Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt
@inbook {2638, title = {Typification of the most common accidents at work and occupational diseases in tunnelling in Portugal}, booktitle = {Occupational Safety and Hygiene V}, year = {2017}, month = {2017-04-10 00:00:00}, pages = {253-256}, publisher = {Taylor and Francis}, organization = {Taylor and Francis}, edition = {Arezes et al. }, abstract = {This\ chapter aims to fill a gap in scientific knowledge, through a statistical analysis of the most typical accidents at work and occupational diseases in tunnelling in Portugal, using Eurostat variables. It will compare the statistics in tunnelling with other types of works, considering the same indicators. First, it pre-sents an overview of statistical data of accidents at work and occupational diseases in the Portuguese con-struction sector, and then move on to the tunnelling statistical data. To obtain the data, the official Portuguese Statistical Authorities{\textquoteright} databases were searched. With the information from 84 accidents at work (year 2013) and 42 cases of occupational diseases (2000-2015) in tunnelling, the paper compares the main indicators in construction to those of tunnelling, establishing the differences that set tunnelling apart from other construc-tion works.
}, keywords = {accidents at work, accupational diseases, typification}, isbn = {978-1-138-05761-6}, doi = {10.1201/9781315164809-47}, author = {Tender, M. and Couto, J. P.} }
The Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction (CTAC) is a research unit of the School of Engineering of University of Minho (UMinho), recognised by the “FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (Foundation for Science and Technology), associated to the Department of Civil Engineering (DEC), with whom it shares resources and namely human resources.
Currently CTAC aggregates 25 researchers holding a PhD of which 20 are faculty professors of the Civil Engineering Department. Read more
Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt