The statistic of accidents at construction sites proofs that Malaysian construction industry is one of the critical sectors that need to take the site safety practices seriously. Accident is not a natural incidence. It happens because of unsafe acts, unsafe conditions or both. In general, accidents are a combination of contributing causes, unsafe acts and unsafe condition. The root causes of construction accidents is the main thing that need to be highlighted in order to improve the overall safety performance. That knowledge could be utilised to be more conducive working conditions and environments at construction sites. Therefore, a study has been conducted to identify the causes of accident at construction sites. This study was started out by reviewing literature from journals, books, newspaper, and web pages. Then reported accidents cases kept by the Department of Occupational Safety and Health Malaysia (DOSH) were examined to investigate causes of accidents. Surveys using questionnaire forms were carried out to obtain data from respondents who are mainly contractors and the rest are developers and consultants firms all around countries that are well versed with the construction safety. The finding of this study reveals that accidents are the result of many contributing factors, causes, and sub causes. Some of the critical factors are unsafe method, human element, unsafe equipment, job site conditions, management, and unique nature of the industry. The causes of accidents in Malaysia were found to be similar to that mentioned in literature review. However, some of the causes are low in frequency of occurrence. The main cause of construction accidents found are the workers ‘negligence, failure of workers to obey work procedures,...
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...ntion, the rate of accident will rises thus it will badly affected the image of the construction industry company. On average, more than 40 accidents were recorded each year beginning from 2005 till 2009 despite the efforts done to ensure the safety environment. All accidents have their causes so it is important to identify the causes to the accident so that it can be prevented in future and thus reduce injury, ill health and also cost to the business. This is the article i took from my sinchew.com, the title was second Penang bridge collapse. The possible causes of the accident is because of this three factors, namely design, material used and quality of work not accordance with specifications, and supervision and quality control at the project site. The safety officer should regularly check the construction site to prevent this kind of accidents happen in future.
When it comes to safety most people think they are safe, and they have a true understanding on how to work safe. Human nature prevents us from harming ourselves. Our instincts help protect us from harm. Yet everyday there are injuries and deaths across the world due to being unsafe. What causes people to work unsafe is one of the main challenges that face all Safety Managers across the world.
Recommendations include requiring the Douglas Aircraft Company change maintenance and calibration requirements for all DC-8 stall warning systems, improving the fidelity of the simulators in reproducing the stall characteristics of the airplanes they represent, ensure ABX incorporates the revised functional evaluation stall recovery procedure in its FEF program and developing an advisory circular advising aircrew on correct stall maneuver procedures. Additional requirements were for the FAA to identify operations that require special consideration and require special training and operational guidance. They were also to take a more active role in surveillance of FEF programs for air carriers and modify current operating instructions to clarify airworthiness and operational procedural requirements for conducting FEF’s in transport-category aircraft. The Safety Board also reiterated its standing recommendation to present pilots with angle-of-attack information in a visual format and to train them to use the information to obtain maximum possible climb performance.
The article “Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse” brought attention a famous case of failed structural design and engineering, analyzed the history of the building’s design and construction, and considered what is to blame for the accident that occurred.
Workers Health and Safety Perspective: Workers are required to be trained to learn about the possible hazards and solutions. For example, scaffolding, fall protection, excavations, etc. Workers are also required to wear necessary protective equipment during the construction process. In addition, workers have the right to negotiate for better working environment and get compensations if injured during construction.
Working at the hospital for a little over a year now I have seen a few instances that are a "near miss", some a failure, and as of today a complete failure in patient safety but is being overlooked in some ways. Being the most recent and fresh in my mind this incident included a known drug addict, and an order that read "pt. may go outside with family". During shift report I asked the night shift RN why a known drug addict has outdoor privileges, when it is hard enough to get anyone the order to go outside. The RN giving report agreed with me, but since the ordering physician wasn 't available we could not challenge the order overnight. As my shift continued I go into the patients room to check on them and the bed was empty the wheelchair was gone and the bathroom was empty. I asked my Clinical assistant and she said that she was never told the patient was leaving (strike 1: patients need to tell staff when they leave the unit). After 30 minutes I looked in the room and the patient was still gone, after an hour the patient returned with a family member (strike 2: patients are allowed 15 minutes off the floor). I quickly went into the room and asked the patient that if they would like to leave the unit they need to notify staff before they leave and patients need to come back to
The accident pointed out a flawed hoisting process during the investigations. When the bolts failed and the tower crumbled, five people lost their lives. Preliminary investigations revealed extreme negligence on the part of Antenna Inc. In other words, there was a deliberate attempt to violate the fundamental canon of holding paramount the welfare and safety of the public. Generally, the disaster would have been avoided if the rules of practice for engineers had been adhered to.
