Economic analysis of safety risks in construction

• Author(s): Teresa Bourbon ; Fernando Santos ; Alfredo Soeiro
• Date: 2007
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10216/5454
• Origin: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
• Subject(s): Ciências da Saúde; Ciências médicas; Medicina; Medicina social; Saúde ocupacional; Segurança ocupacional
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: Portuguese

Description

The objective of this study revolves around the analysis of the safety risks involved with one construction project, and the respective economic effects of risk prevention and safety management. As a result of the co-ordination of systems, and harmonising of work between the Project Leader, Safety Co-ordinator and Contractor, an adequate strategy was developed for the safety of the project Escola de Ciências da Saúde da Universidade do Minho. The risk evaluation is carried out in simulated form, and task by task, introduced into the work programme. This gives a history of risk evaluation over the course of the project. The simulation allows peaks of risk to be identified, which will then lead to additional proposals of prevention measures. These prevention measures will serve to reduce risk and consequently lead to a curve on the risk chart. They consist not only of on-site measures, but also of the integrated implementation of working safety policies. We should be aware that risk can be reduced, but is difficult to eliminate altogether. The implementation of prevention systems and working safety policies has its own cost, but what we intend to prove, by attributing costs to risks, is that safety has lower costs than a lack of safety.