate in which the employees still do not internalize the work they do. Often, enterprises do not choose the right personnel for the job or the personnel chosen are not oriented to the work with the through proper methods. When the mining sector is taken into account, this problem becomes even clearer. Among the many reasons for this problem, it can firstly be mentioned about the difficulty of employing qualified and well-educated personnel. Since the enterprises do not have many options in the solution of this problem, their approach to work accidents should be institutionally a highest priority. During this process they must also use proactive approaches. For example, all accidents and occupational diseases should be recorded, possible causes of them should be put forth, and statistical analysis should be conducted to guide the future of the institution.
In this study, the work accidents took place in both underground and surface facilities at Western Lignite Corporation (WLC) which is one of the most important lignite producers in Turkey between the years 2014 and 2018 were analyzed by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The types of accidents were also examined and interpreted using the information obtained from the calculation of accident frequency, accident weight and accident probability rates. With the sensitivity analysis realized, it was tried to draw attention to the occupational safety measures to be made in the future.
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Moral-García, Serafín, Javier Castellano, Carlos Mantas, Alfonso Montella, and Joaquín Abellán. "Decision Tree Ensemble Method for Analyzing Traffic Accidents of Novice Drivers in Urban Areas." Entropy 21, no. 4 (April 3, 2019): 360. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21040360.
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Presently, there is a critical need to analyze traffic accidents in order to mitigate their terrible economic and human impact. Most accidents occur in urban areas. Furthermore, driving experience has an important effect on accident analysis, since inexperienced drivers are more likely to suffer fatal injuries. This work studies the injury severity produced by accidents that involve inexperienced drivers in urban areas. The analysis was based on data provided by the Spanish General Traffic Directorate. The information root node variation (IRNV) method (based on decision trees) was used to get a rule set that provides useful information about the most probable causes of fatalities in accidents involving inexperienced drivers in urban areas. This may prove useful knowledge in preventing this kind of accidents and/or mitigating their consequences.
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Drozd, Wojciech, and Marcin Kowalik. "Drzewa decyzyjne w analizie wypadkowości w budownictwie." Przegląd Naukowy Inżynieria i Kształtowanie Środowiska 26, no. 2 (June 2, 2017): 226–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.22630/pniks.2017.26.2.21.
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The construction site and its elements create circumstances that are conducive to the formation of risks to work safety during the execution of works. Analysis indicates the critical importance of these factors in the set of characteristics that describe the causes of accidents in the construction industry. This article attempts to analyse the characteristics of the construction site to indicate their importance in defining the circumstances of an accident at work. The research was carried out on the basis of data from the register kept by the District Labour Inspectorate in Krakow. Main substantive tasks include isolating patterns of accidents on the site and identifying those of the analysed characteristics that are important in defining these patterns. In terms of methodology, the dissertation presents method of analysing data resources: using statistical classifiers – decision trees algorithm.
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Young, Stephen L., and Lobat Hashemi. "Fatigue and Trucking Accidents: Two Modes of Accident Causation." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 40, no. 18 (October 1996): 952–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154193129604001819.
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The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board investigated 113 heavy-truck accidents to determine “the role of specific factors, such as drivers' patterns of duty and sleep, in fatigue-related heavy truck accidents” (NTSB, 1995a). For a number of reasons, we believed that a re-analysis of this data, with a different set of variables, might yield a more complete picture regarding the nature of fatigue-related accidents and their causes. Specifically, principal components analysis was employed to determine the underlying factors that contributed to accidents where fatigue was determined to be the primary cause. In this analysis, two principal components were extracted that dealt with (1) the nature of the driver's sleep periods and level of experience, and (2) aspects of the driver's work periods. Subsequent cluster analysis demonstrated that the cases could be divided into two distinct accident modes or types: those with and those without regular sleep/work patterns. Drivers with generally regular sleep/work patterns appeared to develop fatigue while on the job, while those with irregular sleep/work patterns appeared to arrive at the job already fatigued. In conclusion, the variables which contributed to fatigue in the NTSB report were found to contribute to fatigue in the present analysis, but not to the same extent in all cases. Some of the variables that influenced driver fatigue in one of the clusters (or accident modes) had no effect on the other. These different accident modes should be considered when examining the effect of a given variable on fatigue.
