Query: safety management system for construction sites

title: Factors influencing the implementation of a safety management system for construction sites
abstract: The objective of the study was to determine the influential safety factors that governed the success of a safety management system for construction sites. The number of incidences among construction workers and the level of awareness on matters concerning safety were also determined. The study involved a self administered three part questionnaire among the workers and interviews with industry experts involved in brick laying, concreting and in related assorted trades. Part A of the questionnaire concerned personal particulars, Part B involved training and experience and Part C was based on 28 industry accepted safety factor elements. The construction sites ranged from high rise buildings, landed houses and infrastructure renovation. The sample size was 275. From the survey it was found that the most influential safety factor was personal awareness followed closely by communication. Suggestions and recommendations on equipment design and improved work practices and procedures to improve the efficiency and productivity of construction workers were proposed. Management was urged to get their workers better informed about safety matters.

title: Design and first development of an automated real time safety management system for construction sites
abstract: This paper reports a feasibility study which addressed the development of a new, advanced system mainly devoted to automatic real time health and safety management on construction sites. The preliminary analyses and experiments described in this paper concern two of the most important functionalities which must be included in the system's final release. The first functionality consists in real time position tracking of workers involved on construction sites and the second in a software tool for the prevention of non authorized access to dangerous zones. This research step is part of a vaster, ongoing research project, addressing the development of a new generation of advanced construction management systems which allow real time monitoring and coordination of tasks, automatic health and safety management, on site delivery of technical information and the capture of "as built" documentation. This paper focuses mainly on the development of a reliable methodology for real time monitoring of the po.

title: Advanced Real Time Safety Management System for Construction Sites
abstract: This paper reports the results of preliminary experiments concerning position tracking of workers in construction sites. The experiments are part of an ongoing research concerning the development of a new generation of advanced construction management systems allowing real time monitoring and coordination of tasks, automatic health and safety management, on site delivery of technical information, capture of "as built" documentation, etc. This paper focuses on the development of a reliable methodology for real time monitoring of workers' and equipment's position in outdoor construction sites through the application of technologies based on Ultra Wide Band (UWB) Guidelines for the design of the receivers' topology will be addressed and the results of measurements done on a typical medium sized block of flats in different construction progress phases will be summed.

title: Design and Evaluation of an Overall Construction Safety Management System for Residential Construction Sites: A Graph Theoretic Approach
abstract: The present work depicts a systematic approach for development of a benchmarked model for a safety oriented residential construction site or project analysed up to the sub component level. For the evaluation of the benchmarking model, attributes governing the safety management issues on the residential construction sites have been identified. An attribute digraph for the characteristics of the construction safety management systems has been developed. The inheritances and inter dependencies of the governing attributes have been rated using weighted approach. The sensitivity analysis for the developed benchmarked model has been carried out by calculation of the permanents of a typical safety oriented construction site management system. Keyword: construction safety benchmarking model, construction safety issues, matrix function, graph theoretic approach

title: IoT based Dangerous Zone Alarming System for Safety Management in Construction Sites

title: The Combination of HFACS and Context aware Technology for Personalized Safety Management on Construction Sites
abstract: Human related errors, which are usually unpredictable, are one of the major causes of most incidents and accidents on construction sites. By taking the advantages of context aware technology, the personalized safety management, an effective method to avoid human related errors, becomes possible. The CA HFACS model is promoted to manage such human errors, combing the Context aware technology (CA) and Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) First, the personalized factors influencing construction safety performance are summarized from related literatures. These personalized factors incorporate 20 risk factors that are categorized into 5 levels: L1: Health condition, L2: Mental state, L3: Weather, L4: Act properly, and L5: History state. Subsequently, the relationship between these factors and project safety performance is showed in the CA HFACS model. These factors are then validated by data collected with questionnaires, and the process of data collection is also demonstrated. Finally, the proposed model is applied to a high speed railway project with PSIM system, a software developed by the authors. The application demonstrates the models abilities to systematically collect safety data of on site workers, thus largely improving safety assessment capabilities and effectively creating a safer environment for the workers concerned.

title: A proactive system for real time safety management in construction sites
abstract: Construction sites still present high accident rates. The advent of advanced sensing technologies has motivated the development of unprecedented automated systems, capable of supporting health and safety control. Their application is particularly critical in those cases where regular safety inspections may prove to be inadequate in terms of preventing risks which, because of their specific nature, are unpredictable. This paper reports the development of a first prototype for the proactive safety management and real time signaling of potential overhead hazards. It is expected to enhance standard safety policies and assist inspectors and coordinators in executing their tasks. The system performs real time tracking using ultra wide band technology and implements proactive virtual fencing logics. The development of the system, its laboratory test results, the algorithm optimization, and the final field test results are reported herein. The results achieved demonstrate the capability of proactive logics to reinforce safety management policies and assist personnel in coping with unpredictable hazardous events.

title: Construction Safety Management System at Project Level using System Dynamic Model (SDM)
abstract: Construction industry is one of the sectors that contributed to a high number of accidents. Three elements (i.e. cost, time, and quality) that measure the successful of construction project have been the main key driver, but safety and health is deemed as taboo. Hence caused several setbacks especially on the daily workers facing hazards that could happen due to negligence towards safety aspect. So, identifying the root causes of accidents is vital to prevent it from happening. Therefore, this research was conducted to improve construction safety management system at project level by using System Dynamic Model (SDM) to achieve three objectives which are: (1) to identify the common factors that cause safety accidents on the construction sites, (2) to determine the theme for the factors identified, and (3) to investigate the interactions between the themes using SDM. For this research, semi structures interview and questionnaire survey to 54 respondents from 15 construction sites around Daerah Petaling were conducted. This research revealed 18 factors of accidents and classified them into four (4) themes which used to create a System Dynamic Model that identify four key factors for each theme. On top of that, the findings proved that there are relationship and interactions between the factors. It is expected that the findings from this research may contribute to identify the most effective corrective actions that can be exploited to decrease the number of construction accidents in Malaysia.

title: Proactive System for Real Time Safety Management In Construction Site
abstract: The purpose of this paper is presenting a new advanced hardware/software system, boasting two main features: first it performs real time tracking of workers" routes in construction sites; then it implements an algorithm for preventing workers to be involved in hazardous situations.

title: A new work safety management system in construction sites
abstract: The hazards on the list are assessed on two levels, namely as minor and serious, and the risk relating to work at the site at three levels: small, average and high, within the range from 1 to 10, where 1 is the lowest value meaning a small risk, and 10 the value meaning a high risk.