| Title |
Accident Risk Analysis of Construction Workers by Occupation |
| Authors |
Yang Yun-Sun ; Park Jong-Hyun ; Lee Chan-Sik |
| Keywords |
Risk ; Occupational ; Construction Workers ; Construction Accident |
| Abstract |
Construction accidents occupy 21.13 percent of total industry accidents and 26.18 percent (the highest fatalities rate) of total deaths by disaster. The number of construction accidents rises every year according to the accident reports of 2007. Previous studies of assessing risks have almost exclusively focused on the probability component. To reduce disasters and successfully accomplish a construction project, it is quite often necessary to take out a disaster trade considering risk probability component as well as a severity component. In this study, 12,439 cases of accidents were investigated using the risk plane and the index of relative risk methods according to the accident reports from 2005 to 2007. According to data, painters have the highest risk score of all trades, followed by watertighters, brickmasons, blockmasons, and stonemasons, electricians, and welders. The lowest risk score trade is observed for common labor. It is expected that the information derived from research data presented in this paper could be applied to reduce the number of disasters by selecting fundamental data which is necessary for the safe planning of construction sites and the important management of trades. |