Article
Engineering, Industrial
Arpit Singh, Subhas C. Misra
Summary: This study proposes a framework to evaluate the safety performance of workers in the Indian construction industry, emphasizing the significant role of management and the importance of providing necessary safety training and promoting a friendly work environment. The findings can assist senior management and employees in the small-scale Indian construction industry to achieve better safety management.
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Ali Amer Karakhan, Ahmed Jalil Al-Bayati
Summary: Construction is a hazardous industry with a high number of injuries. However, there are no specific guidelines on how to select qualified construction safety personnel in the US. This study used the Delphi technique to identify the desired qualifications for construction safety personnel, and the findings provided practical guidelines for industry stakeholders. This study fills the gap in knowledge by identifying the desired qualifications and criteria for selecting safety personnel in the US construction industry.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Xiaoting Fan, Daibing Wang, Zeng Tong, Xiaojuan Wang
Summary: The proportion of middle-aged and aging workers in the construction industry is increasing, and the death rate of aging construction workers is higher than other age groups, posing higher risks to industry safety. This study aims to identify the main safety risk factors and their effects on aging construction workers. Through questionnaire design, 6 primary and 30 secondary indexes were selected from 100 to evaluate the influence of aging construction workers on safety risks. The classification of work contents for aging workers in different age groups provides a basis for reducing safety risks.
Review
Environmental Sciences
Mei Liu, Boning Li, Hongjun Cui, Pin-Chao Liao, Yuecheng Huang
Summary: This study reviews the research on construction safety and occupational health and summarizes the research paradigm of recent decades. Through bibliometric analysis, future directions and current limitations in application are identified.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Beidi Li, Carl Schultz, Jochen Teizer, Olga Golovina, Jurgen Melzner
Summary: This paper proposes a unified formal model, called SafeConDM, for construction safety, which includes ontologies of hazard and safety concepts as well as first-order if-then rules. The prototype software tool based on SafeConDM shows potential in construction hazard analysis and safe construction planning decision support, as demonstrated by empirical evaluation on real-world construction building models.
ADVANCED ENGINEERING INFORMATICS
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Vanessa C. Erazo-Chamorro, Ricardo P. Arciniega-Rocha, Nagy Rudolf, Babos Tibor, Szabo Gyula
Summary: Occupational health has changed the definition and understanding of work and the workplace in recent years, leading to a need for continuous improvement in safety and security. Despite debates about which hazards should be considered in order to achieve a truly healthy workplace, this research contributes to efforts by assessing established security risk factors and establishing necessary requirements for a safe and healthy workplace.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Maryam Alkaissy, Mehrdad Arashpour, Ron Wakefield, Reza Hosseini, Peter Gill
Summary: The construction sector is vulnerable to safety risk incidents, with a strong correlation between middle-aged workers and project cost overruns. Tools such as discrete event simulation can quantitatively measure the impact of safety risks on project performance.
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Shuai Tang, Mani Golparvar-Fard
Summary: This paper introduces a vision-based method for predicting worker severity levels, achieving high accuracy and demonstrating the potential for near real-time worker safety detection and assessment using actively captured visual data on construction sites.
JOURNAL OF COMPUTING IN CIVIL ENGINEERING
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Siti Farizwana Mohd Ridzwan, Lin Fritschi, Nirmala Bhoo-Pathy, Wee Lei Hum
Summary: This study aimed to develop a psychometric tool to measure the behavioral factors influencing the use of personal dosimeters among medical radiation workers (MRWs). The tool showed good feasibility, reliability, and validity in measuring these factors, which can help improve behaviors in occupational radiation monitoring.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Dan Chong, Anni Yu, Hao Su, Yue Zhou
Summary: The construction industry is highly dangerous with a high rate of accidents and fatalities. The unsafe behavior of construction workers is a key factor contributing to safety accidents. This study investigates the influence of emotional states on construction workers' recognition ability of safety hazards and suggests that emotional fluctuations can hinder their ability to effectively identify safety hazards.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Rebecca Georgakopoulou, Oraianthi Fiste, Theodoros N. Sergentanis, Angeliki Andrikopoulou, Flora Zagouri, Maria Gavriatopoulou, Theodora Psaltopoulou, Efstathios Kastritis, Evangelos Terpos, Meletios A. Dimopoulos
Summary: Studies on the association between occupational exposure and risk of multiple myeloma suggest a significantly increased risk for firefighters, hairdressers, and employees exposed to engine exhaust, while farming and methylene chloride exposure are non-significantly correlated with the disease. Further epidemiological studies are needed for a more accurate understanding of disease occurrence in working populations.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Review
Engineering, Industrial
Rantsatsi Ndaleni Phinias
Summary: This study aims to provide an overview of leading indicators and identify the benefits and challenges related to their implementation in the construction industry. Using a systematic literature review approach, the study analyzed 34 relevant articles and identified 8 benefits and 8 challenges associated with the implementation of leading indicators. The study findings are critical for increasing construction practitioners and researchers' knowledge of the benefits and challenges related to the implementation of leading indicators.
Article
Engineering, Civil
Changcui Qiu, Xinming Li
Summary: Occupational safety hazards and risk management in construction industries are major concerns worldwide. This study combines attribute-based and data mining approaches to assess occupational risk. The analysis involves quantitative analysis of injuries, identification of risk factors, and exploration of causality links between hazardous activities and injuries. A conceptual digital transformation framework is proposed for up-to-date risk factor evaluation. The blended analysis helps the construction industry identify causes of safety hazards, key safety attributes, and corresponding risk controls.
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
(2023)
Review
Engineering, Industrial
Mikela Chatzimichailidou, Yue Ma
Summary: This paper summarises the existing literature on the application of Building Information Modelling (BIM) technology in the safety management of the construction industry in general and the main safety hazards of modular construction. The findings show that BIM technology has great potential in modular construction for improving worker safety awareness, detecting hazardous factors, and optimizing site layout.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
H. Landis Lanny Floyd II
Summary: Residual risk refers to the remaining amount of risk associated with a task or process after inherent risks have been reduced through acceptable risk controls methodology. This article explores ways to identify and reduce worker exposure to hazardous electrical energy by discussing areas of potential hidden danger, such as management/leadership, facilities design, safe work practices, incident investigations, procurement, workforce, and outsourcing.
IEEE INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS MAGAZINE
(2023)