A formal model for construction safety risk management

COBRA 2007 - the construction and building research conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors:

This paper presents the theory behind a formal method for strategically matching safety program elements to construction processes. This decision scheme assumes that every construction activity is associated with specific safety risks and that each safety program element is capable of mitigating a portion of such risks. Once the cumulative risk for a construction process has been assessed, safety program elements may be ranked and selected based on their ability to mitigate the risk.