Development of a Sensor-Based Safety Performance Analytic Mobile System to Detect, Alert, and Analyze Workers’ Unsafe Behaviors
Publication: Computing in Civil Engineering 2023
ABSTRACT
Unsafe human behaviors cause over 80% of fatal accidents in the construction industry. Despite the use of technologies for safety control, injury rates remain high due to inadequate safety management systems and lack of analysis of workers' safety performance. This study aims to (1) identify critical construction hazards and the sensor-based technologies that can be used to detect workers' unsafe behaviors; and (2) develop a Sensor-Based Safety Performance Analytic Mobile System (SBSPAMS) to detect, alert, and analyze workers' unsafe behaviors. This study identified the top risky hazards and corresponding unsafe behaviors, along with specific applications of sensor-based technologies for safety management. The developed SBSPAMS is able to monitor and analyze workers’ unsafe behaviors. This study contributes to the body of knowledge of safety management by identifying the critical construction hazards, unsafe behaviors, and the sensor-based technologies for behavior detection. The developed mobile system can be a key instrument for technology adoption in the construction safe management.
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Computing in Civil Engineering 2023
Pages: 476 - 482
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Published online: Jan 25, 2024
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Analysis (by type)
- Business management
- Construction engineering
- Construction management
- Employment
- Engineering fundamentals
- Equipment and machinery
- Human and behavioral factors
- Labor
- Occupational safety
- Personnel management
- Practice and Profession
- Probe instruments
- Public administration
- Public health and safety
- Safety
- System analysis
- Systems engineering
- Systems management
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