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Risk assessment of fatal accidents due to work at heights activities using fault tree analysis: case study in Malaysia

Fatal falls from heights accidents represent a threat to any industry's development and progress. It is crucial to understand how these accidents evolve from a simple ‘near miss‘ into a ‘fatal accident‘. In recent years, Malaysia's construction industry suffered an increasingly alarming nu...

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Main Authors: Zermane, Abderrahim, Mohd Tohir, Mohd Zahirasri, Baharudin, Mohd Rafee, Mohamed Yusoff, Hamdan
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Published: Elsevier 2022
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/103104/
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spelling my.upm.eprints.1031042024-06-30T23:53:27Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/103104/ Risk assessment of fatal accidents due to work at heights activities using fault tree analysis: case study in Malaysia Zermane, Abderrahim Mohd Tohir, Mohd Zahirasri Baharudin, Mohd Rafee Mohamed Yusoff, Hamdan Fatal falls from heights accidents represent a threat to any industry's development and progress. It is crucial to understand how these accidents evolve from a simple ‘near miss‘ into a ‘fatal accident‘. In recent years, Malaysia's construction industry suffered an increasingly alarming number of fatal falls from heights accidents. Fatal accident numbers that were reported and investigated had a noticeable increase from 2013 to 2017. The purpose of this study is to assess the risks associated with falls from heights fatal accidents, which ultimately will be able to help provide the data for proactive prevention against this type of accident. This study used two different risk assessment methods. The first risk assessment consists of a statistical analysis of the collected data. The second risk assessment includes a fault tree analysis. Data extracted from the Department of Occupational Safety and Health Malaysia were used as input for the risk assessment. Results indicate several significant causes that need to be handled immediately. Some of these causes are failure to wear Personal Protective Equipment with an 85.93% occurrence rate, the lack of supervision and leadership with 89.84%, and the absence of work standards or the inability to follow them correctly with 85.15%. This study will help identify root causes, immediate causes, accidents scenarios, and finally the probability and urgency when investigating fatal falls from heights. Elsevier 2022 Article PeerReviewed Zermane, Abderrahim and Mohd Tohir, Mohd Zahirasri and Baharudin, Mohd Rafee and Mohamed Yusoff, Hamdan (2022) Risk assessment of fatal accidents due to work at heights activities using fault tree analysis: case study in Malaysia. Safety Science, 151. art. no. 105724. pp. 1-12. ISSN 0925-7535 https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0925753522000649 10.1016/j.ssci.2022.105724
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description Fatal falls from heights accidents represent a threat to any industry's development and progress. It is crucial to understand how these accidents evolve from a simple ‘near miss‘ into a ‘fatal accident‘. In recent years, Malaysia's construction industry suffered an increasingly alarming number of fatal falls from heights accidents. Fatal accident numbers that were reported and investigated had a noticeable increase from 2013 to 2017. The purpose of this study is to assess the risks associated with falls from heights fatal accidents, which ultimately will be able to help provide the data for proactive prevention against this type of accident. This study used two different risk assessment methods. The first risk assessment consists of a statistical analysis of the collected data. The second risk assessment includes a fault tree analysis. Data extracted from the Department of Occupational Safety and Health Malaysia were used as input for the risk assessment. Results indicate several significant causes that need to be handled immediately. Some of these causes are failure to wear Personal Protective Equipment with an 85.93% occurrence rate, the lack of supervision and leadership with 89.84%, and the absence of work standards or the inability to follow them correctly with 85.15%. This study will help identify root causes, immediate causes, accidents scenarios, and finally the probability and urgency when investigating fatal falls from heights.
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author Zermane, Abderrahim
Mohd Tohir, Mohd Zahirasri
Baharudin, Mohd Rafee
Mohamed Yusoff, Hamdan
spellingShingle Zermane, Abderrahim
Mohd Tohir, Mohd Zahirasri
Baharudin, Mohd Rafee
Mohamed Yusoff, Hamdan
Risk assessment of fatal accidents due to work at heights activities using fault tree analysis: case study in Malaysia
author_facet Zermane, Abderrahim
Mohd Tohir, Mohd Zahirasri
Baharudin, Mohd Rafee
Mohamed Yusoff, Hamdan
author_sort Zermane, Abderrahim
title Risk assessment of fatal accidents due to work at heights activities using fault tree analysis: case study in Malaysia
title_short Risk assessment of fatal accidents due to work at heights activities using fault tree analysis: case study in Malaysia
title_full Risk assessment of fatal accidents due to work at heights activities using fault tree analysis: case study in Malaysia
title_fullStr Risk assessment of fatal accidents due to work at heights activities using fault tree analysis: case study in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Risk assessment of fatal accidents due to work at heights activities using fault tree analysis: case study in Malaysia
title_sort risk assessment of fatal accidents due to work at heights activities using fault tree analysis: case study in malaysia
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2022
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/103104/
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0925753522000649
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