TY  - CONF
TI  - Working Near the Edge: A New Approach to Construction Safety
AU  - Howell, Gregory A.
AU  - Ballard, Glenn
AU  - Abdelhamid, Tariq S.
AU  - Mitropoulos, Panagiotis
AD  - Executive Director, Lean Construction Institute, Box 1003, Ketchum, ID 83340. 208/726-9989. ghowell@leanconstruction.org
AD  - Research Director, Lean Construction Institute, 4536 Fieldbrook, Oakland Ca. 510/530- 8656. gballard@leanconstruction.org
AD  - Assistant Professor, 207 Farrall Hall, Construction Management Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1323. tabdelha@msu.edu
AD  - Ph.D., Process Improvement Coordinator, Menlo Park, CA, 94025. takism@earthlink.net
ED  - Formoso, Carlos T.
ED  - Ballard, Glenn
PY  - 2002
DA  - 2002/08/06
T2  - 10th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
C3  - 10th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
CY  - Gramado, Brazil
SP  - 49
EP  - 60
AB  - 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.
KW  - Accident
KW  - accident theory
KW  - decision making
KW  - hazard
KW  - risk
KW  - safety
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/189/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/189
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -