Designing Accidents Reporting Tool for Construction Accidents in the UAE

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Designing Accidents Reporting Tool for
Construction Accidents in the UAE
United Arab Emirates University College of
Engineering Training and Graduation Projects
Unit Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering

• Student name ID
• Shaikha Abdulla 200202804
  Azza Abdul Rahman
  200104825
• Graduation Project Code CEF1-8
• Dr.Noura Al Kaabi

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Outline

• Introduction
• Types of construction accidents
• Some cases studied
• Construction accidents from the news papers
• Accidents reports from the Ministry of Labour
• Statically work injuries in the ministry of
  labour
• Designing accident reporting system
• Conclusion
• Recommendations

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Introduction

• Accident can be defined as something going
  wrong unexpectedly.
• Physical examples include an unavoidable
  collision (including a person or object falling
  by chance).

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Introduction

• The term is also loosely applied to mean any
  undesirable outcome, even if it could have been
  avoided, such as getting injured by touching
  something sharp, hot, electrically live,
  ingesting poisons, or other injuries caused by
  lack of ordinary precautions.

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Types of Construction Accidents

• 1- Fall from Heights
• 2- Struck-By
• 3- Electrical Incidents
• 4- Trenching and Excavation

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Common Types of Construction Accidents
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Cases of Construction Accident

• Some construction accident cases were
  studied and analysed.

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Worker Plunges To Death From 12th Floor of
Building

• A worker died on the spot after falling from
  the 12th floor of a building at a construction
  site in Al Nahda. A carpenter fell from the
  building after slipping off the edge of the 12th
  floor.

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Worker Plunges To Death From 12th Floor of
Building

• The on-site foreman said that the worker fell
  after losing his balance as he was feeling dizzy,
  and it may be a heatstroke who cause the worker
  to feel dizzy and fall.
• Another obvious reason could be that it was the
  lack of safety equipments/fall protection
  equipment such as safety belt, which the worker
  should wear when he works in high or elevated
  places.

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Building under construction in Al Nahda, Dubai,
from where the worker fell to his death (circled)
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Fall Protection Equipments Used In Foreign
Countries

• 1- Guard rails.
• 2- Safety net.
• 3- Fall arrest system.

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Guard Rails
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Safety Net
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Fall Arrest System
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Safety precaution in the UAE
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Fatalities In Dubai Airport Collapse

• A wall has collapsed at Dubai's airport
  construction site, killing at least five workers
  and injuring many more (September 2004).
• A large partition in a building under
  construction collapsed, the contractor said.
  About 150 workers were on site when the partition
  fell.
• At least five people were killed on the spot
  and some died in hospital.

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The collapsed wall
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Fortune Tower Construction Accident

• Four construction workers were killed and 67
  were injured when a fire engulfed a high rise
  building under construction on Shaikh Zayed Road,
  opposite Dubai Marina (January, 2007).

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The Fortune Tower Incident

• A 22-year old Indian worker standing at the
  bottom of the fortune tower. The iron rod
  apparently fell from the 25th floor of the
  building site and entered the victim from the
  back and exited from this pelvis. The rod was
  2.5M long and 18 mm thick.
• The bar had severed the coronary artery,
  resulting in severe internal bleeding"

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Warning

• The Next Photo may not be appropriate for those
  who have weak hearts

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The worker with the bar still sticking out of his
back
An X-ray showing the bar
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Some Cases of Construction Accident From The News
Papers
Case Date Month Year Location Cause Died Injured
Case 1 20 June 2007 Dubai Fire Engine 1 15
Case 2 13 May 2007 Abu Dhabi. Wall Collapse 4 3
Case 3 12 April 2007 Ras Al Khaimah drowned in a water reservoir 1 0
Case 4 2 June 2007 Abu Dhabi A crane collapse 1 2
Case 5 24 June 2007 Sharjah fall from 6 storey building 1 0
Case 6 31 July 2007 Dubai falling from the 12th floor 1 0
Case 7 29 Jan 2008 Dubai Falling of a concrete block 1 10
Case 8 8 July 2007 Dubai Scaffolding collapsed 0 20
Case 9 31 Agust 2008 Dubai elevator collapsed 0 3
Case 10 14 Feb 2007 Dubai Falling of a an Iron rod 0 1
Case 11 27 Sep 2007 Dubai Wall Collapse 5 12
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Location and the number of injury and died
Month and the number of injury and died
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Causes of accident and the number of injury and
died.
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Accidents Records From The Ministry of Labour
From 1/1/2006 to 31/12/2006 From 1/1/2006 to 31/12/2006
Minor injury 87
Medium injury 30
Sever 3
Died 1
Total 121
From 1/1/2007 to 30/6/2007 From 1/1/2007 to 30/6/2007
Minor injury 140
Medium injury 41
Sever 9
Died 13
Total 203
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Statistical Work Injuries In The Ministry of Labor
Name of injury Age Job Time of accident Location of accident Causes of accident Type of injury Name of Hospital Treatment result
1                
2                
3                
4                
5                
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Design Data (Entry Sheet)

• Date of accident
• Time of accident
• Name of worker
• Nationality
• Type of accident
• Description of the injury
• Is there any equipment involved?
• Was there any tools? What kind of tools?
• Was the accident caused by other worker?
• Was there any negligence? By whom?
• The severity of the injuries. Minor, medium,
  severe
• The procedure that was followed (Call ambulance,
  Call police, Notify supervisor, is there a first
  aid kit?)

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Objectives of the Database

• Collecting data to analyze trends.
• Designing a reporting tool (Automated Accident
  Reporting Tool database).

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Framework
Output
Input
MOL(manual entry)
Main Database (Record Keeping)
Report of accident
Desired Record
Web-Based(web entry)
Filter

• User Defined
• Ready made

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Design Database interface(Outline of Input
screen)

• Screen 1

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Outline of Screen No.2
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Outline of Screen 3-A

• Report new Accident

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Screen 3-B Search Screen
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Outline of The Output Screen

• 1- Record

No Name Age Nationality Date Year Type of accident
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Description of the injury Is there a safety engineer on site severity of the injuries procedure followed

2- Graph
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About Database

• In design process, there are many features we
  need
• Database capabilities ( record keeping)
• Web integration capabilities
• Graph, chart capabilities.
• Also many programs to use
• Microsoft visual web developer
• Microsoft Access
• Visual Basic

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About Database

• Database
• Is a collection of information organized in
• such a way that a computer program can quickly
  select
• desired pieces of data.
• Microsoft Access
• Is a computer application used to create and
  manage computer
• based databases on desktop computers and/or on
  connected
• computers (a network)

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Procedure To Follow
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Definitions Related To Database
What is a table A table holds data about a
particular item, such as products or
suppliers. What is a record A record is a
collection of information that relates to a
particular item within that data base table. Each
item within a record is called a field.
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Definitions Related To Database
What is a field Fields are the individual item
that makes up a record within the data base.
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Definitions Related To Database
What is field data types A field must have a
specific data type format. The data types that
are available within Microsoft Access, including
text, number, currency, Date/time, yes/no, etc.
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Designing Table
Table of the accident report
Table of the Company
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Designing Queries

• What is a Queries?
• In normal English, a query is a question.
• Objective of queries
• The main objective of the query is to let the
  user choose his own result for example to see
  what is the most type of accident happened so
  that he could find where is the problem and try
  to find solution for the problem.

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Types of Queries

• There are five types of queries which are
• Select query This is the simplest type of query
  you can create.
• Action query This query performs an action on
  the data retrieved. For instance, the query could
  create a new table and move records to it.
• Crosstab query. This query presents information
  in a spreadsheet-like manner similar to the
  Datasheet.
• Parameter query This query works in conjunction
  with other types of queries.
• SQL query To formulate some types of queries,
  you must use SQL (structured query language).

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Creating A Simple Query

• To create a simple query, select this option from
  the New Query dialog box
• Access then displays the Simple Query Wizard
  dialog box shown in Figure.

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Example of The Queries
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Designing Report

• Report is simply another part of the database.

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Creating A Report

• To start the Report Wizard, First,
  double-click your mouse on the Create Report By
  Using Wizard option. Access displays the Report
  Wizard dialog box.

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Specifying The Report Layout

• Using the dialog box shown in the Figure
  below, we can indicate different options for
  laying out our report. The option buttons in the
  dialog box control different layouts.

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Accident Reporting Program (Screen Shots)
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Accident Reporting Program (Accident Reporting
Form)
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Accident Record View
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Special Query/Specific Data Report (Example 1)
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Output Report
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Special Query/Specific Data Report (Example 2)
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Special Query
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Special Query Special Query/Specific Data Report
(Example 3)
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Query/Specific Data Report (Example 3)
Type of Accident
Name Of Company
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Query/Specific Data Report (Example )

• Examples of some queries we designed, they
  might be not the best quires available but these
  are for instruction purposes. We could design
  more according to what is needed.

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Application For This Database Or Accident
Reporting Tool

• Ministry of Labours (MOL).
• Easy to model data.
• Easier standard format and easier to report
  accident.
• Create and measure safety performance for
  contractor.
• Contractor.
• Easy to report.
• Easy to keep record and get his performance.

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Conclusion

• Analyzed some cases of construction accident.
• Studied each case and classified them by the
  types of accidents. Also reviewed and analyzed
  the accident reporting format in UAE especially
  in the ministry of labour.

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Conclusion

• Designing Accident reporting tool (Automated
  Accident Reporting Tool) that is capable of
  compiling accident reports and summarizing
  accident data.
• The data are vital to help the ministry of labour
  to take key decisions related to the safety and
  identify major problem areas that need solutions.
• The tool could be improved further to accommodate
  requirements by the ministry of labor.

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Recommendations

• Creating special authority for the safety and
  health in the UAE and it will be under the
  Ministry of Labor.
• If we continue on this subject first we will go
  through the survey and distribute it then we will
  analyze the survey and try to find solutions for
  the problem.
• Also we can improve our accident reporting tool
  to accommodate the requirements of the Ministry
  of Labor.

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Whats Next?

• Presentation to the Ministry of Labor
• Further refinements and improvements