Workplace Accident

NO | ARTICLE TITLE | AUTHOR | JOURNAL NAME | INTRODUCTION | IV | DV | LITERATURE REVIEW | METHODOLOGY | FINDING | CONCLUSION | FUTURE RESEARCH |

1 | The Unsafe Acts and the Decision-to-Err Factors of Thai Construction Workers. | Thanet Aksorn and B.H.W. Hadikusumo | Journal of Construction in Developing Countries, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2007 | The unsafe acts of workers are considered as major contributors of work-related accidents and injuries on construction sites. | 1). Personal factor2.) Job factor3.) Management factor4.) Workgroup factor | Occurrence of unsafeActs | In construction, it is suggested that unsafe act is the most significant factor in the cause of site accident. | Quantitative (questionnaires) | 1.) failure of workers to wear personal protectiveequipment (PPE), improper lifting or handling of materials, and keeping sharp objects in dangerous locations, are the major unsafe acts which frequentlyoccur on construction sites | Inexperienced workers tend to ignore wearing PPE, and work in dangerous positions rather than the experienced ones, whereas, experienced workers tend to be more frequent in leaving nails or other sharp objects in dangerous locations. | This study could be broadened to perform aboarder study to investigate the relationships between the occurrences of unsafe acts and site safety performance(e.g., accident rate). |

2 | Trend and Causes of Fatal Accidents in the US Construction Industry. | Gouranga Banik, Ph.D., P.E. | Southern Polytechnic State University Marietta, GA 30060, USA. | Construction workers experience more fatal and nonfatal injuries from accidents requiring them to take time off more than workers of other industries. It is important to providing the basis for targeting and evaluating problems to prevent the occurrence of the most serious workplace injuries and illnesses, defining the key causes of accidents enables the industry to measure the effects of their productivity and economic performance. | 1.) Fall from/ through...