Occupational risk of building construction

O.N. Aneziris, E. Topali and I.A. Papazoglou

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2012, vol. 105, issue C, 36-46

Abstract: This paper presents the quantification of occupational risk of a building construction project. Risk assessment is based on the Occupational Risk Model (ORCA) developed under the Workgroup Occupational Risk Model project (WORM), in the Netherlands, for quantifying occupational risk. This model assesses occupational risk of a worker, by taking into account his various tasks, activities and their hazards. Risk is evaluated for three types of consequences: recoverable injury, permanent injury and death. The occupational risk model is based on a set of 63 bowties, which assess risk owing to different hazards such as fall from ladder, scaffold, roofs, falling object, struck by moving vehicle, contact by moving parts, etc. ORCA calculates the risk profile of a building construction site, consisting of thirty-eight workers in different job positions, such as operators of excavators, loaders, compaction equipment, workers in excavation and framing phases, etc. All risk profiles of workers have been quantified and jobs have been ranked according to their risk. Workers installing timber formworks have the highest fatality risk (1.57×10−3/yr), followed by the workers installing reinforcement (1.52×10−3/yr).

Keywords: Occupational risk; Construction sector; Probabilistic occupational safety analysis; Risk assessment model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2011.11.003

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