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Using functional resonance analysis method to understand construction activities for concrete structures

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posted on 2020-04-24, 13:12 authored by María del Carmen Pardo-Ferreira, Juan Carlos Rubio-Romero, Alistair Gibb, Santiago Calero-Castro
The improvement of safety management in the construction sector, especially in activities for concrete structures, continues to be necessary. This paper aims at increasing understanding of everyday construction activities for building concrete structures in order to improve resilient safety management. The Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) has been applied to these activities for this purpose. Analysis of available documentation, on-site interviews and observations have been conducted to collect data. The FRAM analysis revealed that the construction phase health and safety plan is rarely used, that organizational pressure affects safety and that leading indicators to monitor normal work are not used. In addition, delivery of concrete on site and crane operations as key factors due to their influence on variability. This study outlined the potential of the FRAM model as the basis of in-depth and systematic analysis of daily performance, highlighting issues that, until now, had been undervalued.

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Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness for financing project BIA2016-79270-P

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School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

Safety Science

Volume

128

Pages

104771

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Rights holder

© Elsevier

Publisher statement

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Safety Science and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2020.104771

Acceptance date

2020-04-10

Publication date

2020-04-22

Copyright date

2020

ISSN

0925-7535

Language

  • en

Depositor

Prof Alistair Gibb Deposit date: 22 April 2020

Article number

104771

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