Occupational risk of building construction

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 105, Issue , 2012, Pages 36-46

  Aneziris, O N ^a   Topali, E ^b   Papazoglou, I A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Construction sector; Occupational risk; Probabilistic occupational safety analysis; Risk assessment model

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT MODELS; BOW-TIES; BUILDING CONSTRUCTION; BUILDING CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; CONSTRUCTION SECTORS; MOVING PARTS; MOVING VEHICLES; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; RISK PROFILE; WORKGROUPS;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; EXCAVATION; HAZARDS; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCAFFOLDS;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

EID: 84863988691     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2011.11.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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