A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR INTEGRATING COST OF QUALITY AND COST OF SAFETY IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
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https://doi.org/10.21837/pm.v23i38.1793Keywords:
cost of safety, cost of quality, integration, risk management, construction projectAbstract
Project acceleration has been growing as a common demand construction projects. This creates challenges to project management in managing project budgets to ensure work quality and eliminate work accidents throughout the project. To address this issue, this study aims to offer a conceptual framework in integrating the cost of quality (COQ) with the cost of safety (COS) estimation method as a model that can be used by project management to optimize resource allocation by providing accident prevention measures and evaluating quality failures. This study conducts a qualitative method through systematic literature review about COQ and COS to formulate a conceptual framework for integrating COQ and COS using risk management framework. This paper found three major reason that integrating COS and COQ are feasible. (1) Quality failures and safety incidents have common precursor issues, (2) Quality and safety could be analyse using risk management perspective, and (3) Quality and safety cost are using similar estimation methods. This integrated COQ and COS model using risk management perspective would provide a conceptual framework for future research in integrating quality and safety management.
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