A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Developing a maturity model and metrics to evaluate the occupational health and safety performance of sustainable building projects in the Manitoba construction industry
Despite recent efforts aimed at promoting sustainability, very little has been done to integrate health and safety into the sustainability evaluation of the built environment. This has made sustainable building projects more prone to incidents than non-sustainable ones. The goal of this research was to evaluate the health and safety performance of sustainable building projects in Manitoba. This research involved developing and validating a Sustainable Health and Safety Maturity Model consisting of 251 critical to safety practices organized into 22 safety maturity drivers. The maturity model was implemented on 20 sustainable building projects and 21 non-sustainable ones using a questionnaire survey. The research also developed 34 performance metrics following a detailed literature review and validated them by expert judgment before implemented them on seven sustainable building projects and seven non-sustainable ones. The maturity model results were correlated to performance metric results to investigate the relationship between maturity and performance. Findings from the research confirmed the validity of the 22 safety maturity drivers of the maturity model and 25 of the 34 metrics. The results showed that sustainable building projects had a slightly higher health and safety maturity than non-sustainable ones; however, the difference was statistically insignificant. Larger-sized companies had more mature health and safety practices compared to small sized companies. The most mature safety maturity drivers were safety policy and standard implementation" and "safety inspections" while the least mature were "project team selection" and "alcohol and drug testing". The research found that sustainable buildings had higher incident rates by 12.7% than non-sustainable one
Developing a maturity model and metrics to evaluate the occupational health and safety performance of sustainable building projects in the Manitoba construction industry
Despite recent efforts aimed at promoting sustainability, very little has been done to integrate health and safety into the sustainability evaluation of the built environment. This has made sustainable building projects more prone to incidents than non-sustainable ones. The goal of this research was to evaluate the health and safety performance of sustainable building projects in Manitoba. This research involved developing and validating a Sustainable Health and Safety Maturity Model consisting of 251 critical to safety practices organized into 22 safety maturity drivers. The maturity model was implemented on 20 sustainable building projects and 21 non-sustainable ones using a questionnaire survey. The research also developed 34 performance metrics following a detailed literature review and validated them by expert judgment before implemented them on seven sustainable building projects and seven non-sustainable ones. The maturity model results were correlated to performance metric results to investigate the relationship between maturity and performance. Findings from the research confirmed the validity of the 22 safety maturity drivers of the maturity model and 25 of the 34 metrics. The results showed that sustainable building projects had a slightly higher health and safety maturity than non-sustainable ones; however, the difference was statistically insignificant. Larger-sized companies had more mature health and safety practices compared to small sized companies. The most mature safety maturity drivers were safety policy and standard implementation" and "safety inspections" while the least mature were "project team selection" and "alcohol and drug testing". The research found that sustainable buildings had higher incident rates by 12.7% than non-sustainable one
Developing a maturity model and metrics to evaluate the occupational health and safety performance of sustainable building projects in the Manitoba construction industry
Orogun, Bezalel (author)
2021
Theses
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Knowledge-based occupational health and safety planning for construction projects
| British Library Conference Proceedings | 2010