Work Site Research Articles

Evaluating road work site safety management: A case study of the Amman bus rapid transit project construction

Evaluating road work site safety management: A case study of the Amman bus rapid transit project construction

Evaluation of Mobile Risk Perception Training System for Improving the Safety Awareness of Construction Workers

Toolbox Meeting (TBM) activities conducted before work at construction sites are representative activities with characteristics such as work sharing and improving safety awareness. However, there is a limitation to the conventional TBM approach as it proceeds only formally and is not systematic because it proceeds without the manager’s prior preparation. Therefore, in this study, TBM was conducted using a mobile app by supplementing the limitation of conventional TBMs, and we examined whether mobile TBM is more effective in improving the safety awareness of construction site workers. A survey of 400 people was conducted at two sites implementing existing TBM or mobile TBM. This study included survey development, survey target selection, and statistical analysis. The analysis revealed three main results. First, mobile TBM was more efficient. Second, workers at mobile TBM application sites (M = 4.24) were more positive and satisfied with daily safety activities than those using existing TBMs (M = 3.95). Finally, the impact of TBM education and worker safety awareness was higher in sites using mobile TBM (M = 4.14) than those using existing TBM (M = 3.94). This study provides valuable evidence for construction site safety management decision-makers considering the adoption of smart safety management tools such as mobile TBMs.

Large Triaxial tests on Marginal soil admixed with Randomly Distributed with coir fiber and fly ash

The Due to a lack of suitable granular soils, it has become necessary for various construction types to use marginal soils (soils of lower strength) at various work sites. Typically, soil with higher percentages of silt and clay (finer particles) exhibits unfavourable engineering characteristics, making it unsuitable for a variety of construction-related operations. These soils are typically possessing plasticity in nature and have low strength, especially when it comes to shear strength. Common approaches like admixture stabilisation are being implemented to enhance the strength characteristics of these soils. The quality of these marginal soils to make them amenable for construction is also being improved by the chemical additives. By adopting such procedures that involve chemical admixing for the process of modifying marginal soils, the cost of construction process rises. In this work, an effort was undertaken with regard to examine the efficacy of modifying marginal soil admixing with cement/lime and with dispersed randomly with coir fibre as reinforcing material. Additionally, shear testing was carried out by admixing fly ash. The objective of the present work is to investigate the shear strength characteristics modified marginal soil and could be affected by the reinforcement of coir fibres. Using the proposed marginal soil, a number of significant triaxial laboratory works were carried out. The experimental study is intended to provide a workable answer for increasing the shear strength of marginal soil. It was observed that the shear strength of marginal soil modified/admixed with ordinary Portland cement and reinforced with random distribution of 2 percent coir fibre and admixed with 10 percent fly ash was roughly one and half to two times that of plain marginal soil.

산업재해 예방을 위한 근로자 의무와 역할의 개선방안 연구

Workers play an important role in recognizing and preventing risks at work sites. However, the current Occupational Safety and Health Act does not provide rights and obligations commensurate with the worker's role as an industrial accident prevention agent. The study analyzed the regulations on workers' industrial accident prevention roles and obligations in major countries and presented the following implications to improve workers' duties and roles as subjects of industrial accident prevention.
 First, the obligations of workers are specified: ① the duty to pay attention to the safety and health of others affected by their work performance (duty of care), ② the duty to work in accordance with training and instructions on safe work provided by the employer (obligation to comply), ③ reflects the obligation to report immediately upon discovery of an imminent risk of industrial accident (reporting obligation), ④ obligation to cooperate to identify the risks of the workplace and to select appropriate measures(duty of cooperation). Second, by limiting the scope of workers' obligations, it prevents comprehensive obligations from being imposed or the employer's obligations from being passed on to the employees. Third, there should be punishment provisions for workers' violation of their obligations, but punishment should be given for intentional and obvious violations, and the worker's violation of the law should not be interpreted as a reason to defend the employer's violation of the law. Fourth, judicial liability, such as disciplinary action and compensation for damages resulting from a violation of an employee's obligations, is limited to an appropriate scope considering the characteristics of the employment contract. Fifth, give workers the right to improve safety and health (right to participate, right to suggest, right to request improvement, right to report, etc.) and promote active activities.
 I‘m expecting that by using the research results, future workers' participation in workplace safety and health improvement and industrial accident prevention activities will be promoted, and self-discipline based on the responsibility of industrial accident prevention subjects will be quickly established.

Applications of artificial intelligence recognition technology on construction industry

In the construction industry, technology-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become the center of development. AI image recognition technology has been developed and applied to face various application scenarios on the construction site and help workers increase their efficiency and accuracy in recognized work. The purpose of this paper is to introduce two mature AI technologies: the reinforcement quantity identification system and the intelligent identification and evaluation method of typical damages to a fair-faced wall. The reinforcement quantity identification system uses the method to train a model on the Yolo v3 algorithm. It is able to help workers use an image taken to get the number of bars to be counted. The intelligent identification and evaluation method to a fair-faced wall is designed to focus on the three typical damages, weathering, efflorescence, and plant coverage. In the design model, the used algorithm is Yolo v4, and OpenCV is applied as a vision library to access the degree of damages. Workers only need to upload an image to the system, and then it will return an analysis result for the wall. Through this paper, readers will understand their main algorithms and models based on AI technology, as well as their practical applications in the construction industry, and provide a theoretical introduction for future AI image technology references.

Prevalence of Occupational Injuries of the Oral and Maxillofacial Region and Their Covariates Among Building Construction Workers in Chennai.

Background and aim With many risky environmental conditions, civil construction sites are prone to physical injuries, especially those pertaining to the oral and maxillofacial regions. The current study was an effort to assess the magnitude and pattern of such oral and maxillofacial injuries and the factors associated with them. Methodology This descriptive study was carried out on 524 construction workers, of whom 254 met the inclusion criteria related to work site injuries. An interviewer-administered proforma with basic demographic details is used in conjunction with an intraoral examination to classify the dental injury. Descriptive statistics were done to evaluate the frequency of injury occurrence, while inferential statistics, including the chi-square test and regression analysis, were done to evaluate the association between injury and the variable under concern. Result The study includes a total of 254 participants, with ages ranging from 20 to above 50 years, of whom 230 (91%) were males and 24 (9.4%) were females. The majority, 200 (78.7%), were unskilled laborers, and 195 (76.7%) were migrant workers with language barriers. It was found that 95 (76.7%) had a history of dental injury alone, while 59 (23.2%) had a history of oral maxillofacial injury. Among the reasons for injury, the increased odds ratios (OD) were noted in the collapse of the surrounding area as 0.050 (0.029-0.075), rainy season 1.001 (0.891-1.281), unskilled labor 1.020 (0.910-1.30), and migrants 1.010 (0.901-1.200). The OD for males is 2.052 (1.941-2.101). Conclusion The current study confirms that the magnitude of workplace-related injuries is significant, and the majority of them stem from basic language barriers among migrant workers and a lack of knowledge to adhere to safety protocols and instructions given.

Anxiety, Stress and Depression as the Notorious Barriers to Achieving a Massive Performance among Egyptian Construction Site Workers

In today's corporate landscape, optimizing performance has emerged as a formidable challenge for organizations, often hindered by formidable barriers and psychological factors. This study explores the role of anxiety, stress, and depression in attaining performance among Egyptian construction site workers. The quantitative analysis utilizes cross-sectional data collected from workers working at different construction sites in Egypt. The study concludes with findings from 298 valid cases. Leveraging the structural equation model (SEM) in a path analysis, the results unveil a stark negative impact of anxiety (p-value = 0.199), stress (p-value = 0.115), and depression (p-value = 0.209) on overall performance. Furthermore, it underscores the noteworthy predictive power of anxiety (p-value = 0.000) and stress (p-value = 0.000) on depression. These findings carry implications for both policy-makers and psychologists, offering valuable guidance for the formulation of strategies aimed at reducing anxiety, stress, and depression to catalyze enhanced performance. Besides, this study contributes a meaningful empirical perspective to the broader psychological and medical literature drawn from the unique context of construction site workers in a developing nation.

