Developing a versatile subway construction incident database for safety management

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

Volumn 138, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1169-1180

  Zhou, Zhipeng ^a   Li, Qiming ^a   Wu, Weiwei ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Accidents; Data collection; Database; Safety; Subway construction

Indexed keywords

DATA COLLECTION; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; MICROSOFT ACCESS; NEAR-MISSES; ORGANIZATION STRUCTURES; QUANTITATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE TOOL; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE PLATFORMS; SUBWAY CONSTRUCTIONS; UNSAFE BEHAVIORS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT;

RAILROADS;

EID: 84873684302     PISSN: 07339364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000518     Document Type: Article

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