| dc.description.abstract | Taiwan is located on the Eurasian Plate and Philippine Plate convergent
boundary. The two plates crushing into each other causes Taiwan has more mountains
and valleys than plains, so tunnel constructions have been important in public
constructions. As the scale and the numbers of tunnel increase, how to provide safety
and health in construction environment has become a major issue.
Recent years, the occurrence rate of major occupational hazard in
construction is high. To investigate the causes, the constructions industry only focuses
on what they are supposed to do according to the law but fails to consider and put the
tasks about safety and health in the administration system of the organization. These
organizations lack of their own policies about safety and health. The constructions
industry in Taiwan does not value the advantage of record, audit, and assessment on
performance, and they also lack of the management concepts of risk management,
purchase, and change. They focus on major issues but neglect other minor issue.
Therefore, safety and health management has become a formality, and the standard of
management has decressed year by year. Obviously, the improvement of the safety
and health on tunnel construction has to rely on establishing a complete occupational
safety and health management system just the framework of quality and environment
management system. The system should extend safety and health planning,
establishing, executing, assessing and improving, and PDCA management circulation
mechanism. The system should take safety and health management as an internal part
of business management in the constructions industry, fix the traditional concept of
only focusing on major issues, systematize these management techniques, ensure the
implementation of the multi-safety and health system, and effectly decrease the
danger and risk of tunnel construction.
This research uses safety and health management of the New Austrian
Tunneling Method as reference, trying to apply Taiwan occupational safety and health
management system. It emphasizes risk assessment and safety audit, change
management, emergency control, purchase management, provides management
system to improve the performance of tunnel construction and reduce the occurance
rate of occupational hazard. It will help to provide a safer and healthier working
environment, and achieve the goal of zero construction hazard.
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