Leading Indicators of Construction Safety:
Paper instructions:
We learned about Leading Indicators of Construction Safety in “Zero Accident Techniques” session and reading materials “RS 284-1 Measuring Safety Performance with Active Safety Leading Indicators” and “RS 293-1
Strategies for Improving Hazard Recognition”. Based on the session, material and your research, please prepare a report following the steps below,
i) Select a construction project/activity you want to study. It can be a project you are working on or you are interested in. If you choose a project you are working on, please do NOT reveal more information than you are allowed to publish publicly.
ii) Describe the tasks, resources (workers, equipment and material) involved and working schedule. Provide pictures, if applicable, to support your text.
iii) Identify the types of hazards that the workers are exposed to while performing their tasks in that project/activity.
iv) Discuss the current practice of hazard prevention or mitigation that are currently being implemented at the site.
v) Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of those hazard prevention and mitigation systems.
vi) Do your research on what can act as leading indicators of safety in that project/activity. Also discuss how such indicators can be implemented.
vii) Provide your recommendation on improving the safety performance of the project/activity you selected. It can include deploying new technologies, incentive programs, training and warning for the workers and equipment operators, near-miss reporting systems etc.
viii) List the sources of information for your report (E.g.; links to the websites; name, authors, name of journal and publication year of scholarly articles; names and positions of people you talked to).
You are encouraged to search scholarly articles from sites like scholar.google.com or online materials from any website. The ideas you get from such materials should be expressed in your own words in the report and references should be listed at the end of the report. The report should not be more than 10 pages long (including pictures and references, excluding cover page) and be uploaded in MS Word format through turnitin on blackboard.