Sooksil, N and Benjaoran, V (2014) Validation of construction safety equilibrium model on high-rise building construction project in Thailand. In: Raiden, A and Aboagye-Nimo, E (eds.) Proceedings of 30th Annual ARCOM Conference, 1-3 September 2014, Portsmouth, UK.
Abstract
Construction work involves a lot of work processes which are subjected to change according to project-specific requirements and context. These changes can cause accident hazards which require workforce management to balance task demand with worker capability. This research proposed the construction safety equilibrium model which was based on the car accident model. This study investigated the factors that influence task demand and capability, and also determined the weight of each factor by the Analytic Hierarchical Process via interviewing construction safety experts. The 15 accident case studies of workers who worked in high-rise building construction projects were applied for validation of the model. The research came up with two results: 1) the highest weight of the main factor of task demand contributed to the work behaviour factor and rule of safety was the most weighted sub-factor; for capability, the dominant main factor was the human factor and frustration was the highest weighted for the sub-factor; and 2) the average task demand level and the average capability level of the sample group was 1.99 and 1.77 of 3.00 point scale. These scores reflect the work that workers were performing when the accidents occurred were too difficult and did not match their capabilities according to the principle of construction safety equilibrium.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | capability; construction safety; safety equilibrium; task demand |
| Index terms: | Thailand, human factor, validation, construction safety, construction project, construction work, case study, high-rise building |
| Subjects: | production management, data collection methods, operations management, Geography, occupational health and safety management, construction type, environmental health, professional development |
| Topics: | Geographical Context, Research Practice, Sustainability, Project Management, Construction Technology, Information Management, Health and Safety |
| Descriptive scope: | 3 PCE |
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