Citation

Kikkawa N, Ohdo K, Toyosawa Y, Hiraoka N, Hamajima K, Shimizu S. J. Jpn. Soc. Civil Eng. Ser. F6 Saf. Probl. 2019; 75(1): 1-11.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Japan Society of Civil Engineers)

DOI

10.2208/jscejsp.75.1

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In this study, we explained the definition of hazard, risk, safety and so on in order to apply "Safety Science" establishing in the field of Mechanical System Safety to the construction industry. In the mechanical field, "Inherently Safe Design" should be considered firstly as risk reduction measures in risk assessment. On the other hand, in construction industry, there are difficult situations to apply the inherently safety design of the construction process with health & safety because organisations taking charge of ordering, designing and building are totally different by each. An incident happened unfortunately under that situation in Japan and so we would like to show how important to consider the inherently safety design in that incident. In addition, we investigated the efforts and challenges in United Kingdom which has excellent outcomes in the health & safety of construction industry. The advantages in UK would be integrated into three points mainly from our investigations, first one is the roles and duties of clients, designers and contractors, second one is the system/structure of construction project, third one is sufficient educational institutions. Those activities are partially introducing into Japanese construction industry and then it would be very significant to establish the social system/structure that clients, designers and contractors should consider the inherently safe design of construction project with the health & safety together.

Language: ja

Keywords

construction management; hazard; risk; risk management; safety