An exploration into the implications of the 'compensation culture'on construction safety

D Oswald, F Sherratt, S Smith, A Dainty - Safety science, 2018 - Elsevier
In UK society there has been a growing perception that unjustified, frivolous or fraudulent
legal claims are being made following safety accidents or incidents, in what has become …

Case-based reasoning approach for assessing safety performance using safety-related measures

E Pereira, U Hermann, SU Han… - Journal of Construction …, 2018 - ascelibrary.org
Although the use of safety-related measures (SRM) has been advocated in the literature,
construction companies often rely on reactive indicators instead of SRM to evaluate safety …

Finding differences among construction companies management practices and their relation to project performance

T Castillo, LF Alarcón… - Journal of Management in …, 2018 - riunet.upv.es
[EN] The performance of construction companies is linked to the performance of their
projects because their financial success and the satisfaction of their clients depends on it …

[HTML][HTML] Discrepancies between implementation and perceived effectiveness of leading safety indicators in the US dairy product manufacturing industry

P Van Derlyke, LS Marin, M Zreiqat - Safety and health at work, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Background In the United States, the dairy product manufacturing industry has
consistently had higher rates of work-related nonfatal injuries and illnesses compared to the …

Modelling prefabricated construction safety

R Masood - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Prefabricated construction is expanding and taking over traditional construction with more
intervention of prefabricated building elements. Despite prefabricated construction reducing …

A framework for developing environmental justice indicators

GR Browne, LD Gunn, M Davern - Standards, 2022 - mdpi.com
Environmental justice (EJ) is a broad discipline that attempts to understand and redress
unfair exposure to unhealthy environmental conditions. EJ is often made measurable with …

Distributed simulation–based analytics approach for enhancing safety management systems in industrial construction

E Pereira, M Ali, L Wu, S Abourizk - Journal of construction …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
Although methods for assessing and simulating the influence of safety-related measures on
safety performance have been proposed, practical applications remain limited. Data …

Simulation-based analysis of occupational health and safety continuous improvement (OHSCI) in modern construction and infrastructure industries

M Alkaissy, M Arashpour, A Rashidi… - Automation in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Current advances in the theory and practice of construction and infrastructure worksite safety
are supported by effective decision-making to identify and minimize hazards and risks. The …

Integrating case-based reasoning and simulation modeling for testing strategies to control safety performance

E Pereira, SU Han, S AbouRizk - Journal of Computing in Civil …, 2018 - ascelibrary.org
Assessment models capable of determining the impact of various safety-related scenarios
on safety performance have been developed and described in the literature. In spite of this …

Safety Assessment in Road Construction Work System Based on Group AHP‐PCA

X Zhang, S Huang, S Yang, R Tu… - … Problems in Engineering, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The effectiveness and the safety of road construction depend on many factors that pose the
greatest risk to system safety. The aim of this study is to conduct a comprehensive …