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WORKING NEAR THE EDGE: A NEW APPROACH TO CONSTRUCTION SAFETY

Gregory A. Howell · Glenn Ballard · Tariq Sami Abdelhamid · Panagiotis Mitropoulos

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Construction safety has substantially improved, but has reached a plateau. Further improvement will come from spreading Best Practice throughout the industry, or from Breakthrough that transcends Best Practice. We are working on Breakthrough and propose that what is needed is a new theory of accidents. Current Best Practice is described along with its underlying theoretical assumptions. An alternative theory is proposed, based on the work of Jens Rasmussen, a leading thinker on risk management in dynamic environments. A research program is proposed to test that theory and to develop a new approach to safety management.

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