TY - GEN
T1 - Integrating safety culture into OSH risk mitigation via information technologies
AU - Zhao, Dong
AU - Feng, Yingbin
AU - Ye, Yincheng
AU - Suh, Min Jae
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - ![CDATA[The occupational safety and health (OSH) risk management continues to be a key topic for worldwide industries, especially in the construction industry. Most of prior technologies were used to directly but passively impact safe working engineering in a technical way. However, technologies may also indirectly but actively influence workers’ safe performance in a managerial way. This research aimed to examine this severe safety problem in the construction industry, and taking which as an example, prevention measures for OSH risk mitigation are discussed. The analyses find that large portion of the OSH fatalities and injuries are related to workers’ unsafe acts and lack of awareness on the OSH hazards. The lack of effectiveness was ascribed the OSH training content as well as the one-off nature of construction industry. An innovative approach is proposed, which integrates the safety culture into the OSH risk mitigation via the application of cutting-edge information technologies. Particularly, a virtual reality-based pilot application which links the safety culture and risk mitigation is demonstrated.]]
AB - ![CDATA[The occupational safety and health (OSH) risk management continues to be a key topic for worldwide industries, especially in the construction industry. Most of prior technologies were used to directly but passively impact safe working engineering in a technical way. However, technologies may also indirectly but actively influence workers’ safe performance in a managerial way. This research aimed to examine this severe safety problem in the construction industry, and taking which as an example, prevention measures for OSH risk mitigation are discussed. The analyses find that large portion of the OSH fatalities and injuries are related to workers’ unsafe acts and lack of awareness on the OSH hazards. The lack of effectiveness was ascribed the OSH training content as well as the one-off nature of construction industry. An innovative approach is proposed, which integrates the safety culture into the OSH risk mitigation via the application of cutting-edge information technologies. Particularly, a virtual reality-based pilot application which links the safety culture and risk mitigation is demonstrated.]]
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/543050
UR - http://www.lebow.drexel.edu/event/2013/11/07/seventh-international-conference-management-science-and-engineering-management
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-40078-0_29
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-40078-0_29
M3 - Conference Paper
SN - 9783642400773
SP - 335
EP - 344
BT - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM 2013): Focused on Electrical and Information Technology: 7-9 November 2013, Drexel University, Pennsylvania
PB - Springer
T2 - International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management
Y2 - 7 November 2013
ER -