Abstract
The construction industry continues to record a high number of accidents compared to other industries. Furthermore, the ramifications of construction accidents are growing in terms of both economic loss and loss of life with trends toward larger-scale, more complex projects. For this reason, there is an increasing awareness of the importance of safety management in the construction industry, and the need for more effective safety management techniques. This paper introduces a real-time location-based construction labor safety management system that tracks and visualizes workers’ locations in real-time and sends early warnings to endangered workers. The system is developed by integrating: a real-time locating system (RTLS) for tracking of workers’ location; a location monitoring system for mapping the workers location on a computerized building model; and alarm technology for sending early warnings. The developed system has been applied to an apartment project and an RTLS technology test center in Korea, and proved to be effective in tracking and monitoring workers in real-time and preventing construction accidents. It is envisioned that the developed system will enable proactive construction safety management in South Korea and the methodologies developed in this study will be applicable to other contexts with minimal customization.
Highlights
The construction industry continues to record a high incidence of accidents compared to other industries
Motivated by these research efforts, this paper aims to develop a construction safety management system by which rigor around monitoring of direct accident causes can be improved, tracking and visualizing workers’ location in a real-time and proactive manner
According to Heinrich (1959), the causes of an accident can be classified into indirect accident causes and direct causes of accidents
Summary
The construction industry continues to record a high incidence of accidents compared to other industries. Lee et al (2012) developed radio frequency identification (RFID)-based real-time locating system (RTLS) for construction safety management. RFID, is limited for portal based identification purposes: the need for a more advanced type of RFID has arisen (Song et al 2006) To address this need, there have been numerous research efforts for the advanced real-time locating system (RTLS) for diverse purposes in construction (e.g. safety management, productivity improvement and material tracking) (Fosbroke 2004; Teizer, CastroLacouture 2007; Wu et al 2010; Chae, Yoshida 2010; Cheng, Teizer 2010). The dangerous zone is set by the construction safety manager and the alarm for the potential accident types in a given zone is sent to the worker in real-time manner.
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