Abstract
Fatality rates such as fatalities per full-time equivalent workers are officially used to compare the risk level of the construction industry among various countries. However, each country evaluates the fatality rate using different conditions. This paper presents the comparison of fatality rates of various countries using conventional (national data) and pair (equivalent condition) methods through a time-series approach. The research was conducted in three stages. The risk level was evaluated in order in South Korea (1.54), Japan (0.84), Mexico (0.83), China (0.70), United Kingdom (0.15), and Singapore (0.13) in terms of national data. However, the risk level was re-evaluated in order in China (2.27), South Korea (2.05), Mexico (1.23), Singapore (0.98), Japan (0.80), and United Kingdom (0.47) in terms of equivalent conditions. The risk level of each can be changed when the fatality rate is compared under given equivalent conditions.
Highlights
According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), approximately 2.8 million people every year become victims of industrial disasters, occupational accidents, and occupational diseases, causing severe social and economic problems [1,2]
The study compared the fatality rate (FR) of the national data and equivalent conditions using a time-series approach to present the requirement for risk level assessment of each country under the equivalent evaluation condition
To analyze and compare the FR of each country under the equivalent condition, this study was conducted in three stages: (i) the collection of data; (ii) calculation of the full-time equivalent workers; (iii) comparison of the fatality rate of various countries
Summary
According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), approximately 2.8 million people every year become victims of industrial disasters, occupational accidents, and occupational diseases, causing severe social and economic problems [1,2]. Several countries implemented the Construction Design and Management (CDM), Design for Safety (DFS), and Prevent to Design to reduce the fatal accident and injury rates in the design phase in the construction industry [9,10,11,12,13,14]. South Korea developed and uses an evaluation index called the fatality rate per 10,000 full-time equivalent workers (FRFEW) based on the fatal occupational injuries per 100,000 workers [29]. According to the ILO, South Korea has a very high FR compared with other developed countries, and it is more than ten times higher than the FR in the United Kingdom, which has the lowest rate [21,24,25,26,27,28]
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