Factors That Influence Job Stress among Foreign Construction Site Workers in Malaysia

This study’s goal is to address factors that cause major stress scenarios and identify the factors that cause such a dilemma among foreign workers. These issues stem from three different variables that contribute to stress, which include job characteristics (job demand, job control and job support) workload and reward. To affirm and verify the said variables, a quantitative research approach is implemented based on participants from the construction site. The sampling frame was for foreign workers from different levels and positions in a selected construction site in Klang Valley. This study was based on 100 samples of foreign workers selected using the snowballing method. Results indicate a significant relationship between job factors (job demand, job control and job support) on the job stress of foreign workers at the construction site. Results also show a significant relationship between workload and job stress and no relationship was found between reward and job stress. This study discussed the results from the psychological, and human resource perspectives, as well as their implications for human resource management. The findings can be used to guide the progress of policies and programs that can navigate the negative effects of employees’ stress. The present study was done to further combine and explore whether the main initial factors influencing stress in Malaysia are still applicable in the context of foreign workers in the construction industry. Up until now, there has been only scarce research on the combination of the discussed factors on stress.

Aplikasi Visualisasi Pembangunan Jalan Baru Menggunakan Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality Technology that combines the real world with the virtual world, is interactive in real time, and is in the form of 3D animation. The Markerless Augmented Reality method is also called the markerless method, with this method the user no longer needs to use a marker to display digital elements. Currently, the construction of a road still uses a lot of rough drawings or designs using paper prints. The problem faced by workers is that drawings for making new roads use design drawings in 2D which are printed on paper, paper is prone to damage if it is always taken to the work site, such as being exposed to water, dust and folding which could damage the image on the printed paper. The research that will be carried out uses Augmented Reality technology which can provide information in the form of 3D road pavement images as well as information about the layers that make up the road pavement.

Multimedia Transfer Over Wi-Fi Direct Based on Fuzzy Clustering for Vehicular Communications

Introduction: Wi-Fi Direct technology enables users to share services in groups, and support Service discovery at the data link layer before creating a P2P Group, and it can be used as a collaborative application integrated into vehicles for multimedia transfer and group configuration between V2X. Compared to cellular networks, Wi-Fi Direct offers a high transmission data rate at a cheaper cost. However, there are numerous hurdles to using Wi-Fi Direct in vehicles, including the fact that Wi-Fi Direct communication has a relatively small coverage area, disconnection may occur multiple times, and the distance between vehicles changes often in a moving setting, which negatively affects the quality of service delivery. Previous studies disregarded the motion and direction of moving objects. Methods: The main contribution of this paper is to use Wi-Fi Direct among vehicles to reduce reliance on the 5G network, thereby addressing the previous challenges. In particular, the main contribution of this paper is to introduce a set of scenarios based on different speeds, directions, and distances between vehicles. The state of the packets is monitored in each scenario to compute the packets delay and loss. We present a new contribution to the services discovery by providing V2V IE with a set of services that reflect the user's interest, such as Web pages, SMS, Audio links, and Video links, using the Generic Advertisement Protocol GAS, and a comparison between the traditional P2P IE and the new V2V IE. Furthermore, the paper introduces a stable Wi-Fi Direct Fuzzy C-Means FCM clustering method based on important parameters impacting the group formation, such as the location, the destination, the direction, the speed of the vehicle, and the user’s Interests List. Results: Based on the results of the FCM, there is still uncertainty in choosing the appropriate time to provide the services to the vehicles. We propose a Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Handover T2FLH system to solve the problem of handling uncertainty about dealing with the available services. Using the simulation on OMNeT++, the proposed scenarios with the fuzzy c-means FCM clustering method are compared to get the best clusters. Then the results were compared with the Type-2 Fuzzy T2FLH system to extract the best scenarios. Conclusion: We concluded from the results of previous experiments that Wi-Fi Direct can be used with vehicles at low speeds and high speeds. In the case of low speeds, it works efficiently depending on OMNET++ results. Therefore, Wi-Fi Direct can be used in vehicle stations and work sites that use limited-speed vehicles such as Clarks machines to alert safety and provide them with information about the devices around them. Bearing in mind that the speed of devices is limited in work areas. In the case of high speeds, the results are significantly improved using the proposed Type-2 fuzzy Logic Handover T2FLH system to model uncertainty and imprecision in a better way. Relying on T2FLH has led to a decrease in the rate of Packets Loss and Delay because the selection of the available services with previously specified time in the neighboring table became more accurate and avoiding uncertainty, depending on calculating the size of the data and the WFD signal strength conjunction with the distance and speed between the vehicles.

