Review
Engineering, Industrial
Jing Xu, Clara Cheung, Patrick Manu, Obuks Ejohwomu
Summary: This study aims to develop a common working definition of safety leading indicators, identify construction safety leading indicators, and create an integrated framework for proactive safety management in the construction industry. The findings revealed sixteen indicators categorized into two dimensions, measuring safety performance and identifying potential incidents and injuries. Researchers and practitioners are urged to consider an ecosystem perspective, temporal effects, and use qualitative and quantitative measurements in future research and implementation of safety leading indicators in construction.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Jing Xu, Clara Cheung, Patrick Manu, Obuks Ejohwomu, Judy Too
Summary: This study aims to explore the implementation of safety leading indicators to improve safety management in the construction industry. Through a Delphi survey and voting analytic hierarchy process, the relative importance of 17 safety leading indicators was determined. The study also identified operational, organizational, and strategic barriers to the effective implementation of safety leading indicators and suggested strategies for addressing these barriers.
Article
Engineering, Chemical
Yi Niu, Yunxiao Fan, Yuanlong Li
Summary: With the growth of the Chinese oil industry, the differences in safety performance among subsidiaries have hindered headquarters' collaborative management. A unified set of safety performance indicators and measurement tool are essential. This study used DEA and EWM to identify critical factors affecting safety performance of the oil industry and measured safety performance of eight subsidiaries. The study found that management commitment was crucial, safety culture was more differentiated than risk management, and reasonable allocation of safety resources played a vital role.
JOURNAL OF LOSS PREVENTION IN THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Civil
Mostafa Dadashi Haji, Behrouz Behnam, Mohammad Hassan Sebt, Abdollah Ardeshir, Ali Katooziani
Summary: In this study, a safety management framework integrating BIM and knowledge base is developed to assess the impacts of safety leading indicators on construction projects. The results show a 38% decrease in accidents after implementing the framework.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
(2023)
Article
Ergonomics
Cristian Castillo, Mohammad Shahriari, Fabricio Casarejos, Pedro Arezes
Summary: This study developed a tool that contains leading operational indicators in occupational safety and health, and prioritized these indicators based on consensus among groups of experts.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND ERGONOMICS
(2023)
Editorial Material
Biodiversity Conservation
Liz Ota, Jennifer Firn, Robin L. Chazdon, Nestor Gregorio, Sharif A. Mukul, Ricardo A. G. Viani, Claudia Romero, John Herbohn
Summary: Leading indicators have the potential to complement lagging indicators in forest restoration by addressing near-term factors influencing progress and performance, such as land tenure security and quality seedling production. Using leading indicators can help identify issues early on, leading to more successful outcomes in the longer term.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2021)
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
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, Industrial
H. Landis Lanny Floyd
Summary: Lost time electrical injuries are rare in the workplace but can have severe consequences. Traditional measurement methods may not effectively evaluate the effectiveness of electrical safety programs. This article explores the use of leading indicators to measure safety performance and reduce the risk of electrical injuries.
IEEE INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS MAGAZINE
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Dong Lang, Chengxu Long, Shuna Lin, Yinghua Xie, Fangfei Chen, Rui Zhao, Chunping Liu, Shangfeng Tang
Summary: This study examines medical personnel's adherence to labor analgesia protocols and the relationships among adherence, satisfaction, and other factors. The findings suggest that there are differences in adherence between different types of medical personnel. Support measures and satisfaction have a positive association with adherence to labor analgesia protocols. Satisfaction plays a significant mediating and moderating role in the relationship between support measures and adherence to labor analgesia standards.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Stephanie Main, Rina Triasih, Jane Greig, Arif Hidayat, Immanuel Billy Brilliandi, Syarifah Khodijah, Geoff Chan, Nova Wilks, Amy Elizabeth Parry, Betty Nababan, Philipp du Cros, Bintari Dwihardiani
Summary: A study in Indonesia found that 25% of healthcare workers had tuberculosis infection, with male, those working in hospitals, and older age being associated with a higher risk of infection.
Article
Business, Finance
Tobias Basse, Steven Desmyter, Danilo Saft, Christoph Wegener
Summary: We argue that financial risk managers should focus on developing forward-looking early warning indicator systems for the North American real estate market. Using time series data from the US housing market, we discuss possible information that such systems could be based on and analyze the relation between US housing starts and the Architectural Billings Index. Our findings provide evidence for a lead-lag relationship and have implications for financial risk managers and ESG investors.
INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF FINANCIAL ANALYSIS
(2023)
Article
Economics
Gabe J. de Bondt, Elke Hahn, Zivile Zekaite
Summary: This paper introduces Area-wide Leading Inflation CyclE (ALICE) indicators to provide early signals for turning points in the euro area inflation cycles. Both the headline and core ALICE indicators have shown to be effective in signaling turning points in inflation cycles and are useful for quantitative forecasting.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FORECASTING
(2021)
Article
Critical Care Medicine
Andrew Letizia, Yongchao Ge, Sindhu Vangeti, Carl Goforth, Dawn Weir, Natalia Kuzmina, Corey Balinsky, Hua Chen, Dan Ewing, Alessandra Soares-Schanoski, Mary-Catherine George, William Graham, Franca Jones, Preeti Bharaj, Rhonda Lizewski, Stephen Lizewski, Jan Marayag, Nada Marjanovic, Clare Miller, Sagie Mofsowitz, Venugopalan Nair, Edgar Nunez, Danielle Parent, Chad Porter, Ernesto Ana, Megan Schilling, Daniel Stadlbauer, Victor Sugiharto, Michael Termini, Peifang Sun, Russell Tracy, Florian Krammer, Alexander Bukreyev, Irene Ramos, Stuart Sealfon
Summary: Young adults with SARS-CoV-2 antibodies have about one-fifth the risk of subsequent infection compared to those without antibodies. While antibodies from initial infection offer protection, they do not guarantee effective neutralization or immunity against future infection. These findings could impact mass vaccination strategies.
