Journal of the Korean Society of Safety (한국안전학회지)

The Korean Society of Safety (한국안전학회)
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A Study on the Estimation of Severity Rate for Apartment Construction Work

아파트 건설공사의 위험강도 산정에 관한 연구

  • Lee, Min-Woo (Korea Institute of Construction Technology) ;
  • Lee, Chan-Shik (Department of Architectural Engineering, Inchon University) ;
  • Choi, Soon-Ju (Industrial Safety & Health Research Institute, Korea Occupational Safety & Health Agency)
  • 이민우 (한국건설기술연구원) ;
  • 이찬식 (인천대학교 건축공학과) ;
  • 최순주 (한국산업안전공단 산업안전보건연구원)
  • Received : 2000.03.09
  • Accepted : 2000.05.13
  • Published : 2000.06.30
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Abstract

Construction industry has one of the worst occupational health and safety records amongst all other industries. In this study, we developed a method to compute the severity rate (SR) and measured SR values of apartment construction incidents. The two-year records (1996-1997) from database by the Korea Industrial Safety Corporation (KISCO) were used in the current study. To determine the severity rate (SR), the lost workdays (LW) and the number of injured workers and fatalities (NIW) as well as the number of accidents (NA) were considered. These results appear to indicate that the SR measurement we developed in this study is adequate to estimate the safety of apartment construction environment.

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