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Handayani, Dwi Iryaning, and Tri Prihatiningsih. "MULTI KRITERIA TERHADAP PENILAIAN PENYEBAB KEJADIAN RISIKO KECELAKAAN KERJA UNTUK PROYEK KONTRUKSI DENGAN METODE ANALYTICAL NETWORK PROCESS." J@ti Undip : Jurnal Teknik Industri 13, no. 1 (March 27, 2018): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/jati.13.1.27-36.
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AbstrakPermasalahan K3 di Indonesia masih kurang diperhatikan, padahal sektor konstruksi merupakan sektor yang berisiko terhadap kecelakaan kerja disamping sektor lainnya. Banyak faktor yang dapat memicu penyebab terjadinya risiko kecelakaan kerja. Oleh karena itu penting untuk diketahui potensi penyebab terjadinya risiko kecelakaan kerja sehingga tujuan penelitian ini melakukan penilaian penyebab risiko kecelakaan kerja pada proyek kontruksi. Metode yang digunakan untuk melakukan penilaian tersebut dengan metode ANP menggunakan sofware Matlab. Penyebab terjadinya risiko K3 pada bidang kontruksi didominasi oleh kriteria struktur 44% dibandingkan dengan kriteria persiapan 17%, kriteria sub struktur 21% dan kriteria finishing 19%. Penyebab risiko kecelakaan kerja yang paling besar disebabkan oleh faktor manusia 77%, faktor ini disebabkan karena perilaku tidak aman meliputi kurang pengetahuan K3, pekerja kurang disiplin, pekerja tidak menggunakan APD, komitmen K3 kurang, tidak mengikuti pelatihan K3, kesalahan transformasi informasi, Metode kontruksi tidak benar, Pondasi scaffolding tidak padat pada tempat yang datar. Sedangkan penyebab kecelakaan kerja lainnya seperti scaffolding ambruk, kabel terkena air konsleting, kabel terkelupas, tersentuh aliran listrik, lokasi becek, lumpur, amblas. Upaya dalam pengendalian risiko kecelakaan kerja yaitu perbaikan manajemen K3 dan pelatihan K3 dalam meningkatkan komitmen K3 dengan adanya pengendalian risiko diharapkan dapat meminimalkan risiko (zero accident) pada pekerjaan kontruksi. Abstract[Multi Criteria On the Assessment of Accidents Causes in Occupational Risk in Construction Project By Analytical Network Process Method] Even though the construction sector is a sector with high risk of occupational accidents beside other sectors, the problem of occupational health and safety (OHS) in contruction sector is still gaining less attention in Indonesia. Many factors can trigger the cause of occupational accidents risk. Therefore, it is important to understand the potential causes of occupational accidents risk. This research is intended to assess the risk of occupational accidents on construction projects. We use analytical network process (ANP) method running on Matlab software to perform the assessment. It is found that the cause of risk in OHS for construction sector is dominated by structure criterion (44%), followed by preparation criterion (17%), sub-structure criterion (21%) and finishing criterion (19%). The biggest cause of occupational accidents is human factor by 77%, this factor is caused by unsafety behavior which include lack of knowledge in OHS, indisciplined workers, ignoring the use of personal protective equipment (PPE), lack of commitment in practicing OHS, no OHS training, missinformation, incorrect construction method, and scaffolding foundation is not solid on a flat area. While the cause of other occupational accidents includes collapsing scaffolding, wires exposed to water, peeled cable, unintentional touch of electrical current, muddy site, mud, and avalanche. Some efforts in controlling the risk of occupational accidents includes improving OHS management and OHS training to improve OHS commitment. It is expected that by controlling the risk, accidents in contruction work can be minimized (zero accident).Keywords: Assessment; Risk Causes; Work Accidents.
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Mares, Radu Emil, Mariana Nagy, and Ioan Radu. "Using the event tree analysis in the investigation of a work accident." MATEC Web of Conferences 305 (2020): 00088. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/202030500088.
