Vol.7(1),pp.1-7,January2016DOI:10.5897/JCECT2015.0379ArticlesNumber:15EEFC357741ISSN2141-2634Copyright©2016Author(s)retainthecopyrightofthisarticlehttp://www.academicjournals.org/JCECTJournalofCivilEngineeringandConstructionTechnologyFullLengthResearchPaperAnalysisofoccupationalaccidentsinducedhumaninjuries:AcasestudyinconstructionindustriesandsitesSoltanzadehAhmad1,MohammadfamIraj1*,MoghimbeigiAbbas2andAkbarzadehMahdi21DepartmentofOccupationalHygieneEngineering,SchoolofPublicHealthandResearchCenterforHealthSciences,HamadanUniversityofMedicalSciences,Hamadan,Iran.2EpidemiologyandBiostatisticsDepartment,PublicHealthFaculty,HamadanUniversityofMedicalSciences,Hamadan,Iran.Received4August,2015;Accepted4November,2015Therearemanyhumaninjuriesinducedbyoccupationalaccidentsinconstructionindustries.Determinationandanalysisofconstructionaccidents'contributingfactorsisagoodwaytoaccidents'preventionandreduction.Therefore,thisstudywasdoneinviewofidentificationandanalyzingfactorsrelatedtofrequencyandseverityofconstructionaccidentsandinjuriesinthebigconstructionindustries.Thisanalytical-crosssectionalstudywasimplementedon500occupationalaccidentsduringfiveyearsintheIraninanbigconstructionsites.Datagatheringwasdonebasedonaccidentreportformandinformationwererelatedtoallthereviewedconstructionaccidents.Dataanalysiswascarriedoutusingstatisticaltestssuchaslinearregression,independentsampleT-testandOne-wayANOVA,includingstatisticalsoftwareofSPSSv22.0.Theresultsrevealedaveragevaluesofaccidentsindicesincludingaccidentfrequencyrate(AFR)andaccidentseverityrate(AFRandASR)respectivelywere4.71and216.28.Thefindingsshowedthatalmostallfactorsincludingdemographics,organization,accidenttype,workconditionsandequipment,unsafeacts,unsafeconditions,natureofaccidents,Health,safetyandenvironment(HSE)trainingandcontrolmeasures,andfinallyaccidenttimeandplaceweresignificantlyrelatedtotheAFRandASR(p<0.05).Conclusively,theresultsindicatedthatthefrequencyandseverityofoccupationalaccidentsinconstructionindustrieswereduetofailuresincombinationofdifferentcontributingfactors.Therefore,topromoteHSEintheconstructionfieldsandreducefrequencyandseverityoftheconstructionaccidents,allthesefactorswereconsidered.Keywords:Occupationalaccidents,humaninjury,constructionindustry,accidentanalysis,contributingfactors.INTRODUCTIONTheconstructionindustryisintroducedasoneofthemainandimportantindustriesinanycountry.Alarge*Correspondingauthor.E-mail:mohammadfam@umsha.ac.irAuthor(s)agreethatthisarticleremainpermanentlyopenaccessunderthetermsoftheCreativeCommonsAttributionLicense4.0InternationalLicense2J.Civ.Eng.Constr.Technol.workforcehavebeenemployedinthisindustry,directlyandindirectly.Health,safetyandenvironment(HSE)problemsandchallengesinthisindustryasamajorthreattolabor,workforceandindustrycanbeveryhazardousandharmful.Somestudiesindicatedthatconstructionsitesandprojectsarethemostdangerousworkplaces;additionally,theriskofoccupationalaccidents,humaninjuriesisreportedlyhigh(Tametal.,2004;Leeetal.,2006;Imetal.,2009;Soltanzadehetal.,2014).Occupationalaccidentsinconstructionindustryhavenotonlyinfluencedsafetyandhealth,butalsohavenegativeimpactsoneconomics(Silversteinetal.,1998;Hinzeetal.,2006;Leeetal.,2006;Dongetal.,2007).Infact,ithasbeenshownthatthefrequencyandseverityrateofoccupationalinjuriesandtheircostsintheconstructionindustryismoreth...
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