Owners’ Role in Facilitating Designing for Construction Safety

Details

• Personal Author:
  Abowitz DA ; Gambatese JA ; Toole TM
• Description:
  Exploratory empirical research was performed on a promising safety intervention concept, design for construction safety (DfCS), also called prevention through design (PtD). Seventy-nine anonymous surveys and approximately 65 face to face interviews were conducted at four case study organizations. In addition, 103 online surveys were completed anonymously by members of national construction associations and organizations in 2009 and 2010. The industry survey data indicate that while the majority of owner employees had not heard of DfCS, they found the concept immediately compelling; further, they do not anticipate that potential barriers to implementing DfCS identified in the literature will prove to be significant. Key findings from the analysis of the four case studies and industry survey data regarding implementing DfCS on a project indicate that: 1) an explicit (i.e., formal) DfCS process is required; 2) proactive owner leadership and involvement are likely necessary to initiate DfCS implementation on a project; 3) owner leadership is required to set a high expectation for worker safety and health so that safety takes priority over other project criteria and to ensure general contractor and trade contractor personnel participate in the design review process; and 4) supporting tools, such as design checklists, 4-D CAD systems, and risk identification and assessment documents, facilitate the DfCS process. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Construction Industry Construction Workers Injury Prevention Intervention Occupational Safety Prevention Through Design PTD
• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-211
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20057756
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2012 Jan; :1-211
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20040801
• Source Full Name:
  Owners' role in facilitating designing for construction safety
• End Date:
  20080630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c5ce4614c92a002af6cf4173be6707f75c8d98ba2b4665c196e75e7d5cc7fda08ab099e078fc20341f5da42bc2578d9355b45871a505f9f424c30323ed7ece72
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/214991/cdc_214991_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.30 MB ]