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Work accidents occur when the system doesn’t work properly and the safety barriers are avoided. The analysis of such events can be made by different methods. This paper aims at demonstrating how a work accident can be investigated by the use of the Events’ Tree decision method. Applying the steps of the algorithm, the method leads to determinate the causes of a work accident that occurs during the starting procedure of an equipment. By building the events’ tree, a graphical representation of the operations and decisions lead to a logical framework that explains the work accident. The case study consists of the description, analysis, investigation and mitigation of a work accident that occurred at the Rehabilitation of a road in Arad County. Using the Events’ Tree decision method, the cause of the accident was found to be the weak training of the operator and the carelessness of the job manager.
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Pichugin, Sergiy, and Lina Dmytrenko. "Building Accident Causes at a Stage of Construction and Acceptance in Operation." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 3.2 (June 20, 2018): 311. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i3.2.14426.
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This work covers the consequences of accidents in buildings and structures during the process of construction and acceptance in operation. Attention is focused on the frequency of repetition of this type of accidents, using the graph of the structures’ operation stages. The article describes and analyzes such incidents related to construction. Information on accidents was collected using various sources of information: Internet resources, literary sources, scientific works, as well as reports from the world's journalistic services. The findings are presented more than the past ten years and cover construction incidents around the world. The material is systematized and presented in the form of a table on the basis of which the corresponding diagrams are constructed. The result of the study is the relevant conclusions about the typification of accidents during construction and their regularities. The most common causes of accidents are identified, which allow to obtain more detailed study of the problem and further provide for cases of such accidents at the construction site. Attention is focused on the dependence of the construction’s quality at the level of the country's welfare. In addition, the conclusions contain the main tasks for the solution of this problem and ways of their implementation.
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Kim, Kwan Woo. "Characteristics of forklift accidents in korean industrial sites." Work 68, no. 3 (March 26, 2021): 679–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/wor-203402.
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BACKGROUND: Although using forklifts in industrial sites contributes to productivity, many workers have been injured or killed owing to industrial accidents caused by forklifts. OBJECTIVE: This study analyzed the characteristics of forklift accidents by employment type and work process, thereby identifying the factors contributing to industrial accidents and providing recommendations to prevent accidents. METHODS: Data on 1,061 industrial forklift accidents occurring in 2018 collected from the national injury insurance compensation database were analyzed. In addition to analyzing the accident characteristics, this study performed a risk assessment per forklift work process. RESULTS: Many accidents were associated with older workers, those employed for < 6 months, and workplaces with ≤49 workers. The risk was the highest for accidents involving caught-in objects in the loading/unloading step and collision accidents in the forward- and backward-driving steps. CONCLUSIONS: Measures are needed to prevent industrial forklift accidents. First, forklift and worker movement routes must be strictly separated or controlled by a work supervisor. It is necessary to secure a time margin for workers to avoid collapsing cargo by using an appropriate tool/jig during loading/unloading. Second, guidance, inspection, and support are needed to promote employers’ safety and health awareness in workplaces with < 50 workers. Lastly, intensive education and training concerning health and safety is required for workers with less than six months of experience.
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Samia, Chettouh, Rachida Hamzi, and Mourad Chebila. "Contribution of the lessons learned from oil refining accidents to the industrial risks assessment." Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal 29, no. 4 (June 11, 2018): 643–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/meq-07-2017-0067.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to employ lessons learned from the industrial accidents in Skikda refinery during the period from 2005 to 2016 as input data for the numerical simulation of risk consequences to identify the exposed areas to the various effects of industrial accidents.Design/methodology/approachIn order to assess how the lessons learned can contribute to modeling the accidents effects in the refining activities, this paper presents a combined statistical/dynamic approach that combines two main tools, namely, lessons learned from petroleum refining in Algeria and Areal Locations of Hazardous Atmospheres software.FindingsThe results showed that fire is the most frequent accident at Skikda refinery that is mainly caused by equipment failures with a frequent involvement of crude oil and LNG. The NO2toxic effects are unacceptable. This means that in the case of a similar accident, the entire population will be exposed to an intolerable concentration of NO2. Therefore, people must be relocated to a safer place. The results indicate that the concentration threshold can be met beyond the distance of 1 km.Research limitations/implicationsDue to the economic importance of Skikda refinery and the absence of data related to the accidents in the refineries of Algiers, Arzew and Hassi Messaoud, this study is limited to the statistical analysis of accidents related to Skikda refinery.Practical implicationsThis approach makes the risk assessment more practical and effective for the appropriate utilization of safety barriers and for the whole decision-making process.Originality/valueThis work presents a review paper of accidents that occurred in the oil-refining sector in Algeria, whose objective is learning lessons from past accidents history, by identifying their immediate causes and effects on personnel, equipment and environment in order to propose prevention measures. The novelty of this work is highlighted by the fact that this statistical analysis of oil and gas refining accident is realized for the first time in Algeria. This is due to the difficulty of obtaining data on accidents in the Algerian refining sector; for this reason, the authors have limited the study to the Skikda refinery.