Goal setting as part of a holistic intervention to promote independence in older people with mild frailty: a process evaluation alongside a randomised controlled trial

BackgroundFrailty is a condition resulting from a decline in physiological reserves caused by an accumulation of several deficits, which progressively impairs the ability to recover from health adverse events. Following a promising feasibility study, the HomeHealth trial assessed a holistic tailored intervention for older adults with mild frailty to promote independence in their own homes, compared with usual care. We aimed to understand how goal setting worked among older people with mild frailty. MethodsThis study was a process evaluation alongside the HomeHealth randomised trial in older adults with mild frailty. The intervention was delivered at participants’ homes, either in person or by telephone or videoconferencing. We carried out semi-structured interviews with older participants who had received the intervention (between three and six appointments), on average 233 days (range 68–465) after their last appointment, purposively sampled according to age, gender, number of sessions attended, adverse events, ethnicity, Index of Multiple Deprivation, Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and Barthel scores, research site, and HomeHealth worker. We also conducted interviews with HomeHealth workers who delivered the intervention (n=7). Interviews explored the experience and process of goal setting, benefits and challenges, perceived progress, and behaviour change maintenance after the service had finished. Ethics approval was obtained, and all participants gave informed consent. Interviews were thematically analysed. HomeHealth workers kept formal records of goals set and assessed progress towards goals (0–2 rating scale) during six monthly-sessions, which were descriptively summarised. Findings56 interviews were completed between July 15, 2022, and May 18, 2023. Study participants (n=49) had a mean age of 80 years (range 66–94), including 32 (65%) women and 17 (35%) men. Participants self-identified as White (n=42), Asian (n=3), Black (n=2), Mixed (n=1), and other ethnic (n=1) backgrounds. Findings suggested goal setting could be both a challenge and a motivator for older participants with mild frailty. Goal setting worked well when the older person could identify a clear need and set realistic goals linked to functioning, which led to a positive sense of achievement. Challenges occurred when older people were already accessing multiple resources and health services, or where the terminology of “goals” was off-putting due to work or school connotations. Average progress towards goals was 1·15/2. Most participants set goals around improving mobility (or a combination of mobility and another goal type such as socialising), and there was evidence of participants sustaining these behaviour changes after the intervention. InterpretationOlder people with mild frailty can engage well with goal setting to promote independence. The lapse between receiving the intervention and being interviewed limited recall for some participants. However, the acceptability and adherence to the intervention for older people with mild frailty, and their moderate progress towards goals, should encourage further tailored and person-centred practices to promote their independence. FundingNational Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment.

The Effectiveness of Lean Production Principles in Reducing Waste in Productive Institutions: An Analytical Exploratory Study in The Central Refineries Company (Al-Dora Refinery)

This research aims to identify the effectiveness of the principles of lean production in reducing waste in (the Central Refineries Company / Al-Dora Refinery). The data was collected using a questionnaire form. The form was responded to by 60 employees from among those who were invited to participate, as the questionnaire included Measuring the main variables of lean production and waste, and relying on the (Spss.V.24)program in statistical analysis. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used in this analysis, such as arithmetic means and standard deviations, and testing the effect of these variables. The results of this research have shown that the dimension of organizing the work site, S5, is relatively weak compared to the rest of the dimensions of the variable, the pillars of lean production, and it needs to be re-attentioned by senior management more seriously in order to obtain the most important advantages of this pillar, which is reducing waste. There is also a significant relationship that confirms the impact of Lean production and waste in production institutions

Far but close: how leaders can strengthen social identification with virtual teams

ABSTRACT As modern work is increasingly characterised by virtual collaboration, leaders have to coordinate teams across multiple work sites. One way to align dispersed team members towards collective goals is to strengthen their identification with the team. However, little is known about how to strengthen identification in virtual teams that do not share a physical environment. We conducted interviews based on the critical incident technique with 26 virtual leaders and 20 virtual team members. Qualitative content analysis revealed six categories of leader behaviour: 1) define the team, 2) strengthen team interdependence, 3) emphasise the team as a whole, 4) empower the team, 5) recognise team effort, and 6) stimulate informal team exchange. By mapping previous research and our findings onto a tridimensional model of social identification, we highlight both, behaviour similar to face-to-face leader behaviour and behaviour unique to the virtual context, and provide concrete behaviours for leadership practice and intervention studies.