Issues of defective construction or failure of building had been occur since all time ago. Each of the cases of defective construction has their own reason and most of the reason is related to its building. The main causes of the structural failure are not come from the loading but it determine by the defective design of the building. Other than that, the inferior construction material also may be the reason since the loads are being calculated based on the material specification. Usually the failure which comes from material is due to the changes material that difference from the exactly material that should be used in the construction.
In conclusion, this paper proposed that Hazard Analysis begins with a thorough understanding and documentation of the system being considered. It also noted that it takes a team of people for all areas involved and even outside experts to examine all possible “What ifs” scenarios that must be considered. It was stated that Hazard Assessment consists of main two parts; the potential for occurrence and severity of the mishap if it does occur. A defined Risk Assessment Matrix was given to help in consistently evaluating the risk. In controlling risk a "safety order of precedence" to risk mitigation has given. It stated the first focus should be designing to minimalize risk, followed by incorporate safety devices, providing warning devices, and finally developing procedures and training.
In the construction industry use of drug by worker now a day’s become one of the serious issues. In this construction industry, use of drug includes taking alcohol, cannabis, cocaine and crack, ecstasy, heroin and LSD during or prior to the work. Irrespective of the nations all over the world, there exists a significant rate of causualites or serious injuries and loss of money as the workers are often violets the relulations as well as code of conducts in the construction sites after taking the drug. As pointed out by Biggs and Williamson (2012), the use of drug in the construction sites throw in to the outrageous breakdown of the business operrtaions for the reason of absebteesim, stealing, oss of efficiency along with the top of it; industrial accidents. The survey report conducted by the Federal governmental depicts that the rate of drug abuse is the uppermost in the construction indutries. One significant aspects is that the workers belongs in this industry are of various age group strating from 18 to 50 years of age (Cassidy, 2006). Among those various age group the use of drug is positively correlated with the workplace death (Caplan and Goldberger, 2001). Consequently varied working ogranizations in this industry have employed inventiveness to significantly investigate the exploit of drugs and their impact in the construction industry with the intention of come across a scheme for emerging a course of action that could diminish the numeral of serious confrontation taking place mainly because of drug use on construction sites.
Since the mid 1400’s, man has taken record of over 360 bridge collapses due to some form of disaster. Whether its design flaw, natural disaster, or even a manmade disaster, bridges have continued to collapse due to many different forms of collision. As highlighted in the opening paragraph, within the two main reasons for bridge collapse, there is one reason cannot be explained.
Safety is a primary concern in the health care environment, but there are still many preventable errors that occur. In fact, a study from ProPublica in 2013 found that between 210,000 and 440,000 patients each year suffer preventable harm in the hospital (Allen, 2013). Safety in the healthcare environment is not only keeping the patient safe, but also the employee. If a nurse does not follow procedure, they could bring harm to themselves, the patient, or both. Although it seems like such a simple topic with a simple solution, there are several components to what safety really entails. Health care professionals must always be cautious to prevent any mishaps to their patients, especially when using machines or lifting objects, as it has a higher
Accidents is defined as an unplanned and undesired circumstances resulting in injuries, fatalities and loss or damage of property or assets(safety.ILO, 2011). Accidents are much deeper and beyond the older clichés, accounting to bad luck or fate, almighty’s work or simply being at wrong place at wrong time. But, in todays scientific world it is neither perceived as fate nor as deity’s work but a social problem resulting from a chain of undesired events. Preventing accidents is very arduous task without knowledge of accident phenomenon and the study in the field of accident phenomenon has been very diverse but a basic question has always been raised as why does accident occur? Can there be some common pattern to it? To unravel these mysteries and predict and prevent accidents several theories and model has been postulated in the past and recent times with each having some explanatory and predictive values.
The injuries are associated with the workplace. The injuries or illnesses can cause an employee to miss a work day. As a result, there are many days that are lost. Lost days of work translate to loss of billions of dollars annually. It is on this basis that workplace safety is founded. It is important to not only the employees but also the employers. In a move to increase the work place safety, laws have been put in place to protect the company employees from both unhealthy and unsafe working conditions. The laws are aimed at reduced accidents and associated injuries, diseases and death at the place of work. Any injury, disease or even death at the place of work should be
In the past, the term "accident" was often used when referring to an unplanned, unwanted event. To many "accident" suggests an event that was random, and could not have been prevented. Since nearly all work site fatalities, injuries, and illnesses are preventable, OSHA suggests using the term "incident" investigation. An incident usually refers to an unexpected event that did not cause injury or damage this time but had the potential. "Near miss" or "dangerous occurrence" are also terms for an event that could have caused harm but did not.
Accidents at work can occur at any time and there are a lot of consequences and considerations, especially for the injured worker. Industrial workers or people who deal with heavy objects are not the only one at risk of getting into