| dc.description.abstract | The construction industry is known for its high accident rate which leads to numerous fatalities every year. Currently, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires injury/illness recording forms to be completed only for injuries requiring medical treatment and fatalities. The assertion of this paper is that underlying problems can be best determined through the causes of first-aid injuries that have the potential to prevent serious injuries in the future. Therefore, by classifying and recording first-aid cases on project sites, the common trend type of injury can be followed and appropriate measures can be taken to eliminate hazards. The main objective of this research is to establish a comprehensive standardized database to record first-aid injury cases, injuries requiring medical treatment and fatalities all in one. The recording format described in this research will facilitate the analysis of the data in a more effective manner which can subsequently be used to develop pre-emptive measures to eliminate common causes for construction injuries.
In order, to create the Form, 900 sets of injury data were obtained from an industrial construction firm and analyzed. These data provided a good indication of the classification system adopted by industries today. The proposed Injury and Illness Database/Form (I | en |
