title: An integrated quality function deployment and capital budgeting methodology for occupational safety and health as a systems thinking approach: the case of the construction industry.
abstract: In this paper, an integrated methodology for Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and a 0-1 knapsack model is proposed for occupational safety and health as a systems thinking approach. The House of Quality (HoQ) in QFD methodology is a systematic tool to consider the inter-relationships between two factors. In this paper, three HoQs are used to consider the interrelationships between tasks and hazards, hazards and events, and events and preventive/protective measures. The final priority weights of events are defined by considering their project-specific preliminary weights, probability of occurrence, and effects on the victim and the company. The priority weights of the preventive/protective measures obtained in the last HoQ are fed into a 0-1 knapsack model for the investment decision. Then, the selected preventive/protective measures can be adapted to the task design. The proposed step-by-step methodology can be applied to any stage of a project to design the workplace for occupational safety and health, and continuous improvement for safety is endorsed by the closed loop characteristic of the integrated methodology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Industrial Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Macka, 34367 Istanbul, Turkey. Electronic address: atace@itu.edu.tr.
authors.forename: Esra
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bas
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002017:Budgets; D060389:Construction Industry; D006801:Humans; D015601:Injury Severity Score; D017146:Models, Organizational; D016272:Occupational Health; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D011786:Quality Control; D017751:Safety Management / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D013597:Systems Analysis
keywords: 0–1 Knapsack model; Accident cost; Construction; Injury severity score; Quality function deployment