Output details

An approach for determining the extent of contribution of construction project features to accident causation

The following paragraph explains the differences in Safety Science (output 3) and Accident Analysis and Prevention (output 2) publications.

The paper in Safety Science (SS) presents a basic expression for assessing the potential of construction project features (CPFs) to cause harm which does not take into account the multi-causal attribute of the causal influence of CPFs. The paper published in Accident Analysis and Prevention (AAP) is significantly different in three ways:

•Firstly, unlike the SS paper, the paper in AAP brings to the fore the multi-causal attribute of the causal influence of CPFs by presenting a model (i.e. Figure 2 in the AAP paper) which illustrates the multi-causal attribute.

• Secondly, the paper in AAP provides a new (advanced) expression for assessing the potential of CPFs to cause harm taking into account the multi-causal attribute of the causal influence of CPFs. This expression therefore addresses the limitation of the basic expression presented in the SS paper.

• Finally, the paper in AAP goes a step further by introducing another dimension of the causal influence of CPFs which is in not addressed at all by the SS paper. This dimension is the health and safety (H&S) risk posed by CPFs. The AAP paper, through the adaptation of a widely used risk expression, it presents an expression for assessing H&S risk posed by CPFs.