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Advancing Occupational Health and Safety in Construction: Innovations, Education, and Training for a Safer Future

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2024 | Viewed by 2500

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Carlos Osorio-Sandoval

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Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
Interests: building information modelling (BIM); construction simulation; health and safety; construction management
Dr. William Collinge

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Mechanical Aerospace Civil Engineering, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Interests: BIM; health and safety; civil engineering; project management; building construction and performance

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The construction industry experiences a staggering number of over 100,000 fatal occupational accidents on an annual basis, highlighting the persistent challenge of occupational health and safety within the sector worldwide. Despite numerous efforts to leverage new technologies in recent years, improving the health and safety performance of the construction industry remains a significant concern for researchers, practitioners, and educators. To address this, a multidisciplinary approach that encompasses research, technological development, practice, education, and training is essential.

This Special Issue aims to provide a collection of articles that not only showcase innovative strategies and best practices but also highlight educational and training initiatives with the potential to advance occupational health and safety in the construction industry.

Possible topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- BIM and digital twins for construction safety management;

- Artificial intelligence and machine learning for accident prediction;

- Integration of wearable technologies for enhancing worker safety;

- Application of virtual and augmented reality in safety training and education;

- Innovative educational programmes to promote safety awareness;

- New technologies to assess and improve safety culture in construction.

Dr. Carlos Osorio-Sandoval
Dr. William Collinge
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • prevention through design
  • design for safety
  • safety education
  • safety training
  • construction health and safety
  • BIM
  • digital twins

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Deploying a Building Information Modelling (BIM)-Based Construction Safety Risk Library for Industry: Lessons Learned and Future Directions
by William Henry Collinge and Carlos Osorio-Sandoval
Buildings 2024, 14(2), 500; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/buildings14020500 - 10 Feb 2024
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A continuing need to improve health, safety and wellbeing in construction has led to multiple research projects and technological innovations. One such innovation is the Safety Risk Library: a repository of data that functions in BIM environments to assist designers and contractors in [...] Read more.
A continuing need to improve health, safety and wellbeing in construction has led to multiple research projects and technological innovations. One such innovation is the Safety Risk Library: a repository of data that functions in BIM environments to assist designers and contractors in identifying health and safety risk scenarios and offer suitable validated treatments to mitigate their effects. This paper reports on the deployment of this library in several construction projects across the United Kingdom and reviews expert and practitioner opinions of such digital solutions for improving health and safety in the future. This paper makes several contributions. The description of an effective process for knowledge base creation, including the data extraction workflow, the anonymization of data and the definition of communication channels aligned to project working practices, is instructive for innovation developers, providing informative guidance through lessons learned. The discussion of expert and practitioner opinions of the functional knowledge base to improve health and safety performance could inform further technological developments in the field and provide empirical insights for developers. Additionally, the alignment of the Safety Risk Library to existing industry standards (PAS1192:6) for better sharing and use of structured health and safety information illustrates how digital solutions can connect directly with industry standards to facilitate improvements to working practices whilst also changing perceptions of how risks may be visualised, understood and actioned by duty holders engaged in construction projects. Full article
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Enhancing Individual Worker Risk Awareness: A Location-Based Safety Check System for Real-Time Hazard Warnings in Work-Zones
by Younggi Hong and Jaeho Cho
Buildings 2024, 14(1), 90; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/buildings14010090 - 28 Dec 2023
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This study focuses on improving pre-emptive risk recognition and safety checks to prevent workplace accidents. It underscores improvements by addressing existing research issues, suggesting potential enhancements through system development. Work approval procedures and workers’ prior risk awareness, through the confirmation of work safety [...] Read more.
This study focuses on improving pre-emptive risk recognition and safety checks to prevent workplace accidents. It underscores improvements by addressing existing research issues, suggesting potential enhancements through system development. Work approval procedures and workers’ prior risk awareness, through the confirmation of work safety standards in physically separated work areas, are fundamental methods of preventing serious accidents and creating a safe work environment. A key factor concerning worker safety is recognizing the potential accident risk factors (or hazards) in advance through practical job hazard analysis and consequently take risk-reduction measures in case the safety standards are not met. Despite the crucial significance of pre-awareness of work risks at the majority of construction sites, tools to enhance this awareness are currently limited. Furthermore, real-time detection of work risks and the implementation of risk reduction measures are contingent upon a monitoring environment and a robust safety culture. This study proposed construction worker location-tracking technology that recognizes personal identification (ID). A safety check system based on location tracking combining personal quick response code (QR code) recognition and computer vision technology to automatically identify workers’ personal identities and track their physical location was proposed. A real-time safety check system was implemented to classify automatically whether workers have confirmed hazards and to approve a work process in high-risk workplaces by supervisors. Location-tracking technology with ID recognition performed the following two safety management functions. First, if a construction worker does not pre-check the work risk information before entering the work zone, the geofencing technology automatically classifies workers as those who are not aware of job hazards. Secondly, the safety manager or supervisor entering the on-site work zone possesses the authority to halt work if the work environment fails to meet safety standards and can issue warnings regarding risky situations. Essential functions were validated through a case study involving preliminary testing within the development system. To assess the practical application of the system, virtual simulations were conducted using recorded videos from a construction site to replicate the two essential functions of the system. The system was constructed using an Apache server and Python code, and for testing purposes, the names of the workers were randomized. Full article
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