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Author
Liska, R. W. | Goodloe, D. | Sen, R.
Title
Construction Safety Self-Assessment Process.
Coporate
Clemson Univ., SC
Report
Source Document 88
March 1993
100 p.
Keywords
construction | safety
Identifiers
Construction Safety Self-Assessment Process (CSSAP); construction safety self-assessment process; overview of safety techniques
Abstract
The construction industry in the United States accounts for approximately 10% of the GNP with an annual dollar volume of about $450 billion. Five percent of the nation's workforce is employed in the construction industry and yet that 5 percent experiences a disproportionate 20 percent of all traumatic occupational fatalities and 12 percent of the total number of disabling injuries. This corresponds to 6 to 10 fatalities on construction sites every working day throughout the United States. The purpose of the construction safety self-assessment process described in this document is to provide management with a simplistic decision support model to improve project safety performance.