Occupational Health and Safety Practices in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in The Construction Sector and A New Model Proposal

Fatih Altuntaş; Redvan Ghasemlounıa

doi:10.38088/jise.1400605

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Occupational Health and Safety Practices in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in The Construction Sector and A New Model Proposal

Abstract

The aim of the conducted study is to create a model that examines the average occupational safety performance level by considering both occupational health and safety performance in the workplace and occupational health and safety management system performance to improve the level of occupational health and safety in small and medium-sized construction companies. For this purpose, 34 small and medium-sized construction companies located in various cities in the Marmara Region constitute the sample group of the study. The data obtained from the sample group were analyzed using factor analysis and descriptive analysis in the SPSS program, and fuzzy logic method in the MATLAB program. With the fuzzy logic approach, two input variables and one output variable were created and defined with five parameters each. Subsequently, with 25 rules created using the fuzzy approach, the calculated average safety index was obtained as 5.69. It is observed that 18 construction companies, constituting 52.8% of the examined 34 small and medium-sized construction companies, have a low safety performance, while 16 construction companies, constituting 47.2%, exhibit high performance.

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Ethical Statement

This study is prepared from the doctoral thesis titled "OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY USE METHOD OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SCALE ENTERPRISES IN THE CONSTRUCTION SECTOR AND A NEW MODEL PROPOSAL" under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Redvan GHASEMLOUNIA at Istanbul Gedik University.

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English

Subjects

Civil Engineering (Other)

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Research Article

Authors

Fatih Altuntaş ^*
0009-0007-4456-0850
Türkiye

Redvan Ghasemlounıa
0000-0003-1796-4562
Türkiye

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December 11, 2024

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December 31, 2024

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December 26, 2023

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August 11, 2024

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Year 2024 Volume: 8 Number: 2

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https://doi.org/10.38088/jise.1400605

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APA

Altuntaş, F., & Ghasemlounıa, R. (2024). Occupational Health and Safety Practices in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in The Construction Sector and A New Model Proposal. Journal of Innovative Science and Engineering, 8(2), 132-145. https://doi.org/10.38088/jise.1400605

AMA

1.Altuntaş F, Ghasemlounıa R. Occupational Health and Safety Practices in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in The Construction Sector and A New Model Proposal. JISE. 2024;8(2):132-145. doi:10.38088/jise.1400605

Chicago

Altuntaş, Fatih, and Redvan Ghasemlounıa. 2024. “Occupational Health and Safety Practices in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in The Construction Sector and A New Model Proposal”. Journal of Innovative Science and Engineering 8 (2): 132-45. https://doi.org/10.38088/jise.1400605.

EndNote

Altuntaş F, Ghasemlounıa R (December 1, 2024) Occupational Health and Safety Practices in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in The Construction Sector and A New Model Proposal. Journal of Innovative Science and Engineering 8 2 132–145.

IEEE

[1]F. Altuntaş and R. Ghasemlounıa, “Occupational Health and Safety Practices in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in The Construction Sector and A New Model Proposal”, JISE, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 132–145, Dec. 2024, doi: 10.38088/jise.1400605.

ISNAD

Altuntaş, Fatih - Ghasemlounıa, Redvan. “Occupational Health and Safety Practices in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in The Construction Sector and A New Model Proposal”. Journal of Innovative Science and Engineering 8/2 (December 1, 2024): 132-145. https://doi.org/10.38088/jise.1400605.

JAMA

1.Altuntaş F, Ghasemlounıa R. Occupational Health and Safety Practices in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in The Construction Sector and A New Model Proposal. JISE. 2024;8:132–145.

MLA

Altuntaş, Fatih, and Redvan Ghasemlounıa. “Occupational Health and Safety Practices in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in The Construction Sector and A New Model Proposal”. Journal of Innovative Science and Engineering, vol. 8, no. 2, Dec. 2024, pp. 132-45, doi:10.38088/jise.1400605.

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1.Fatih Altuntaş, Redvan Ghasemlounıa. Occupational Health and Safety Practices in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in The Construction Sector and A New Model Proposal. JISE. 2024 Dec. 1;8(2):132-45. doi:10.38088/jise.1400605

Occupational Health and Safety Practices in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in The Construction Sector and A New Model Proposal

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