Health and safety, prevention and accident costs in construction industry in international comparison / Arbeitsschutz, Prävention und Unfallfolgekosten im Bauwesen im internationalen Vergleich
Author(s): |
Leo Falkner
Johann Schneider Josef Arnold |
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Medium: | journal article |
Language(s): | English, German |
Published in: | Geomechanics and Tunnelling, 2012, n. 5, v. 5 |
Page(s): | 621-630 |
DOI: | 10.1002/geot.201200049 |
Abstract: |
If it's not safe, don't do it! Accidents at work and lost days cost a lot of money. A calculation of the consequential cost of accidents by the Allgemeine Unfallversicherungsanstalt (AUVA) estimates this at 19, 128 Euro per accident in 2010. In the construction industry in Great Britain and the USA, employers and employees generally seem to attach more importance to occupational safety and communicate this more effectively than in Austria and Germany. What are the possible explanations for this difference? This article investigates basic cultural differences in general, in the safety culture and different legal traditions. The factors mentioned are not only decisive for the usual contract and cooperation models between employer and employee in these countries but also have an effect on the sickness statistics and the cost of accidents. |
Keywords: |
safety culture risk culture legal systems contract modells accident statistics safety support
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