Risk factors and emerging technologies for preventing falls from heights at construction sites

M Khan, C Nnaji, MS Khan, A Ibrahim, D Lee… - Automation in …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Falls at construction sites account for approximately 50% of all accidents reported in the US
annually, making them the leading cause of injuries and fatalities. Although there have been …

A Review on Construction Safety: Hazards, Mitigation Strategies, and Impacted Sectors

D Almaskati, S Kermanshachi, A Pamidimukkala… - Buildings, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
Hazard identification is a fundamental step in safety management that has the potential to
reduce the number and severity of occupational injuries on construction sites. Researchers …

Automatic identification of causal factors from fall-related accident investigation reports using machine learning and ensemble learning approaches

H Qi, Z Zhou, J Irizarry, D Lin, H Zhang… - Journal of Management …, 2024‏ - ascelibrary.org
To enhance the performance of learning from past fall-related accidents, this study
developed an innovative framework for automatically extracting every individual causal …

Assessing of causes of accidents based on a novel integrated interval-valued Fermatean fuzzy methodology: towards a sustainable construction site

MB Bouraima, A Gore, E Ayyildiz, S Yalcin… - Neural computing and …, 2023‏ - Springer
The statistics pertaining to accidents occurring at construction sites underscore the pressing
requirement for a substantial and timely reevaluation of safety measures within the …

Data mining of the essential causes of different types of fatal construction accidents

AD Rafindadi, N Shafiq, I Othman, A Ibrahim, MM Aliyu… - Heliyon, 2023‏ - cell.com
Accident analysis is used to discover the causes of workplace injuries and devise methods
for preventing them in the future. There has been little discussion in the previous studies of …

Preventing falls from floor openings using quadrilateral detection and construction worker pose-estimation

M Park, AS Kulinan, J Bak, S Park - Automation in Construction, 2024‏ - Elsevier
This paper addressed safety risks in the construction industry, emphasizing the prevalent
and fatal risk of falls from heights due to floor openings. Although advancements in computer …

[HTML][HTML] Women career in construction industry after industrial revolution 4.0 norm

M Al Salaheen, WS Alaloul, MA Musarat… - Journal of Open …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The advancement of women's careers in construction following the Industrial Revolution (IR)
4.0 is a significant concern. This study aims to investigate the primary factors and barriers …

A hybrid STAMP-fuzzy DEMATEL-ISM approach for analyzing the factors influencing building collapse accidents in China

X Chen, W Qiao - Scientific reports, 2023‏ - nature.com
To explore the factors influencing recent construction collapse accidents, this study utilizes a
sample of 355 reports on building collapse accidents from 2012 to 2022. The investigation …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of COVID-19 on safety practices in construction projects

AS Almohassen, MS Alkhaldi, ME Shaawat - Ain Shams engineering …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic was recognized as a worldwide epidemic
and classed as a high risk in early 2020, affecting people's health, economies, and business …

Human reliability assessment on building construction work at height: The case of scaffolding work

X Li, Y Guo, F Ge, F Yang - Safety science, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The hybrid approach of CREAM (cognitive reliability and error analysis method), fuzzy
theory and Bayesian network (BN) was constructed to analyze the reliability of scaffolding …