Safety First: A Fault Tree Expert System for Construction Falls. Volume I: The Knowledge Acquisition

Details

• Personal Author:
  Hadipriono FC ; Vargas CA ; Yoo WH
• Description:
  The fault tree expert system SAFETY FIRST was developed to identify safety problems that may result in a fall accident and investigate the causes of a fall accident that has already occurred. The first major tasks in the development of the system was to acquire the knowledge which would be needed regarding the causes of construction falls. Experts in the field of construction safety were interviewed and searches were made of all available literature. It was determined that unintentional falls resulted from seven major elevated components: floor edges, floor openings, roofs, wall openings, tops of walls, steel beams, and portable ladders. There were also six major types of scaffoldings identified for analyses: form, tube and coupler, suspended, wood pole, tubular welded, and mobile scaffoldings. The causes of falls from the same level and slips were also determined. The causes of falls were classified into two major groups: basic causes which may directly induce a fall (enabling, triggering, or support related problems), or conditioning causes whose occurrence make a fall more likely to happen, such as safety problems. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Construction-industry Construction-workers NIOSH-Grant Safety-research Traumatic-injuries
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-107
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00231893
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB97-105084
• Citation:
  Construction Laboratory for Automation and System Simulation, Department of Civil Engineering, Ohio State University 1995 Dec; :1-107
• Contact Point Address:
  Civil Engineering Ohio State University 2070 Neil Ave Columbus, OH 43210
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1996
• Performing Organization:
  Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19920301
• Source Full Name:
  Construction Laboratory for Automation and System Simulation, Department of Civil Engineering, Ohio State University
• End Date:
  19950929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1565d67cf64b37dea1a219c283577893c0e97fc3bc85e3f682a8c7bb2fb7d59d74118f7bd4ab7a7663ab8cefac4815c9bdc0a392f9de4648586b4a3a02825df9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/217862/cdc_217862_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.50 MB ]