Effect of Health and Safety Management Systems in the Construction Sector

IF 3.1 3区工程技术 Q2 CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

Buildings Pub Date : 2024-01-09 DOI:10.3390/buildings14010167

Carlos Arévalo Sarrate, Javier Tarín Martínez, Antonio Lorenzo Lara Galera, Rubén Ángel Galindo Aires

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Abstract

Management systems that are recognized as key tools to improve business management and the results associated with it have spread at the business level during the last 50 years. Regarding Safety Management Systems (SMSs), despite having specific international standards, there are no complete studies that analyze the degree of effectiveness of SMS, and even less in construction, a sector that concentrates a large part of registered labor accidents worldwide. The present investigation is an analysis of SMS effectiveness from an empirical study carried out over 48 months in five countries with a total of more than 23 million work hours between 2009 and 2012. Additionally, it is implied that the impact of SMS implementation in a certain organization must be complemented by a statistical qualitative analysis of its effect on the distribution of accidents. Both analyses are developed in the present study, thus contributing relevant implications when assessing both quantitatively and qualitatively the effects of developing and implementing a health and safety management system in this sector. The findings from this research can contribute to understanding how SMS implementation can help reduce accidents in this industry as well as to enhance SMS implementation in a high-risk sector.

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建筑行业健康与安全管理系统的效果

在过去的 50 年里，被公认为改善企业管理和相关成果的重要工具的管理系统在企业层面得到了推广。关于安全管理系统（SMS），尽管有具体的国际标准，但目前还没有完整的研究来分析安全管理系统的有效程度，在建筑行业更是如此，而该行业集中了全球大部分登记在册的劳动事故。本调查是对 SMS 有效性的分析，通过实证研究得出，2009 年至 2012 年期间，在五个国家开展了为期 48 个月的研究，总工时超过 2 300 万小时。此外，这还意味着，在分析某组织实施 SMS 的影响时，还必须对其对事故分布的影响进行统计定性分析。本研究对这两项分析进行了阐释，从而在定量和定性评估该行业制定和实施健康与安全管理系统的影响时，提供了相关的启示。本研究的结果有助于了解实施健康与安全管理系统如何有助于减少该行业的事故，以及在高风险行业加强健康与安全管理系统的实施。

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3.40

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26.30%

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1883

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11 weeks

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