Does the potential safety risk affect whether particular construction hazards are recognized or not? |
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| Institution: | 1. North Carolina State University, Department of Civil Construction and Environmental Engineering, 2501 Stinson Drive, Raleigh, NC 27607, United States;2. Oregon State University, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, 1491 SW Campus Way, Corvallis, OR 297331, United States;1. College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA;2. Labor Education and Research Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA;3. Department of Rehabilitation Research, St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute, Spokane, WA, USA;4. Department of Physical Therapy, Eastern Washington University, Spokane, WA, USA;1. Department of Civil Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, 1001, Ta-Hsueh Road, HsinChu, Taiwan;2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, 1001, Ta-Hsueh Road, HsinChu, Taiwan;1. Virtual Construction Laboratory, National Building Research Institute, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel;2. Department of Management, Bar-Ilan University, Israel;1. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA;2. Construction Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA;3. University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA;4. Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA |
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| Abstract: | Introduction: Evidence from the global construction industry suggests that an unacceptable number of safety hazards remain unrecognized in construction workplaces. Unfortunately, there isn’t a sufficient understanding of why particular safety hazards remain unrecognized. Such an understanding is important to address the issue of poor hazard recognition and develop remedial interventions. A recent exploratory effort provided anecdotal evidence that workers often fail to recognize safety hazards that are expected to impose relatively lower levels of safety risk. In other words, the research demonstrated that the underlying risk imposed by a safety hazard can affect whether a hazard will be recognized or not. Method: The presented research focused on empirically testing this preliminary finding. More specifically, the study tested the proposition that Construction workers are more likely to recognize safety hazards that impose higher levels of safety risk than those that impose relatively lower levels of safety risk. The research goals were accomplished through a number of steps. First, a set of 16 construction case images depicting a variety of construction operations that included a number of known safety hazards was presented to a panel of four construction safety experts. The experts were tasked with examining each of the known safety hazards and providing a rating of the relative safety risk that the individual hazards impose. Having obtained an estimate of the underlying safety risk, a hazard recognition activity was administered to 287 workers recruited from 57 construction workplaces in the United States. The hazard recognition activity involved the examination of a random sample of two construction case images that were previously examined by the expert panel and reporting relevant safety hazards. Results: The results of the study provided support for the proposition that workers are more likely to recognize hazards that impose relatively higher levels of safety risk. Practical Applications: The findings of the study can be leveraged to improve existing hazard recognition methods and develop more robust interventions to address the issue of poor hazard recognition levels. |
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| Keywords: | Safety and health Construction safety Injury prevention Hazard recognition Hazard identification Safety risk |
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