Major Theories of Construction Accident Causation Models

Running Head: MAJOR THEORIES OF CONSTRUCTION ACCIDENT CAUSATION MODELS
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MAJOR THEORIES OF CONSTRUCTION ACCIDENT CAUSATION MODELS

MAJOR THEORIES OF CONSTRUCTION ACCIDENT CAUSATION MODELS
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Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................2
Review of journal paper........................................................................................................................2
Literature Review..................................................................................................................................2
Analysis of qualitative and quantitative data........................................................................................3
Qualitative Research..........................................................................................................................3
Quantitative Research.......................................................................................................................3
Types of research strategies..................................................................................................................3
Qualitative research strategy.............................................................................................................3
Quantitative research strategy..........................................................................................................3
Applied research strategy..................................................................................................................3
Critical research strategy...................................................................................................................3
Analytic research strategy.................................................................................................................4
Initial research ideas..............................................................................................................................4
References.............................................................................................................................................5

MAJOR THEORIES OF CONSTRUCTION ACCIDENT CAUSATION MODELS
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Introduction
The construction industry is an important part to develop and improve economic growth of any
country. There are many pieces of evidence that represent construction industries as an
inconsistent, unsafely, and hazardous industry such as accidents, permanent disabilities, hazardous,
and injuries. Around 55,000 persons die due to hazards per year, 294,000 die from illnesses and
almost 3.8 million people are injured in the construction industry. According to data from national
safety council in 1996, almost 1000 workers died due to electric injury and 350,000 people suffered
by disabilities. The aim of this research paper is to discuss the common accidents, and injuries in the
construction industry, and overcome hazards, and accident of construction workers.
Review of a journal paper
The title of this journal paper is ‘'MAJOR THEORIES OF CONSTRUCTION ACCIDENT CAUSATION
MODELS’’ which was written by Seyyed Shahab Hosseinian and Zahra Jabbarani Torghabeh. This
paper explains about accidents, injuries, and hazards of construction industries. According to above
authors, there are many reasons through which accidents happen in the construction industry such
as electric injury, unsafe place, and hazards in the workplace. Industry accidents can be stopped by
determining the reasons of accidents; it is possible through investigation processes such as accident
action theories, and human errors. The main aim of this research paper is that to discuss the
common accidents theories which focus on workers injuries, accidents, and hazards of the
construction industry. According to Seyyed Shahab Hosseinian, construction accidents can be
stopped if safety organization reproduces both degradation and these threats. The objective of this
paper is to improve the understanding of causation theories of construction accident which is used
to how hazard in construction industry cause losses. The main drawback of this theory is that it does
not provide strategy and plan for managers to reduce hazards in the construction industry (Cite seer
x, 2012).
Literature Review
A literature review is a type of scholarly paper which is used to give a review on a particular topic. It
is also a part of a graduate student, including in a journal article. It is defined as a review article
which includes knowledge, theoretical, and methodological of a particular topic. A literature review
is also provided explanation or review of any journal paper. There are four types of literature review
used in research such as evaluative, instrumental, exploratory, and systematic review. There are
many importance of literature review in research such as provide a brief summary of research topic,
identify a new path for prior research, Locate own research within the context, Formulate research
problem, It creates a report with audience, and Identify data source of researched topic (Quinlan,
Bohle, and Lamm, 2010).
According to accidents reports almost 88 % of accidents are due to work on the unsafe place, 10 %
due to unsafe situations, and around 2 % of accidents associated due to natural disasters. Heinrich
described the accident causation theory, cost of accidents, unsafe workplace, and effect of safety on
efficiency (Abdelhamid, and Everett, 2000). The management based theory is a type of management
which is responsible for initiating accidents. There are many examples of this theory such as updated