Integrating safety culture into OSH risk mitigation via information technologies

Dong Zhao; Yingbin Feng; Yincheng Ye; Min Jae Suh

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40078-0_29

Integrating safety culture into OSH risk mitigation via information technologies

Dong Zhao
, Yingbin Feng
, Yincheng Ye
, Min Jae Suh

School of Engineering, Design & Built Environment

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	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
Publisher	Springer
Pages	335-344
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9783642400773
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40078-0_29
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management - Duration: 7 Nov 2013 → …

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ISSN (Print)	1876-1100

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Conference	International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management
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SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

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Zhao, D., Feng, Y., Ye, Y., & Suh, M. J. (2014). Integrating safety culture into OSH risk mitigation via information technologies. In 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 (pp. 335-344). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40078-0_29

Zhao, Dong ; Feng, Yingbin ; Ye, Yincheng et al. / Integrating safety culture into OSH risk mitigation via information technologies. 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. Springer, 2014. pp. 335-344

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Integrating safety culture into OSH risk mitigation via information technologies. / Zhao, Dong; Feng, Yingbin; Ye, Yincheng et al.
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. Springer, 2014. p. 335-344.

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Zhao D, Feng Y, Ye Y, Suh MJ. Integrating safety culture into OSH risk mitigation via information technologies. In 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. Springer. 2014. p. 335-344 doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-40078-0_29

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