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http://dx.doi.org/10.12812/ksms.2012.14.3.049

Investigation & Analysis about fatalities of falls from height at construction work  

Ko, Young-Wook (Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Graduate School, University of Myongji)
Kim, Dong-Ryeong (Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Graduate School, University of Myongji)
Cho, Joung-Ho (Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Graduate School, University of Myongji)
Kang, Kyung-Sik (Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Graduate School, University of Myongji)
Publication Information
Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science / v.14, no.3, 2012 , pp. 49-57 More about this Journal
Abstract
Proportion of falling from height accident at construction work accounts for more than 40%, and the number of injuries is getting increased. So without considering falling from height, we can say that it's hard to achieve our goal(accident prevention). Another critical point that we have to think about theses days is the fact that construction workers are getting older. To be specific, the number of workers who are above 50 years old accounts for 65.6% among the fatalities(2007~2011, KOSHA inspection). Accordingly, to effectively prevent construction accedents, especially falls from height, we need to focus on motion analysis of older construction workers and then make suitable measures for growing accident rates at construction work.
Keywords
Falls From Height; Aging Worker; Moving; Therblig Analysis;
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