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Safety Climate in Large Construction Enterprises
Get PDFRecent studies on safety climate in large construction enterprises show a decrease in accident rates at work sites. Their severe accident rates are significantly lower in relation to their share in the construction industry. The research objective is assessing and exploring the various parameters affecting the safety climate in large construction enterprises. A safety climate model based on the Fishbone diagram was developed, implemented, and validated. The model divided the safety climate factors into four core categories: workers, equipment and technology, organizational environment, and work site environment. The data for the developed model was gathered using a field survey answered by 20 foremen at 20 different construction projects of large construction enterprises. The survey included 45 questions that established an indication of the four factor groups. It also documented the projects' accident ratio based on their severity, in addition to near-miss incidents. To validate the model, accident analysis was conducted on two sub-groups of projects containing five projects each, representing the characteristics of the model in its two poles, and between the two projects with the lowest and highest safety climate characteristics. The results show that there is a correlation between project size and its safety climate, in most cases, the larger the project, the better its safety climate. The core factors of safety climate in large construction enterprises are the organizational safety environment, physical environment management, equipment safety and operation, and workers’ training and skill. The model can be implemented through preventive actions that focus on these core factor groups. The validation shows that the average accident ratio is lower in the sub-group with high safety climate. However, the average number of near-miss incidents was higher. The project with the highest safety climate had significantly lower accident ratio than the one with the lowest safety climate
Pandemic Covid-19 as a Lesson For War Field Hospitals: An Analysis Of Three Architectural Cases
Get PDFThe COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical role of effective emergency management in the
construction of temporary medical facilities. Case studies from China, Italy and Poland show how
coordinated cooperation, innovative construction technologies and flexible approaches can contribute
to rapidly increasing medical care capacity. The speed of construction of field hospitals such as the
Leishenshan Hospital in Wuhan, based on prefabrication and modularity, has allowed for the rapid
creation of functional medical units. The implementation of containers in the CURA program in Italy and
modular solutions in Poland underscores the importance of modern technology in emergency
management. In addition, the pandemic experience points to the need to consider the psychological
comfort of patients and staff, which requires "humanizing" medical spaces through biophilic elements
and better space planning. Lessons from these cases underscore that future crisis management
strategies should rely on collaboration, innovative technological solutions and flexibility to effectively
respond to health emergencies and improve the quality of medical care during a crisis
Financial Stability of Switzerland Challenges and Implications of the UBS-Credit Suisse Merger
No full textDynamics within Economic Theory
Get PDFThis essay endeavors into the sources and drivers of dynamics in the development of economic theory, and economics in general. Postulating an essentially dynamic discipline, it discusses the progress of economic thought as an interaction between evolutionary and cyclical processes, in which development takes place through the creative “reinvention of the wheel”. Major achievements in this progress are rooted in discontent or crisis and driven by a competition on the “marketplace for ideas”. However, this market is often biased by the incumbent’s advantage against a competitive fringe of new ideas, as well as by political influences that raise the competition to an interdisciplinary level by questioning the dominance of economics in policymaking
