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Improvement of Educational Contents to Enhance the Efficiency of Construction Worksite Safety Training

  • Kim, Tae-Hui (Department of Architectural Engineering, Mokpo National University) ;
  • Ahn, Sungjin (Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida) ;
  • Lee, Taick-Oun (Department of Architecture, Yeungnam College of Science and Technology) ;
  • Kim, Suk Bong (Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Korea Military Academy) ;
  • Park, Young Jun (Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Korea Military Academy)
  • Received : 2012.12.23
  • Accepted : 2013.01.06
  • Published : 2013.02.20
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Abstract

The prevention of safety accidents can be achieved through Harvey's 3E's: Engineering, Enforcement, and Education. On construction sites, however, enforcement and engineering did not prove to be valid ways of reducing the number of safety accidents, as enforcement and engineering have failed to overcome and/or supplement the realistic limits regarding the relatively lower education levels of construction workers and the communication issues with foreign workers. On the other hand, safety education can enable the advancement of safety management by enhancing the educational contents and their methods of delivery. To improve the efficiency of safety education via educational contents, this research conducted a qualitative and quantitative analysis on the validity of the newly educational contents by overviewing possible accident types in different work phases. Of the accident types identified by the qualitative analysis, neither highly important nor insignificant accident types were found, yet all the suggested types are found to be required. In addition, this study did not find any significant differences in the occurrence probability of safety accidents related to the level of importance of each type of accident. The qualitative analysis in this research verified that the suggested accident types can be valid, educational material that can take into account future safety accidents.

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