Article
Ergonomics
Leif Berglund, Maria Johansson, Magnus Nygren, Bjorn Samuelson, Magnus Stenberg, Jan Johansson
Summary: The study analyzed accidents in the Swedish construction industry in 2016, finding common problems across trades but also specific issues in certain trades. Future studies focusing on accidents in different construction industry trades are recommended for further analysis.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND ERGONOMICS
(2021)
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
Antonio Trillo Cabello, Maria Martinez-Rojas, Jesus A. Carrillo-Castrillo, Juan Carlos Rubio-Romero
Summary: Despite continuous efforts to improve safety, worker safety awareness on construction sites remains insufficient. This study analyzes occupational accident data on Spanish construction sites from 2003 to 2015 using data mining methods, identifying patterns and recurrent factors in each construction phase.
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Leif Berglund, Jan Johansson, Maria Johansson, Magnus Nygren, Bjorn Samuelson, Magnus Stenberg
Summary: The EU directive 92/57/EEC requires health and safety considerations in every stage of construction work and has been incorporated into the regulations of member countries. Sweden was assigned by the European Commission to clarify the implementation of the directive, including the management roles and responsibilities during planning and execution, which became part of national regulations in 2009. However, a study on accident trends in the construction industry following these changes showed that the new management roles did not have a noticeable impact on accident rates. The study suggests the need for broader analysis on nation-specific changes to health and safety management and policy, including the potential effects on occupational diseases.
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Eleni Iacovidou, Phil Purnell, Konstantinos Daniel Tsavdaridis, Keerthan Poologanathan
Summary: This study highlights how modular construction can improve efficiency and productivity in the UK construction sector, while also promoting sustainability throughout the entire value chain. However, the current focus on resource efficiency upstream of the construction value chain neglects the environmental and economic impacts downstream, pointing to the need for a more integrated approach to sustainably improving the sector.
JOURNAL OF BUILDING ENGINEERING
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Wei Li, Libo Cao, Pengyu Yue, Shiping Wen, Jiacai Liao, Jiahao Xia, Xiexing Feng
Summary: This paper proposes a flexible technique for a variable-angle around view monitor system (VAVM) for articulated engineering vehicles (AEV). The system includes static calibration and dynamic execution stages, and the experimental results demonstrate its effectiveness in producing globally balanced and seamless around view images.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Gokhan Kazar, Semra Comu
Summary: Construction work conditions contribute to physical fatigue and mental stress in workers, the primary cause of accidents. Studying the relation between construction accidents and physiological variables reveals that variations in physiological risk factors at certain working periods pose a high risk for workers. It is suggested to arrange work-cycle rests and introduce an early warning system to monitor physiological values.
ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURAL MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Wei Tong Chen, Hew Cameron Merrett, Ying-Hua Huang, Theresia Avila Bria, Ying-Hsiu Lin
Summary: The study found a significant positive relationship between safety climate and personnel safety behavior on building construction sites in Taiwan, with SC level positively impacting SB participation and overall safety perceptions. Higher SC cognition among Taiwan's construction workers resulted in better SB performance. Safety commitment and safety training had the strongest relationship with SB, with safety training having a deep impact on SB cognition.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Felix Yamuza-Gonzalez, Andres Pastor-Fernandez, Alberto Cerezo-Narvaez, Manuel Otero-Mateo
Summary: This study aims to develop a new system as an auxiliary means to prevent occupational accidents in the construction sector caused by falls from height. The research tests the capabilities of alternative materials and establishes the requirements and needs for a new temporary edge protection system. The study also uses the Kano model and analytic hierarchy process to filter attributes and select materials for the preliminary design.
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Shuwen Deng, Rui Peng, Yonggang Pan
Summary: This study constructs a cognitive failure model based on cognitive safety theory to explain the mechanisms of construction workers' unsafe behaviors. The results show that factors such as safety vigilance, hazard identification, safety knowledge, safety behavior attitude, and professional skills may lead to construction workers' unsafe behaviors.
ADVANCES IN CIVIL ENGINEERING
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Kerim Koc
Summary: This research uses national statistics and machine learning methods to study the influence of national conditions on the fatality risk of construction workers in Turkey. It proposes a framework that can be used by policymakers and governmental authorities to help reduce national occupational fatality risk.
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT IN ENGINEERING
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Urban Kjellen
Summary: The research addresses the construction industry's need for a real-time safety performance indicator. It involves the development and testing of a barrier indicator for managing the risk of fatal accidents in construction. The study evaluates the indicator's practical use and designs a barrier management system for construction projects.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Kerim Koc, Omer Ekmekcioglu, Asli Pelin Gurgun
Summary: This study aims to predict occupational accident outcomes based on national data using machine learning (ML) methods coupled with several resampling strategies.
ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURAL MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Kerim Koc, Omer Ekmekcioglu, Asli Pelin Gurgun
Summary: This study aims to develop a national data-driven safety management framework based on accident outcome prediction in the construction industry in Turkey. The proposed algorithm successfully detects construction workers who might face a fatality risk, and the analysis results are used to develop a construction safety management plan for identifying workers/conditions most susceptible to fatalities.
JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
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
Engineering, Civil
Byung Wan Jo, Sumit Chakraborty, Muhammad Ali Sikandar, Yun Sung Lee
KSCE JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
(2018)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Byung Wan Jo, Yun Sung Lee, Jung Hoon Kim, Rana Muhammad Asad Khan
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Byung Wan Jo, Jun Ho Jo, Rana Muhammad Asad Khan, Jung Hoon Kim, Yun Sung Lee
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Byung-Wan Jo, Yun-Sung Lee, Jun Ho Jo, Rana Muhammad Asad Khan
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Byung Wan Jo, Rana Muhammad Asad Khan, Yun Sung Lee, Jun Ho Jo, Nadia Saleem
JOURNAL OF SENSORS
(2018)
Article
Engineering, Civil
Byung Wan Jo, Sumit Chakraborty, Seung-Tae Lee, Yun Sung Lee
KSCE JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
(2019)
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Byung Wan Jo, Rana Muhammad Asad Khan, Yun-Sung Lee
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Byung-Wan Jo, Yun-Sung Lee, Rana Muhammad Asad Khan, Jung-Hoon Kim, Do-Keun Kim
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
JunHo Jo, ByungWan Jo, JungHoon Kim, SungJun Kim, WoonYong Han
JOURNAL OF SENSORS
(2020)
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Jung Hoon Kim, Byung Wan Jo, Jun Ho Jo, Do Keun Kim
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jung Hoon Kim, Byung Wan Jo, Jun Ho Jo, Yun Sung Lee, Do Keun Kim
Summary: The study introduces a novel method for detecting hard hat use on construction sites using modified wearable devices, which utilize sensors to automatically notify managers when workers do not wear required hard hats and monitor heart rate abnormalities.