OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD ASSESSMENT IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS: A CASE STUDY

Abstract

The initial and most crucial phase in the safety management process is assessing occupational hazards. It is an indispensable component of intricate work systems, particularly construction ones. The application of multi-criteria decision-making tools is demonstrated in this research as an example. The analytic network process, the analytic hierarchy process, and fuzzy failure mode and effects analysis are some of the tools packed systematically. The case simulation is a construction site constructing a residential building in Kunming. The construction site's occupational health and safety supervisor pointed out ten construction functions, eleven hazard factors, and eight causes. The safety team conducted a brainstorming meeting to conduct the pairwise comparisons. Then, six steps of the proposed occupational hazard assessment technique are conducted. It is demonstrated via the case study that decision-making produces outcomes that are distinct from those obtained through conventional failure mode and effects analysis. It can address the shortcomings of the traditional tool, including the dependency of components, the relative importance of missed factors, and the difficulty of calculating values. Additionally, this essay demonstrates that the construction functions, danger factors, and causes are assessed reasonably.

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