Related research projects

APaCHe brings industry, government and academia together with the aim of achieving a step change in the social, physical, and psychological health of all involved in construction. APaCHe's vision is an industry with healthy workers, healthy work systems and healthy work organisations. APaCHe is pursuing this vision by developing and exploiting a health strategy for the industry, concentrating on improving construction processes, technology and innovation.

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Manual Handling in  Kerb Lifting

Loughborough University are carrying out research to investigate manual handling throughout the life cycle of highway kerbs including manufacture, supply, planning and design. The work will examine current alternatives to manual handling of kerbs; explore related technical innovations developed home and abroad; look at installers' attitudes to changes from current practice and produce a strategy for design and installation that can be transferred to other construction operations. Click for more information

HASPREST, at Loughborough University, is a new project which is testing the widely held assumption that Standardisation and Pre-Assembly improves health and safety performance. The project funded by the DTI and Loughborough's EPSRC Centre for Construction Innovation, has just started and is still looking for further project participants. To register interest please contact Martyn Pendlebury at m.c.pendlebury@lboro.ac.uk

ConCA

The Health and Safety in Construction (HASEC) Research Group at Loughborough University and UMIST are undertaking a collaborative project, studying the causes of accidents in the construction industry.

The project is scheduled to last for three years, of which the first year is being spent on information search. Later in the year 2000 we shall start to undertake 100 accident studies, which will form the main body of the research. The focus is upon the contribution of the project development, management, site and individual factors to construction industry accidents, and findings will be used to direct future best practice.

Related Publications

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Hide S, Hastings S, Haslam RA, Gibb AG, Gyi D, Duff R and Suraji A.

By accident or design? Casual factors in construction industry accidents. Designing for safety and health in construction - International Conference June 26th & 27th 2000, Forum Hotel, London. Organised by ECI and CIB W99.

Sophie Hide; Alistair Gibb; Roger Haslam; Diane Gyi; Trevor Pavitt; Sarah Atkinson; Roy Duff.

Tools and Equipment their role in accident causality- CIB W 99. Quality and Safety on Construction Sites.  Sao Paulo, Brazil. March 25-28 2003

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Gibb, Alistair

Senior lecturer, Department of Civila nd Building Engineering, Loughborough University

Haslam, Roger

Senior lecturer, Department of Human Sciences, Loughborough University