TY  - CONF
TI  - Improving Safety Performance Through 5S Program
C1  - Oslo, Norway
C3  - 22nd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
SP  - 1401
EP  - 1412
PY  - 2014
AU  - Leino, Antti
AU  - Heinonen, Riku
AU  - Kiurula, Mari
AD  - Manager for Safety Development, BU Skanska Finland, P.O.BOX 114, FI-00101 Helsinki-Finland, Phone +358 40 866 8551, antti.leino@skanska.fi
AD  - Safety Engineer, BU Skanska Finland, Phone +358 40 5317896, riku.heinonen@skanska.fi
AD  - Safety Engineer, BU Skanska Finland, Phone +358 40 727 8585, mari.kiurula@skanska.fi
ED  - Kalsaas, Bo Terje
ED  - Koskela, Lauri
ED  - Saurin, Tarcisio Abreu
AB  - Employees in the construction industry suffer from poor health and safety performance. Beyond the human suffering, this implies a vast economical problem. Among the most common accident causes in construction are slips, trips and falls (on same level) which often relate to poor order and tidiness. This study describes a 5S program that was launched in a Finnish construction company. The aim of the program was to improve order and tidiness and consequently safety performance. The program consisted of the following phases: awareness campaign, management training, launch of three eLearning training modules, workshops at every site during one week, management site safety visits and follow up inspections. The workshops engaged approximately 2770 employees at 190 jobsites during one week. 94% of staff employees that participated in the workshops considered the workshops beneficial. Actions to improve order and tidiness were achieved through personal engagement and pledges. Safety performance improvement turned out promising. Weekly safety inspection indices rose by 3.4 percentage points. Number of accidents associated with slips and trips reduced. The suggested model enables personnel engagement into order and tidiness improvement. Safety performance follow-up after three months, however, reveal fading effect. Thus a recommendation is made that regular engagement activities on housekeeping improvement need to be incorporated into the construction process.
KW  - Safety
KW  - Accident
KW  - 5S
KW  - Construction
KW  - Housekeeping
KW  - Prevention
PB  - 
T2  - 22nd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
DA  - 2014/06/25
CY  - Oslo, Norway
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1027/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1027
N1  - Export Date: 25 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -