依據行政院勞工委員會的統計數據顯示，營造業在我國歷年職災死亡人數中一直占最大比例，而屋頂作業正是其最危險的項目之一；近年來雖提出各種不同的策略或手法試著將災害減到最低，但屋頂墜落死亡人數卻不減反增。屋頂作業多為臨時性或短程作業，作業內容也大都為局部修補或短暫維修，由於時間有限，雇主及作業勞工大都忽略最重要的安全防護，導致屋頂作業墜落事故居高不下，如何從此高風險的作業中保護作業勞工是為當務之急。 本研究參考英國、美國、澳洲、日本、香港與國際勞工組織所發布之屋頂作業墜落預防措施，並與我國現行屋頂作業防護方式進行比較，從國外先進國家對屋頂墜落預防方法中找出與國內不同點，進而截長補短提出屋頂作業墜落預防具體建議及作法。將墜落防護分成防護策略、教育訓練、施工設備、墜落預防設備與墜落攔截設備五大考量面向，依其推行難易度、急迫性與事業單位的可接受性，提出短期、中期及長期墜落預防措施，提供事業單位以循序漸進的方式運用，達到確實防止屋頂作業墜落的目的。 In accordance with the statistics of the Council of Labor Affairs of Taiwan the construction industry contributed the largest proportion of the fatal occupational accidents in our country over the years and the roof work was one of the most dangerous works. In recent years, many fall prevention measures were recommended, but they didn’t significantly decrease the deaths of roof falls. Roof works are mostly temporary or short-term tasks and their contents are mainly local or temporary repairs. Employers and workers generally ignore safe guard due to time constraints and it results in a large number of fall accidents during roof work. To protect workers against injuries in high risk work is the front burner. This study referred to the fall prevention strategies and practices of Britain, the United States, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and International Labour Organization, compared prevention measures of advanced countries with the execution conditions of fall prevention in domestic enterprises and then offered the specific suggestions and measures to effectively reduce the occurrence of fall injuries. This study also separately proposes short, medium and long-term of the fall prevention measures in the five aspects of guard tactics, education and training, construction equipment, fall prevention devices and fall arrest devices for fall prevention and wishes enterprises to gradually reach the purpose of reducing fall injuries.