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Majumdar, A., K. Mak, C. Lettington, and P. Nalder. "A causal factors analysis of helicopter accidents in New Zealand 1996-2005 and the United Kingdom 1986-2005." Aeronautical Journal 113, no. 1148 (October 2009): 647–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001924000003316.
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Abstract Helicopter accidents cause many fatalities, and their avoidance is a major area of work for Civil Aviation safety authorities around the World. This paper uses helicopter accident data from the United Kingdom between 1986 and 2005 for 566 accidents and from New Zealand between 1996 and 2006 for 230 accidents to analyse helicopter accidents according to five categories of causes: airworthiness failure (engine); airworthiness failure (non-engine), operational failure, maintenance failure and mixed failure (i.e. operational and airworthiness combined). Factors associated with accidents, e.g. the engine types and weights of the helicopters involved; the nature of the operations and the phase of flight of the helicopter are also analysed. Operational failures were further analysed by Human Factors Analysis and Classification Scheme (HFACS) and airworthiness failures by a logical scheme of helicopter components. The results indicate that operational failures, especially due to unsafe acts, are the major cause of accidents in both countries followed by airworthiness causes. Light single piston helicopters are by far the major group associated with accidents in both countries, with few accidents for twin turbine helicopters. The majority of accidents were in non-public operations with few in public operations and in both countries, the cruise/flight/circuit phase has the largest number of accidents. Further analyses indicated statistically significant associations: type of helicopter and the cause of accidents; type of helicopter and the phase of flight; cause of accidents and nature of flights; cause of accidents and phase of flights; training flights and inadequate supervision; landing and procedural error and cruise and attention failure.
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Cabral, Lenz Alberto Alves, Zaida Aurora Sperli Geraldes Soler, and José Carlos Lopes. ""Dual causation accident": a third type of work-related accident and its importance for occupational health surveillance." Ciência & Saúde Coletiva 19, no. 12 (December 2014): 4699–708. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1413-812320141912.07722013.
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The scope of this study is to contribute to the improvement of Occupational Health Surveillance in the Unified Health System (UHS), through the recognition and inclusion of a third type of work-related accident in the current Brazilian legislation classification: the dual causation accident. This classification aims at facilitating the establishment of a causal connection, thus broadening the understanding of the relationship between work process and the production of diseases. It also aims at improving legal rules to protect the health of workers. This approach, besides enabling the identification of sentinel events (starting point of surveillance activities), might contribute not only to a decrease in underreporting of work-related accidents, but also to the uniformity of concepts and the implementation of integrated actions of the National Social Security Institute (NISS), the UHS, the Ministry of Labor (MLE) and the Judiciary for the protection of workers. To propose a third type of occupational accident, a study of occupational accidents and causes of underreporting was conducted, with reference to the Brazilian labor legislation in the context of the National Policy on Occupational Health and the UHS.
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Drozd, W. "Cluster Analysis in Research of Accident Rate in Construction Sector." Archives of Civil Engineering 64, no. 3 (September 1, 2018): 159–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ace-2018-0036.
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AbstractThe construction site and its elements create circumstances that are conducive to the formation of risks to work safety during the execution of works. Analysis indicates the critical importance of these factors in the set of characteristics that describe the causes of accidents in the construction industry. This paper attempts to analyse the characteristics of the construction site to indicate their importance in defining the circumstances of an accident at work. The research was carried out on the basis of data from the register kept by the District Labour Inspectorate in Krakow, Poland. Main substantive tasks include isolating patterns of accidents on site and identifying those of the analysed characteristics that are important in defining these patterns. In terms of methodology, the paper presents a method of analysing data resources by using means of conceptual grouping in the form of cluster analysis.