DISCLOSURE OF THE STATE OF THE ART OF PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF WORK SAFETY OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

The construction industry is characterized as an important source of investment and high labor absorption. However, limited standardization of work associated with frequent improvisation and timing of decision making in this activity has generated a number of injuries incompatible with other productive activities in Brazil. This perverse environment led to the establishment in Brazil, in the 70's, of mandatory Professional Security Experts to mitigate the damages resulting from accidents. In order to foster research to identify opportunities to contribute to safety management in construction, this work aims to search the literature and select a portfolio of relevant scientific literature and use it to understand who are the most prominent authors, journals, articles and keywords in performance measurement of work safety in construction projects. Characterized as exploratory-descriptive as to its purpose, this paper uses qualitative and quantitative approaches through the intervention instrument ProKnow-C. We identified 21 articles in line with the topic of interest. Then, through bibliometric analysis, this portfolio showed that: i) the most relevant publication was the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, although not the highest impact factor, ii) the article Mohamed S (2003) Scorecard approach to benchmarking organizational safety culture in construction. J Constr. Eng. Manag. 129: 8088 showed the highest scientific recognition, ii( the authors Fang and Hinze were highlighted in the portfolio and its references, respectively, and iv) the most frequent keywords found were 'security' and 'construction industry' and 'construction'.