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Factors associated with the severity of construction accidents: The case of South Australia

Construction Economics and Building

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Title Factors associated with the severity of construction accidents: The case of South Australia
 
Creator Dumrak, Jantanee
Mostafa, Sherif
Kamardeen, Imriyas
Rameezdeen, Raufdeen
 
Subject Construction Management; Safety Management
Construction; Accidents; Severity; Safety
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Description While the causes of accidents in the construction industry have been extensively studied, severity remains an understudied area. In order to provide more evidence for the currently limited number of empirical investigations on severity, this study analysed 24,764 construction accidents reported during 2002-11 in South Australia. A conceptual model developed through literature uses personal characteristics such as age, experience, gender and language. It also employs work-related factors such as size of organization, project size and location, mechanism of accident and body location of the injury. These were shown to discriminate why some accidents result in only a minor severity while others are fatal. Factors such as time of accident, day of the week and season were not strongly associated with accident severity. When the factors affecting severity of an accident are well understood, preventive measures could be developed specifically to those factors that are at high risk.
 
Publisher UTS ePRESS
 
Contributor SafeWork SA
 
Date 2013-12-11
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Statistical analysis
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/AJCEB/article/view/3620
10.5130/AJCEB.v13i4.3620
 
Source Construction Economics and Building; Vol 13, No 4 (2013): AJCEB; 32-49
2204-9029
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/AJCEB/article/view/3620/3879
 
Coverage South Australia
2001-2011
Accident database
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2013 Jantanee Dumrak, Sherif Mostafa, Imriyas Kamardeen, Raufdeen Rameezdeen
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