Establishing an Accountability Rate for Construction Accidents
Necessary actions for accident accountability occurring at construction sites should be clearly and fairly taken. However, thus far, proper actions have not been operational. Police authoritys first summoned safety managers or superintendents, without relation to the situation at the construction sites. The owner and designer should also take a certain level of responsibility by regulations of HSE (Health & Safety Establishment). In addition, accident accountability should be thoroughly implemented to ensure safe conditions at construction sites, and an autonomous safety engineer be assigned. This study was undertaken in the hopes of discovering the amount of accountability the parties concerned should take responsibility for when acoidents occur on sites. (Here the parties concomed refer to the owner, designer, safety engineer, superintendent, line supervisor, section chief, foreman, and workers). Questionnaires were distributed to safety supervisors responsible for Safety, at the head offices of the top thirty constriction industry companies in Korea. Of the thirty safety supervisors asked to participate in the questionnaire part of this study, only twenty replied. The questionnaire comprises of eleven questions and information referred to in this study was accordingly collated and analyzed. Seventy two percent of all responders replied that the construction companies should compensate for accidents occurring at their sites atypical. Conclusions derived are as follows: (1) It is shown that owner as government should have an accountability more 20％ than provate owner, (2) It was indicated that the site superintendent should be accountable for fifty percent of the accident occurring on their sites, and not the ninety percent that people usually allot; (3) Weighing down construction companies with one hundred percent of the accountability, without establishing an accountability rate system, causes increasingly ineffective costs that are obstacles to ensuring appropriate implementation of safety policies
construction accident accountability rate owner and designer ineffective cost
SON Ki Sang LEE Jeong Kyu
Department of Safety Engineering,Seoul National University of Technology,Korea Dept of Safety Management,Hansol Construction co Ltd,Korea
国际会议
The 2008 International Symposium on Safety Science and Technology(2008年安全科学技术国际会议)
北京
英文
2287-2289
2008-09-24（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）