Strategies for achieving excellence in construction safety performance

EJ Jaselskis, SD Anderson… - Journal of construction …, 1996 - ascelibrary.org
This paper provides strategies for improving construction safety performance through the
analysis of numerical profiles of companies and projects with varying levels of safety …

Construction-safety best practices and relationships to safety performance

J Hinze, M Hallowell, K Baud - Journal of construction engineering …, 2013 - ascelibrary.org
The construction industry has experienced a great deal of safety improvement after the
Congress passed the Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970. In the last twenty years …

Analysing the underlying factors affecting safety performance in building construction

JBH Yap, WK Lee - Production Planning & Control, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The Malaysian construction industry is stigma-laden 'dangerous, dirty and difficult'(3 D) with
a high number of blue-collar foreign workers. Poor safety performance is undermining the …

Managing industrial construction safety in southeast Texas

RS Harper, E Koehn - Journal of construction engineering and …, 1998 - ascelibrary.org
The construction industry on average has a higher rate of occupational injury than most
other industries. However, steps can be taken to reduce worker risk through the effective …

Prospective safety performance evaluation on construction sites

X Wu, Q Liu, L Zhang, MJ Skibniewski… - Accident Analysis & …, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a systematic Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) based approach for
Prospective Safety Performance Evaluation (PSPE) on construction sites, with causal …

Construction safety risk mitigation

MR Hallowell, JA Gambatese - Journal of Construction Engineering …, 2009 - ascelibrary.org
Construction safety and health management has improved significantly following the
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. In response to this legislation, contractors …

Population and initial validation of a formal model for construction safety risk management

MR Hallowell, JA Gambatese - Journal of Construction Engineering …, 2010 - ascelibrary.org
The transient, unique, and complex nature of construction projects makes safety
management exceptionally difficult. Most construction safety efforts are applied in an …

[PDF][PDF] Construction safety management systems and methods of safety performance measurement: A review

E Jazayeri, GB Dadi - Journal of Safety Engineering, 2017 - researchgate.net
The construction industry experiences high injury and fatality rates and is far from achieving
a zero-injury goal. Thus, effective safety management systems are critical to ongoing efforts …

Safety management: problems encountered and recommended solutions

JM Wilson, EE Koehn - Journal of construction engineering and …, 2000 - ascelibrary.org
The philosophy of safety management is a relatively new method of controlling safety
policies, procedures, and practices within a company. This philosophy is currently being …

Critical success factors for construction safety: Review and meta-analysis of safety leading indicators

WM Alruqi, MR Hallowell - Journal of construction engineering and …, 2019 - ascelibrary.org
Safety leading indicators are measures of the safety management system that correlate with
injury rates. The literature on the topic is dispersed and equivocal in the definition …