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Risk and Reward Perception and Risk-Taking: Applicability, Relationship, and Implication in Construction Safety

Creator:

Azeez, Mohammed N.

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While safety improvements have been made in the construction industry, construction still experiences one of the highest numbers of fatalities annually compared to other industries in the United States with over 970 fatalities in 2016 alone. This number of fatalities drives researchers and safety managers to improve safety measures and...

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Dissertation

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’ perception in China and Australia. Finally, Choe and Leite (2016) focused on construction workers’ risk
Degrees of Connectivity : A Systematic Accident Causation Model

Creator:

Alomari, Kasim A.

Abstract:

With all of the efforts that have been conducted over the past 100 years since the first accident causation theory was published, the Accident Proneness theory by Vernon (1918), the construction still trails among different industries in terms of fatal and nonfatal work injuries. Theories and models that have been...

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Dissertation