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Breakout Session Summary Construction

Breakout Session Summary Construction. November 1-2, 2007. Overall Construction Trends. Construction accounted for 1226 fatal work injuries, the most of any industry Construction had 4 th highest industry fatality rate (10.8 per 100,000)

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Breakout Session Summary Construction

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  1. Breakout Session Summary Construction November 1-2, 2007

  2. Overall Construction Trends • Construction accounted for 1226 fatal work injuries, the most of any industry • Construction had 4th highest industry fatality rate (10.8 per 100,000) • Total (2006) represented a 3 percent increase over 2005 total • Falls account for the greatest percentage of fatalities • Fatality rates for contracted employees not under supervision of organization significantly higher than employees

  3. Organizational Consistency With Trends • Industry group findings not consistent with 2nd leading cause of fatalities – Transportation • Industry group data not consistent with overall industry fatality rate (10.8) – variation between construction of building, heavy & civil, and specialty trade contractors (BLS data accuracy) • Industry group downward recordable and lost time incident trends & no fatality trend changes consistent with BLS data

  4. Most Significant Contributing Causes • Language/cultural/educational barriers that results in workers not proficient with project requirements and associated rules • Scheduling & work hours that conflict with safety requirements usually resulting in additional risks • General & regulatory training that does not address project specific risks / hazards • Inadequate fund allocation for safety resulting in management system deficiencies • Monitoring for safety management system effectiveness (i.e. ANSI Z10) • Litigation issues that prevent safety continuous improvement efforts – i.e. discoverable documents, terms & conditions

  5. Most Significant Organizational Weaknesses • Lack of senior management / owners understanding of safety and associated financial benefits (ROI) • Unclear understanding of line management, safety & employee roles and responsibilities for safety (accountability) • Employees do not have proper knowledge / skill-set, specifically assessing risks and implementing appropriate control measures

  6. Solutions & Best Practices for Fatality Prevention • Hazard Analysis Effectiveness for non-routine tasks • Design in Safety during Engineering Pre-job/task Planning stages • Contractor (including subcontractors) pre-qualification using predetermined scoring system and ongoing performance review • Site-specific training for project risks • Zero-tolerance for deviation to established safety requirements and continual owner-contractor assessments • Incident investigation findings used for establishing causal factors and improvement in safety system • Owner-led integration for safety during all construction stages

  7. Areas of Future Research • Design and development of effective and appropriate safety training & educational materials for diverse workforce • Determine correlation between virtual reality simulators and construction safety performance

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