Individual safety and health outcomes in the construction industry

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1455-1467

  McCabe, Brenda ^a   Loughlin, Catherine ^b   Munteanu, Ramona ^a   Tucker, Sean ^c   Lam, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Bayesian network; Construction; Regression; Safety

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; APPRENTICES; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; HEALTH; INFERENCE ENGINES; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ATTITUDES; BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORKS; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATIONS; CONSTRUCTION SITES; HEALTH AND SAFETIES; HEALTH OUTCOMES; JOB TENURES; ONTARIO; REGRESSION; REGRESSION MODELS; RESEARCH PROJECTS; SAFETY; SITUATIONAL FACTORS; WORK PRESSURES; WORKER SAFETIES;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

ACCIDENT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH RISK; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROJECT ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION; SAFETY;

EID: 57349105252     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/L08-091     Document Type: Article

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