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Safety risk interactions among highway construction work tasks

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  • Matthew Hallowell
  • Behzad Esmaeili
  • Paul Chinowsky

Abstract

Recent research has produced frameworks for integrating safety risk data into project schedules, visual models and other construction planning tools. Unfortunately, only a few studies have attempted to quantify base-level safety risk for construction tasks and no study has attempted to quantify the degree to which spatial and temporal interactions among tasks contribute to the potential for injury. A research study was performed to quantify the impact that pair-wise spatial and temporal interactions have on the base-level risk of 25 common highway construction work tasks in the United States. Six hundred risk interactions were quantified by obtaining and aggregating over 23 500 individual ratings from certified experts using the Delphi method. The results indicate that incompatible tasks may increase the base-level risk up to 60%. The most incompatible highway construction tasks are: (1) installing curbs and gutters and installing rigid pavement; and (2) construction zone traffic control and installing rigid pavement. Additionally, watering and dust palliatives and pavement marking is the one compatible task pair and there are 45 neutral task pairs. The resulting database and analysis have the potential to increase the efficacy of existing frameworks for integration of safety risk data with project planning tools.

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  • Matthew Hallowell & Behzad Esmaeili & Paul Chinowsky, 2011. "Safety risk interactions among highway construction work tasks," Construction Management and Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(4), pages 417-429.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:conmgt:v:29:y:2011:i:4:p:417-429
    DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2011.552512
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    1. Yutong Xue & Pengcheng Xiang, 2020. "The Social Risk of High-Speed Rail Projects in China: A Bayesian Network Analysis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(5), pages 1-23, March.
    2. Matthew R. Hallowell & Dillon Alexander & John A. Gambatese, 2017. "Energy-based safety risk assessment: does magnitude and intensity of energy predict injury severity?," Construction Management and Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(1-2), pages 64-77, February.
    3. Si Van-Tien Tran & Numan Khan & Doyeop Lee & Chansik Park, 2021. "A Hazard Identification Approach of Integrating 4D BIM and Accident Case Analysis of Spatial–Temporal Exposure," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(4), pages 1-19, February.

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