McKay, L J; Gibb, A G F; Haslam, R and Pendlebury, M (2003) The development of an accident causal model for off-site production in construction. In: Greenwood, D J (ed.) Proceedings of 19th Annual ARCOM Conference, 3-5 September 2003, Brighton, UK.
Abstract
The major objective of construction health and safety prevention systems is to eliminate the risk of adverse health and safety occurrence. The advent of off-site production (OSP) has introduced a new challenge for the management of health and safety. This paper is one of a series of papers on health and safety driven research. It will present the theoretical foundation of the development of an accident causation model based on an extension of an existing generic health and safety model created for traditional construction. The Model identifies the correlation between the three primary shaping factors and the type of issues that dominate accident causality in OSP. This paper explains what further measures OSP manufacturers still need to take.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | causation model; manufacturing; health and safety; off site production; standardization |
| Index terms: | manufacturer, health and safety, traditional construction, prevention, standardization, off-site production |
| Subjects: | practitioner, performance measurement, manufacturing engineering, health safety and environment, financial risk, heritage and conservation |
| Topics: | Quality Management, Design Practice, Engineering Principles, Health and Safety, Cost Management, Roles and Professions |
| Descriptive scope: | 2 PC |
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