“Safety Is Everyone’s Job:” The Key to Safety on a Large University Construction Site

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• Personal Author:
  Bondy J ; Glazne J ; Lipscomb HJ ; McDonald MA
• Description:
  PROBLEM: Construction risk management is challenging. METHOD: We combined data on injuries, costs, and hours worked, obtained through a Rolling Owner-Controlled Insurance Program (ROCIP), with data from focus groups, interviews, and field observations, to prospectively study injuries and hazard control on a large university construction project. RESULTS: Lost-time injury rates (1.0/200,000 hours worked) were considerably lower than reported for the industry, and there were no serious falls from height. Safety was considered in the awarding of contracts and project timeline development; hazard management was iterative. A top-down management commitment to safety was clearly communicated to, and embraced by, workers throughout the site. DISCUSSION AND IMPACT: A better understanding of how contracting relationships, workers' compensation, and liability insurance arrangements influence safety could shift risk management efforts from worker behaviors to a broader focus on how these programs and relationships affect incentives and disincentives for workplace safety and health. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Demography Epidemiology Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Risk Assessment Safety Safety Management Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Accident-rates Accident-statistics Author Keywords: Occupational Injury Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Demographic-characteristics Etiology Injuries Injury-prevention Occupational-accidents Occupational-exposure Occupational-hazards Occupational-safety-programs Qualitative Methods Risk-analysis Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-practices Safety-programs Safety-research Safety Climate Statistical-analysis Work-analysis Work-operations Work-practices Worker-health Worker-motivation Workplace-studies

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• ISSN:
  0022-4375
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  53-61
• Volume:
  40
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20035784
• Citation:
  J Safety Res 2009 Jan; 40(1):53-61
• Contact Point Address:
  Mary Anne McDonald, Division of Community Health, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
• Email:
  maryanne.mcdonald@duke.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2009
• NORA Priority Area:
  Disease and Injury: Traumatic Injuries
• Performing Organization:
  University of Colorado, Denver
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20020930
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Safety Research
• End Date:
  20060929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6d5e24d2a89223905cca3d4cc15771518eae2245946403b31261550b64580d239a5e59b01a69400366aca7216c7fffe2ac95e27894c7434155134aeec4827f5b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/187513/cdc_187513_DS1.pdf
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