Abstract
For several decades, the number of reported accidents and fatal incidents in the construction industry has remained high compared to those in other industries. Therefore, many studies have been conducted in an effort to reduce accidents and fatal incidents in the construction industry. Recently, construction safety management has shifted from the construction phase to the pre-construction phase, ultimately to eliminate fatal incidents. In line with this change, South Korea enacted the Design for Safety (DfS) process in 2016. However, the current DfS process remains not well implemented for several reasons. Therefore, this study aims to present eight alternatives to improve the DfS process and suggests DfS improvement priorities by considering construction project participants and career levels using what is known as a fuzzy-analytical hierarchy process (F-AHP) analysis. The results of this study are as follows. First, respondents overall suggested improvements in the area of ‘assignment of responsibility for DfS to the client’ (0.196). Second, improvement priorities were also identified according to construction project participants and career levels. The results of the study can be utilized as basic information for DfS improvements during construction projects.
Highlights
The construction industry recorded high injury and fatal incident rates over the past few decades [1,2,3]
Process and suggests Design for Safety (DfS) improvement priorities by considering construction project participants and career levels using what is known as a fuzzy-analytical hierarchy process (F-Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)) analysis
Based on previous studies related to DfS, eight DfS improvement alternatives for
Summary
The construction industry recorded high injury and fatal incident rates over the past few decades [1,2,3]. In the construction industry, according to the ‘2019 Analysis of Industrial Accident. Status’ by South Korea’s Ministry of Employment and Labor, the number of victims of industrial accidents in 2019 was 25,298, which accounted for 26.9% of all industrial accident victims during that year. There were 428 fatalities in the construction industry, accounting for 50.1% of all deaths from all industrial accidents for that year [4]. Most of the accidents that occur in the construction phase, can be predicted and prevented in the design phase [5,6]. Given the increased awareness of the need for construction safety management in the design phase, there has been a paradigm shift in construction safety management from the construction phase to the design phase, whereby all construction project participants, such as the clients, designers, contractors, and construction managers, are involved in construction safety management from the design phase [7,8,9]
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