Statistics construction industry

In practice, most lifetime prediction is based on service experience. Depending on the industry concerned, this can take the form of planned examination of components at the end of their service life or be limited to the explanation of warranty returns. Experience with polymers is now sufficiently long for service experience to be a prime source of information for components with lifetimes of up to 35 years. The construction industry provides a good example of systematic listing of component lifetimes, related to minimum quality levels and modified according to the service conditions. The electrical industry applies statistical methods to life components and predict failures. This, however, strays into the general field of engineering component lifetimes. In this book we are concerned with materials rather than components. 

Boletin Direccion General de Estadistica, bimonthly. May 1946-. Statistics of industrial production, prices, construction, and consumption. In LC. 

The Health and Safety Executive (2014) report that the UK construction industry only employs approximately 5% of the UK workforce, but disproportionately accounts for 31% of fatal injuries, 10% of reported major/specified injuries and 6% of over-7-day injuries to employees. In the period 2013/14 there were 42 fatal injuries to workers in the construction industry and 592 000 working days were lost due to workplace injury, a total of 1.1 days lost per worker. All these statistics make for unpleasant reading, and also make construction one of the most dangerous industries to work in within the UK. 

These ideas of causality also imply that accidents can be used for learning and improvements around safety. At their simplest level, statistics provide focus for interventions that 45% of workers killed in the construction industry during 2013/14 fell from height (Health and Safety Executive 2014) justifiably suggests this is still an area worthy of directed management efforts. 

Health and Safety Executive (2015a) Construction Industry [Online]. Available http //www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/industry/construction/index. htm [25 September 2015]. 

Justification for investing in a strong fall protection program goes much deeper than avoiding six-figure penalties. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recorded well more than 600 fall-related fatalities in 2009, and falls are perennially cited as the leading cause of worker death in the construction industry. 

The review of accidents started with the perception from many stakeholders that coastal and maritime engineering presents a particularly hazardous environment for the construction industry. Simm and Cruickshank (1998) identified many of the commercial and technical hazards experienced by key stakeholders within the industry. However, this earlier review did not focus on health and safety issues. The current review seeks to examine what safety statistics exist and answer the following ... 

Those differences extend to fatality rates. In statistics analyzed by NIOSH in 1994, the U.S. construction industry had a confined space fatality rate about two and a half times that of the manufacturing industry. If the focus is on trench cave-ins, the numbers are even more lopsided. During one ten-year period studied by NIOSIP, the construction industry accounted for 77 percent of the trench cave-in deaths. 

According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, Statistical Abstract of the United States, there are more than 7.2 million workers employed in the construction industry (6 percent of all employment). The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health s (NIOSH) National Occupational Exposure Survey (NOES) estimates that 421,000 construction workers are exposed to noise above 85 dBA. NIOSH estimates that 15 percent of workers exposed to noise levels of 85 dBA or higher will develop permanent hearing impairment. 

Chapter 3 reviews general health and safety hazards and the risks of accidents in construction work, including some accident statistics and a case description of a fatal accident. The results gained by the recent focus on improving safety performance by the Finnish construction industry itself and by its stakeholders are reviewed. 

Fig. 2 a All notified accidents in the constmction industry by work operation of the injured person leading to the injury, b Injured part of the body in serious accidents leading to pension in the construction industry (Source The national statistical database issued by the Finnish Federation of Accident Insurance Institutions, including all notified work accidents in Finland during the years 2005-2009)... 

The construction industry covers about 7 % of the employed labour in Finland (in 2012, 175 000 employees), and is male-dominated, as approximately 90 % of the workforce are men (Oksa et al. 2013). According to the statistics of the Federation of Accident Insurance Instimtions (FAIl), the construction industry has the second highest accident figures in the comparison between the absolute accident numbers of different branches. The amount of accidents at work has remained quite stable in recent years, at approximately 14 000 accidents/year. Accident frequency is over 60 accidents/miUion working hours. 

This compares with the United States where in 1990/1 the Bureau of Labor fatality statistics reveal that Transportation and public utilities have 8.4 fatalities per 100,000 employees. This makes it the third highest category behind the construction industry (with a rate of 16.7) and agriculture, forestry, and fishing (with a rate of 10) (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1993 47). 

This chapter provides an overview of the construction industry and practices in the Gulf Corporation Countries and includes examples from various countries. The chapter is based on literature review that newspaper articles and relevant construction statistical data. As we learned in preparing this paper, there is very limited detailed information available on the construction industry in GCC countries. The first part of the chapter provides a background to the GCC. The second part covers practices in the construction industry and role of the public and private sectors in the construction market. The third section discusses the impacts of the industry on construction and labor markets. The chapter concludes with an assessment of the weakness and advantages of the construction industry in GCC countries. 

A literature review revealed that HRA methods are scarcely applied in the construction industry, which is an unexpected observation given that construction is a) the sector with the worst performance in terms of occupational safety and health, worldwide (Eurostat Statistics Explained 2014, OSH A 2014), and b) a field of activity where human errors are by far the first reason for the occurrence of failures and accidents (Health and Safety Executive 2003). 

However, because data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that there continues to be a high number of fall-related deaths in residential construction, industry experts now feel that feasibility is no longer a concern. 

On safety, the Board works closely with nine accident prevention associations, each of which is concerned with safety in one particular field of endeavour. The Construction Safety Association of Ontario is one of these organizations, and bears the exclusive responsibility for accident prevention by self-regulation within the construction industry. The Board provides overall direction and financial support to each accident prevention association, this financial support amounting to S3 7 million in 1969, of which the Association received about SI-4 million. In addition to financial support, the Board provides the associations with ipfury statistical information relevant to each particular industry. 

Another important point about how the choice of PET polymer to be recycled to create new products for the construction industry has to do with the residual growth of its use in the domestic market. According to the data of economics and statistics of the Brazilian Association of Chemical Industry [2] PET increased by 34.2% in domestic production in the last half of, 2013. 

Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. IBGE - Annual Survey of Construction Industry (PAIC). 20th edition, IBGE, Rio de Janeiro, 2010. 

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