Analysis of Causes and Countermeasures of Occupational Accidentsin Construction Industry

The construction industry is one of the most important industry in the national development, which has specific characteristics of strong regional relation, interface complexity, and labor-intensive. With the increasing changes of construction environment, labor faces with changing risk factors. Due to construction workers experienced a higher risk than others, and when a major occupational accident happened, owners or society often suffers more serious loss. According to the major occupational accident data of Council of Labor Affairs, the fatal injury number for the construction industry is higher than any industry. The leading causes of worker deaths were falling, followed by collapse, and electrocution. In the past, the review of construction occupational accident focused on external factors such as machinery, equipment, and working environment, while worker themselves have recently come into focus. Especially in fall and electrocution, those occupational accidents are closely related to their own condition. The study integrated the major occupational accident data in the construction industry from 2000 to 2014. This study is sorted out total 1,261 fall and 198 electrocution accidents in fifteen years and found the causes of accidents are difficult to classify. Labor who work less than six months is high-risk group, which included 64.6% fall accidents, 25% electrocution accidents. Further in-depth analysis of researching the unsafe acts of the high-risk group, in which has 41.4% fall accidents caused by the incorrect using or did not using of protective gear, and which has 32.8% electrocution accidents caused by the incorrect using and did not use insurance safety measure or regarding the warning, and others. By comparison analysis the data, we can understand the main occurrence causes of different risk factors, strengthen supervision and inspection those risk factors. This will reduce the probability of occurrence of occupational accident and focus on the major risk causes. Through the analysis of work experience, unsafe acts, unsafe conditions, disaster occurrence time, and compare the properties with causation to understand the potential hazard and distribution of occupational accident data. By means of the analysis of the accident data, reminding labor to raise the security awareness of work behavior and the environment, while preparing safety management measures and adopt workable security mechanisms to managers.