Technology role in safety management of Iraqi construction projects

Yousif Saeed,Leonid Zelentsov,Esam Aziz,P Akimov,A Doroshenko,N Vatin,A Tusnin

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202126304043

Abstract

Iraqi construction industry is not away from high number of injuries and fatalities, to control this problem, Mobile Application Technologies (MATS), might offer a promising solution. Improved risk management will increase the productivity of the construction companies which might resulted in enhancing Iraqi national economy. This research addressed the most current used MATS in managing OSH in the construction projects, and highlighted the most benefits and limitations of using these technologies in the field of Iraqi construction projects. This aim achieved by conducting a comprehensive study of the related literature, by analysing a questionnaire response of 98 construction project managers, who are working in a small and medium sized company, BIM and WSDS were identified as the most current used MATS in the Iraqi construction projects, But with a low rate of occurrence about 25%. ’Eliminate hazard during the design phase’ and ’Help visualize hazard’ are the most two benefits of MATS with a rate of occurrence about 75%. However, ’Extra costs associated with technology’, ’Little or no government regulations for use’ are the most two limited factors of using MATS in OSH management in the Iraqi construction projects. In this research the suggestion for the future research has introduced.

Highlights

National incomes increased by manufacturing high performance constructions and vice versa
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is being used by the 25.51% of the participants in the current time and followed by Wearable Sensing Devices (WSDs) with a rate of almost 23.47%, While Mobile Devices Onsite (MDO), Laser Scanning and LiDAR (LSL), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Digital Signage (DS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Camera Network Systems (CNS), are (18.37, 16.33, 16.33, 13.27, 11.22, 11.22) % respectively, both AL and CNS devices are being used by about 11.22 % of the respondents, and both of Virtual Reality (VR) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are being used by 10.2%
In this paper benefits and limitation of mobile application technologies utilized in OHS management, has been recognized, to present the importance the benefits and limitations of mobile technologies to stakeholders and the project managers to encourage future adoption of this new method in OSH management

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Introduction

National incomes increased by manufacturing high performance constructions and vice versa. Public economic might be enhanced due to the improvement of construction industry, because of its key contributing of the national income and the global economy. Improved OSH management in the construction projects contribute effectively in enhancing production in the field of construction industry and this could enhance national economy. Every year thousands of construction workers injured and murdered all around the world, for example [1] reported about 970 site-work associated fatalities in the United States of America only in 2017. 10 workers killed per 100,000 full-time employees of construction projects in developed countries such as the US and Canada. Fatalities number in developing countries all around the world are even more than 3 to 4 times, due to work-related fatal accident as declared by International Labour of Organization (ILO) [2]

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