Accident precursors and near misses on construction sites: An investigative tool to derive information from accident databases

Safety Science

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 845-858

  Wu, Weiwei ^a   Gibb, Alistair G F ^b   Li, Qiming ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Immediate factors; Near miss; Precursors; Real time

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PRECURSORS; CONSTRUCTION SITES; EFFECTIVE MEASURES; HISTORICAL RECORDS; MITIGATING MEASURES; REAL TIME TRACKING; SAFETY MARGIN; SAFETY PROBLEMS; SAFETY-IMPROVING; SUB-SYSTEMS; SYSTEMATIC MODELS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS; CIVIL ENGINEERING; RESEARCH;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENT PRONENESS; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCTION WORK; FALLING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; MEDICAL HISTORY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 77952553745     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2010.04.009     Document Type: Article

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