LANCET RESPIRATORY MEDICINE
(2021)
Editorial Material
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Qin Zhang
Summary: This article discusses the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in providing human-like intelligence from data to support intelligent decision-making and proposes a few researchable issues for addressing challenges making AI useful in agriculture. It also discusses the potential of AI in adopting resource intelligence, farming intelligence, labor intelligence, and systems intelligence in agricultural production.
COMPUTERS AND ELECTRONICS IN AGRICULTURE
(2023)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Siddharth Bhandari, Matthew R. Hallowell, Leaf Van Boven, Keith M. Welker, Mani Golparvar-Fard, June Gruber
JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
(2020)
Review
Engineering, Industrial
Dylan Hardison, Matthew Hallowell, Ray Littlejohn
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Rico Salas, Matthew Hallowell, Rajagopalan Balaji, Siddharth Bhandari
JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
(2020)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Henrietta Baker, Matthew R. Hallowell, Antoine J-P Tixier
AUTOMATION IN CONSTRUCTION
(2020)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Siddharth Bhandari, Matthew R. Hallowell, Wael Alruqi, Rico Salas
Summary: This study found that personal risk tolerance is positively associated with work-related risk tolerance and risk-taking behavior. However, after controlling for demographic factors, the relationship between personal risk tolerance and risk-taking behavior is no longer significant. In addition, when studying safety behavior, the demographics and social interactions of the workers should be taken into consideration.
JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Siddharth Bhandari, Matthew R. Hallowell
Summary: This paper discusses the challenges of conducting field studies in construction engineering and management research, and the reliance on expert opinions as an alternative method. Despite standard processes, researchers often modify methods to balance research constraints with objectives, which may impact the validity and reliability of results.
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT IN ENGINEERING
(2021)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Katherine Welfare, Fred Sherratt, Matthew Hallowell
Summary: With the increasing demands for new infrastructure, it is critical to recruit and retain skilled construction craft workers. Understanding worker preferences can help preserve positive attributes of the job and mitigate negative ones. Results from interviews with construction workers in Colorado show that workers enjoy tangible results, social interaction, problem-solving, and diverse tasks, while disliking work pressure, indirect communication, mandates from management, dangerous work, and a feeling of indifference from coworkers.
JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Elif Deniz Oguz Erkal, Matthew R. Hallowell, Siddharth Bhandari
Summary: This study identified a comprehensive list of potential predictors of SIFs in construction through expert evaluation and prioritization, laying the foundation for further research on safety prediction and indicating a new paradigm in safety prediction in the construction industry.
JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Siddharth Bhandari, Matthew R. Hallowell
Summary: This study found that safety climate has a negative relationship with risk tolerance and risk-taking decisions, independent of individual risk tolerance levels. The consistency of these results across diverse cultures suggests that multinational organizations can foster a consistent safety culture. Future research is needed to validate these findings and explore the influence of organizational policies on safety climate and risk-based decision making.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Dylan Hardison, Matthew Hallowell, Ray Littlejohn, Paul Goodrum, Siddharth Bhandari
Summary: Research suggests safety reviews are important for Construction Hazard Prevention through Design implementation. Various visual stimuli exist when performing safety reviews and may affect the mental workload of Construction Hazard Prevention through Design tasks. However, no research addresses how spatial cognitive capability, or the format of visual stimuli may affect the mental workload of hazard recognition tasks. To address this gap, safety reviews were conducted across the United States to explore the association of spatial cognitive capability and hazard recognition performance and the variability of the mental workload of hazard recognition tasks across various formats of engineering design. The results indicate no association between spatial cognitive capability and hazard recognition performance, and the format of design had no effect on mental workload.
Proceedings Paper
Engineering, Aerospace
Jazmin Lopez, Siddharth Bhandari, Matthew R. Hallowell
Summary: Virtual reality systems are making significant headway in the construction industry, but face challenges such as standardization, scalability, and cost.
CONSTRUCTION RESEARCH CONGRESS 2022: COMPUTER APPLICATIONS, AUTOMATION, AND DATA ANALYTICS
(2022)
Proceedings Paper
Engineering, Biomedical
Arnaldo Bayona, Siddharth Bhandari, Matthew R. Hallowell
Summary: This paper comprehensively reviews the definitions and assessment methods of serious injuries from various industries and organizations, proposing considerations and recommendations for the construction sector. It introduces a new framework based on the ability to perform Activities of Daily Living, which is both worker-centric and can be standardized across the industry.
CONSTRUCTION RESEARCH CONGRESS 2022: HEALTH AND SAFETY, WORKFORCE, AND EDUCATION
(2022)
Proceedings Paper
Engineering, Biomedical
Sreeja Thallapureddy, Siddharth Bhandari, Matthew R. Hallowell, Fred Sherratt, Evan Stoddard, Hayley Hansen
Summary: Scrutinizing and learning from workplace accidents is crucial for improving safety management systems. There have been various frameworks for incident investigation and organizational learning, but the knowledge is scattered across different domains, making it difficult for safety practitioners to identify limitations and propose improvements. This paper reviews the fragmented literature and identifies key themes for excellent investigation and learning processes. It also explores best practices in the construction industry through conversations with experts.
CONSTRUCTION RESEARCH CONGRESS 2022: HEALTH AND SAFETY, WORKFORCE, AND EDUCATION
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Nicholas Tymvios, Dylan Hardison, Michael Behm, Matthew Hallowell, John Gambatese
Article
Business
Matthew R. Hallowell, Siddharth Bhandari, Wael Alruqi
CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS
(2020)