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Predictive Validity of Safety Leading Indicators: Empirical Assessment in the Oil and Gas Sector
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Perceptions of Construction Work: Views to Consider to Improve Employee Recruitment and Retention
Publisher: ASCE
Abstract: With increasing demands for new infrastructure and a decreased availability of skilled construction craft workers, the need to recruit and retain workers is becoming critical. It is important to understand the preferences ...
Contemporary Design-Bid-Build Model
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: Empirical research was performed into the hypothesis that a substantial number of building performance engineering tasks on design-bid-build projects are typically provided by entities associated with the construction ...
Precursors of Construction Fatalities. I: Iterative Experiment to Test the Predictive Validity of Human Judgment
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Precursors of Construction Fatalities. II: Predictive Modeling and Empirical Validation
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Construction-Safety Best Practices and Relationships to Safety Performance
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: The construction industry has experienced a great deal of safety improvement after the Congress passed the Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970. In the last twenty years, improvements have been made largely due to ...
Worker Fatigue in Electrical-Transmission and Distribution-Line Construction
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: Within the construction industry, electrical transmission and distribution workers (TD workers) account for one of the highest fatality rates. Because of the hazardous nature of the work, there is little margin for human ...
Predicting Postdisaster Residential Housing Reconstruction Based on Market Resources
Publisher: ASCE
Abstract: Multiple billion-dollar disaster events occurred throughout 2017, illustrating the increasing vulnerability of the US residential housing stock to widespread damages associated with disasters. Although the US construction ...
Safety Risk Tolerance in the Construction Industry: Cross-Cultural Analysis
Publisher: ASCE
Abstract: Disparities in worker risk tolerance may create barriers to implementing safety management systems and improving safety performance. At present, it is unclear if and to what extent construction safety risk tolerance vary ...