Accidents in materials handling at construction sites

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 729-736

  Perttula, P ^a   Merjama, J ^b   Kiurula, M ^a   Laitinen, H ^b  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^b 3T Ratkaisut Oy ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

Construction industry; Manual materials handling; Mechanical materials handling; Occupational accident

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS HANDLING;

CONSTRUCTION SITES; MATERIALS HANDLING ACCIDENTS;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

ACCIDENT; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; OCCUPATION;

FINLAND;

EID: 0344553337     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0144619032000087294     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Auld, M.C., Emery, J.C.H., Gordon, D.V. and McClintock, D. (2001) The efficacy of construction site safety inspections. Journal of Labor Economics, 19(4), 900-21.
2. Buskin, S.E. and Paulozzi, L.J. (1987) Fatal injuries in the construction industry in Washington State. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 11, 453-60.
3. Culver, C., Marshall, M. and Connolly, C. (1993) Analysis of construction accidents. Construction Safety, 38(3), 22-7.
4. Derr, J., Forst, L., Chen, H.Y. and Conroy, L. (2001) Fatal falls in the US construction industry, 1990 to 1999. JOEM, 43(10), 853-60.
5. Helander, M.G. (1991) Safety hazards and motivation for safe work in the construction industry. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 8, 205-23.
6. Holt, A. (2001) Principles of Construction Safety, Blackwell Science, London.
7. Hunting, K.L., Welch, L.S., Nessel-Stephens, L., Anderson, J. and Mawudeku, A. (1999) Surveillance of construction worker injuries: the utility of trade-specific analysis. Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, 14, 458-69.
8. Jackson, S.A. and Loomis, D. (2002) Fatal occupational injuries in the North Carolina construction industry, 1978-1994. Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, 17(1), 27-33.
9. Jeong, B.Y. (1998) Occupational deaths and injuries in the construction industry. Applied Ergonomics, 29(5), 355-60.
10. Kisner, S. and Fosbroke, D. (1994) Injury hazards in the construction industry. JOM, 36(2), 137-43.
11. Kumar, S. (1991) Injury profile of construction industry in Alberta in Canadian context: a case study of the impact of a non-monetary motivational factor in a multicenter Albertan company. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 8, 197-204.
12. Larsson, T.J. and Field, B. (2002) The distribution of occupational injury risks in the Victorian construction industry. Safety Science, 40, 439-56.
13. Lortie, M. and Pelletier, R. (1996) Incidents in manual handling activities. Safety Science, 21, 223-37.
14. Lowery, J.T., Glazner, J., Borgerding, J.A., Bondy, J., Lezotte, D.C. and Kreiss, K. (2000) Analysis of construction injury burden by type of work. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 37, 390-9.
15. Neitzel, R.L., Seixas, N.S. and Ren. K.K. (2001) A review of crane safety in the construction industry. Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, 16(12), 1106-17.
16. Niskanen, T. (1993) Accident Risks and Preventive Measures in Materials Handling at Construction Sites, Ministry of Labour, Helsinki.
17. Pekkarinen, A. (1994) Occupational Accidents Occurring in Different Physical Environments with Particular Reference to Indoor and Outdoor Work, University of Oulu, Oulu.
18. Salminen, S. (1995) Serious occupational accidents in the construction industry. Construction Management and Economics, 13, 299-306.
19. Zwerling, C., Miller, E., Lynch, C. and Torner, J. (1996) Injuries among construction workers in rural Iowa: emergency department surveillance. JOEM, 38(5), 698-704.