Abstract
Safety is one of the greatest challenges in the construction industry. Researchers proposed various safety systems to manage site safety and improve safety performance at the project level. However, these safety systems still exhibit large disconnections between the theoretical components of the systems, luck the risk prevention from specific work procedure and controlling methods. As a result, different safety teams often implement safety plans and activities in different ways, yielding different results without stability of the safety system. A safety framework that based on the construction method statement with a clear logic of safety management elements under controlling points is proposed to increase the efficiency of safety system execution at the project level to reduce the safety risks systematically. This study begins by analysing safety systems currently on the market and breaks them down to three main components: setting up the framework through systematic models, interconnecting various safety elements through safety management theories with logic, and controlling safety management data flow through an artificial neural network model, where corporate safety management frameworks are incorporated at the project level. Then the framework is further applied and tested in a semiconductor project. This framework provides an integration of safety elements, field activities and associated risks, draft the path and flow of information data generated from the safety activities and controlling points of data which enable the field safety management system to be executed with new technology of cloud based algorithm at project levels. Because each project is different based on the construction methods and sequence, the framework only covers a certain depth in the construction process based on the assumption of construction sequence presented in the study. Nevertheless, each project requires a custom design framework to accommodate the special construction method and sequence which might be different from this study to increase construction safety performance.
Highlights
The construction industry is one of the most rapidly growing industries in China
The study starts from the facts that the construction safety is under performed to conclude that the current safety management system which supports the safety performance needed to be improved (1.0)
A cloud-based safety management software was developed based on the proposed framework, in which all management teams worked on one platform to process information; the final results of key safety indicators were presented to validate the efficient functioning of the safety management system
Summary
The construction industry is one of the most rapidly growing industries in China. Its annual revenue in 2020 amounted to 26394.7 billion RMB and 26.0% of China’s GDP [1]. The Chinese government agency Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People's Republic of China (2019) issued the national standard GB 50656 “Construction Company Safety Manage. The framework outlines the objectives (4.1), environment, health, and safety (EHS) policy (4.2), plan (4.3), execution (4.4), inspection (4.5), and assessment (4.6). This framework helps the project management team at the construction site successfully execute safety management plans (5). This study will analyse these issues and provide a solution for providing a better framework that project level safety professionals can follow to increase work efficienc
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