A 10-step safety management framework for construction small and medium-sized enterprises.
It is of great importance to develop an occupational health and safety management system (OHS MS) to form a systemized approach to improve health and safety. It is a known fact that thousands of accidents and injuries occur in the construction industry. Most of these accidents occur in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This article provides a 10-step user-friendly OHS MS for the construction industry. A quantitative OHS MS indexing method is also introduced in the article. The practical application of the system to real SMEs and its promising results are also presented.
a Department of Civil Engineering , Qatar University , Qatar.
Murat
M
Gunduz
b 3T Ratkaisut Oy , Finland.
Heikki
H
Laitinen
D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000517:prevention & control*; D060389:Construction Industry; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health; D060051:Occupational Injuries / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D018570:Risk Assessment; D017751:Safety Management / Q000379:methods*; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance; D014421:Turkey
construction industry; management system; safety management