Citation

Misiurek K. Int. J. Occup. Safety Ergonomics 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, Centralny Instytut Ochrony Pracy - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy, Publisher Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/10803548.2022.2138031

PMID

36260031

Abstract

The article indicates that work standardization is an effective tool for the improvement of occupational safety in any process performed by people. Work standardization has an impact on improving productivity, quality, and engaging employees in improving current working methods. The article showed that in the construction industry there are problems concerning the selection of operations for work standardization due to the specificity of the operations performed there. As a result, work standardization is not a common methodology used in the construction industry, which may be one of the reasons for the greater number of accidents and near-misses when compared to the manufacturing industry. The article presents the authors' SCF (Safety-Complication-Frequency) model for the selection of operations for work standardization, which is dedicated to the construction industry. The SCF model enables operations with the highest priority in terms of implementation for work standardization to be selected.

Language: en

Keywords

occupational safety; construction site; Lean Management; Training Within Industry