Developing a Mobile Application for Safety Engineers for Hazard Analysis

Abstract

Hazards can be defined as any source of potential damage/harm and they have a high probability of happening in our daily life and workplaces. Hazards are the main reason behind occupational accidents and occupational health and safety problems. Hazard analysis techniques are methods that reduce or monitor hazards in our daily life and workplaces. In general, workplace environments have different types of hazard such as ergonomic, physical, biological, chemical, and others. Hazard analysis requires a process of observation, data collection and writing a report to identify and analyze hazards. The occupational safety and health related hazards can be reduced through using hazard analysis techniques. Since hazard analysis requires statistical data collection and writing report while safety engineers is observing the hazards, a tool such as a mobile application will reduce the time and the paper work by converting safety engineers' observation to a report immediately. Therefore, it is important to develop mobile application that will help safety engineers to assess hazard analysis in a quick and systematic way. In this paper, steps of developing a mobile application for hazard analysis for safety engineers are explained. The process of defining features, implementing features into the mobile application, and evaluation process of the mobile application are discussed in detail.