Improvement of Construction Safety Management Checklist for Preventing Construction Accidents in Winter

Abstract

Background/Objectives: At construction sites, checklists are used for each construction for disaster prevention and safety management. However, there is no seasonal checklist. Occupational accidents include environmental factors. In particular, the disaster rate is high in winter. Therefore, it is necessary to develop the construction safety management checklist in winter.

Methods/Statistical analysis: In this study, the items of the existing checklist were examined for improving the checklist of winter construction safety management. Unnecessary items were removed through interviews with experts, and a questionnaire survey was conducted. Awareness of winter safety management and awareness of how important checklist use is for safety management was investigated. A questionnaire survey was also conducted to improve the items on the existing checklist.

Findings: As a result of the awareness survey, the checklist to prepare for winter is important, but it is not used practically now. In addition, the two-way communication between the worker and the safety manager was not smooth. Items that were above the average of the questionnaire results and response results for the items were selected, and 5 major items and 12 minor items were added. Since then, the checklist creation format has been improved. A double check for workers and safety managers and a date and time when safety management was implemented were added, and improvement was made so that there were no unconfirmed safety management items.

Improvements/Applications: In this study, the scope of application of the checklist was divided into seasons, and items suitable for winter were improved. This study is expected to be the basic study of the seasonal construction safety management checklist. However, since this is the result of selection through a questionnaire survey, additional research is needed to confirm field applicability.