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  Portuguese strengths and fragilities on Safety and Health practices

  Despite improvements over the years, accidents continue to be a scourge in the construction sector, leading to an increase in the number of journal papers addressing the issue, in an attempt to help construction industry to increase safety performance [1]. This paper aims to help tunneling community, describing the Portuguese approach to most typical health and safety problems in underground excavations performed with the Sequential Excavation Method (SEM). The paper will address various topics, from safety management to emergency planning. Knowing that Portuguese most frequent difficulties in safety and health matters are similar to several other countries, the paper will expose a compilation of Portuguese best practices used to solve those difficulties.

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