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Revista Ingenierías Universidad de Medellín
versión impresa ISSN 1692-3324versión On-line ISSN 2248-4094
Resumen
CARVAJAL PELAEZ, Gloria Isabel y PELLICER ARMINANA, Eugenio. Trends in research about occupational safety and health: Methodology applied to the construction industry. Rev. ing. univ. Medellín [online]. 2009, vol.8, n.15, pp.63-73. ISSN 1692-3324.
This article analyzes trends in research in occupational safety and health applied to the construction industry. The sources of information published in English (1930-2007) and found more than 250 articles. In order to classify these documents, is proposed the "risk-accident cycle" composes by five steps that reflect the reality of occupational safety and health in the construction industry. For each one of them, the papers more representative were selected and later elaborated a tree of chronological evolution considering aspects such as the content, degree of importance, chronological order, application on each subject, etc. With the elaboration of these trees, show the passage of the general to the particular in chronological form, for demonstrating the actual trends in research in safety and health in the construction. As a final remark, nowadays, research in safety and health in the construction is still very limited, being a field with many opportunities and a promising future.
Palabras clave : construction; risk; safety; prevention; accident.