Citation

Tang N, Hu H, Xu F, Zhu F. Safety Sci. 2019; 116: 161-169.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ssci.2019.03.001

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Safety instruction, as a critical part of safety management, plays an important role on construction sites. Unified safety training and irregular inspection are the main safety instructions methods. Considering the complex construction site and low management density, safety instructions received by workers are usually not timely and precise. To improve this situation, this paper established a real-time personalized safety instruction method which considers the different characteristics of workers and complex construction environment. A user-oriented PSIM system is developed in this paper based on GPS and cloud computing. This system could facilitate the collection of the main hazards, safety instructions to these hazards, and project information using questionnaire investigation and paper document. The collected information is classified by 5W1H method and transferred to particular workers according to their different characters, including locations, duties and working time. A case study is presented, which highlight its method for recording data, processing data, and sending personalized safety instruction, in a high-speed railway project. The results demonstrate that important construction information related to both safety and activity in field operations can be automatically processed and visualized in real-time, thus offering benefits to reducing hazards, improving safety awareness of workers, and creating a safer environment for workers effectively at a reasonable cost.

Language: en

Keywords

Construction safety; Construction workers; Management information system; Personalized safety instruction; Real-time location