2023 Volume 79 Issue 24 Article ID: 23-24013
In the construction industry, risk assessments are conducted at the planning stage of construction work and at the time of preparing work procedures. Although the timing and content of risk assessments differ depending on who conducts them, they are conducted to predict latent risks in the work and to prevent occupational accidents. At the beginning of this century, FRAM (Functional Resonance Analysis Method) was proposed as a method to prevent accidents by identifying risks that cannot be identified by conventional methods. FRAM is an analytical method that considers the activities performed at a site as a socio-technical system and identifies risks through the resonance of functions that emerge from the combination of functions that are coupled and dependent on each other. In order to reduce the differences in analytical results among practitioners due to the fact that FRAM is a qualitative analytical method, the use of a semi-quantitative method in FRAM has resulted in more objective analytical results and has enabled us to address hidden risks.