Features and Sustainable Design of Firefighting Safety Footwear for Fire Extinguishing and Rescue Operations

Firefighters are regularly exposed to risk of injuries as a result of their intervention activities connected with hazards from fire and explosion, as well as due to carrying heavy personal working equipment and injured victims from accidents. Another hazardous factor is working under unfavorable weather conditions and also moving on slippery or bumpy surfaces. Employers provide personal protective work equipment to employees if a hazard cannot be eliminated or reduced by technical means, such as means of collective protection or methods and forms of work organization. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) should provide effective protection against existing and foreseeable hazards and should not in itself create a greater risk. It should be adapted to the existing and predictable working conditions and working environment at the work site, meet the criteria of ergonomics and the health condition of an employee as well as be suitable and adapted to the wearer’s body so that, if possible, there is no risk of harm to the employee’s health. The aim of this Special Issue is to explore the limits of sustainable implementation of additive technologies within current manufacturing practices and current requirements for personal protective equipment for firefighters. More precisely, the goal of this special article is to show new ideas in firefighting footwear such as a quick donning and doffing system as well as various other improvements and sustainable design of firefighting footwear. The aim is to present new ideas and concepts, the latest advances, and technical tools supporting the sustainable use of protective firefighting footwear. Special attention will be paid to standards that ensure the highest standard and quality.

EMERGING AND RE-EMERGING BACTERIAL ZOONOSES SCREENING OF HIGH RISK GROUPS FOR LEPTOSPIRAL SEROVARS

Objective: To collect information related to leptospirosis among high-risk groups: agricultural workers, butchers, construction workers, and hospital sanitary workers through questionnaires and to determine the presence of leptospires among these high-risk groups (both genus and serovarspecific). Methods: A total of 367 eligible subjects were included (112 agricultural workers, 108 construction site workers, 89 sanitary workers, and 58 butchers). Results: The genus-specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was performed for all the serum samples (n=367) and showed reactiveness among 149 subjects. The results were compared with the serovar-specific microscopic agglutination test, which showed positivity in 158 subjects. Conclusion: Screening the occupational risk group for the presence of leptopsiral prints in order to provide appropriate medical check-ups and the earliest treatment. An educational program for rodent control and infection control where the seroprevalence is high should be organized.

Between Land Reclamation and Labour, Empathy and Asian New Wave Film: Fungibility in Yeo Siew Hua’s A Land Imagined 幻土

Yeo Siew Hua's film A Land Imagined (2018) is interspersed with long scenes at a work site. The camera often rests on the droning work of machines and workers carting and sorting gravel. But for all the movement that is displayed, no change has taken place. Piles of gravel are demolished and moved to make new piles. The persons in the film appear similarly fungible: an injured laborer can become a driver, a corpse may or may not explain a disappearance. Ultimately, the site is revealed to be a land reclamation site which reveals that movement of gravel is not a closed innocuous system, but is part of a zero-sum game, in which one country grows bigger by cannibalizing those around it. Using Sadiya Hartman's work on fungibility as a lens through which I consider the modern-day ‘coolie' in the film and Lisa Lowe’s writing on immigration and citizenship, I argue that Yeo allegorizes the movement of land across bodies of water for the similar movement of indentured laborers in order to critique the invisibility of foreign low-wage labor in Singapore, at the same time that the products of their labour are put on brash display. Critics like Hartman and Lowe, whose critical interests connect exchange, labor, and transnational movement across oceans and bodies of water, offer a critical framework with which we can think about how the film takes up the racial, national, and gendered intersections of these issues. Finally, in drawing from and inserting itself within an extant body of work by Asian New Wave directors, A Land Imagined ultimately enacts an imaginative and responsible form of transnational assemblage, connecting cultures and people across oceans not through labour or even soil, but through art.

Обеспечение безопасности одновременных работ на морской платформе

The purpose of the work is to analyze measures to ensure safety during the simultaneous performance of various high-risk works on the Prirazlomnaya offshore ice-resistant stationary platform. Due to the high requirements for ensuring industrial and environmental safety, almost all the works performed on the Prirazlomnaya offshore ice-resistant stationary platform are classified as high-risk works. The most dangerous periods from the point of view of the development of accidents are the periods of commissioning work on working environments during the completion of construction and the startup of facilities after repairs. During the current operation of the Prirazlomnaya offshore ice-resistant stationary platform, more than 90 work permits are issued daily for work, with more than 50 people involved in the preparation and approval of them. There are technological operations that should not be carried out simultaneously for safety reasons. To manage the safety of simultaneous works, Gazprom neft shelf LLC developed the matrix of simultaneous operations on the Prirazlomnaya offshore ice-resistant stationary platform. The matrix allows the work production manager to quickly navigate the existing restrictions, which minimizes the occurrence of errors. To automate this process, Gazprom neft shelf LLC implemented the Electronic work order — approval module. The IT solution integrates a matrix of simultaneous operations and introduces algorithms to prevent conduct of conflicting operations. When approving and issuing work permits, the system signals the presence of conflicting operations, as a result of which a prompt decision is made on the division of works in time. At the same time, the work managers do not face the situations related to downtime of a team arriving at a work site where it is prohibited to carry out work. This made it possible to optimize the work of the teams, directing them to perform other work. The implemented solution allowed to ensure controllability of high-risk works, improve the quality of work planning, and reduce the risks of conducting conflict operations by minimizing the influence of the human factor.

Total BIM on the construction site: a dynamic single source of information

Digital technologies are rapidly transforming the construction industry, offering new opportunities to improve site work performance. Traditionally, site workers take information from static construction documents such as 2D paper drawings. However, in the Nordic region, a dynamic approach known as Total BIM has gained interest. Total BIM is a model-based approach to construction where BIM replaces 2D drawings as the contractual and legally binding construction document, and site workers use production-oriented, cloud-based BIM, on mobile devices to extract construction information. By having a dynamic single source of information, site workers face new demands as they independently extract construction information directly from BIM. This paper investigates the impact of Total BIM on site work methods through four real-life case studies, site visits, workshops, seminars and semi-structured interviews. The findings indicated that Total BIM provided site workers with a more dynamic construction process where the mobile BIM-viewer software became a central communication and management platform. Key digital Total BIM features were investigated that site workers used to perform new work methods, including measuring, filtering, visualizing, communicating, checklists, and requests for information. By using Total BIM instead of static 2D drawings, site workers interacted dynamically with BIM on mobile devices, changing the process of how work was implemented on the construction site. The practical implications of these findings can be used to support the on-site implementation and strategy work of Total BIM. Furthermore, this paper contributes practical concrete examples of on-site Total BIM use and addresses issues commonly found in state-of-the-art BIM projects.

FL-IIDS: A novel federated learning-based incremental intrusion detection system

With the advantage of analyzing data of multiple work sites comprehensively while ensuring data privacy, federated learning-based intrusion detection systems (IDS) are emerging as a distributed intrusion detection paradigm. Most of these IDS are assumed to work on static data. However, in the actual network environment, the practice of setting data as static will lead to the phenomenon known as catastrophic forgetting, where old classes that have already appeared would be forgotten. In this paper, we propose a novel IDS framework called FL-IIDS to effectively address the catastrophic forgetting problem. Firstly, a new loss function is synthetically designed for local model training. With the new function, the class gradient balance loss function assigns different learning weights to data of the new and old classes so that the learning rate of the new classes would decrease and the memory of the overall old classes would be deepened. Moreover, the sample label smoothing loss function leverages the knowledge distillation method to enhance the local model memory for every specific class of old classes. Secondly, the relay client fusing sample reconstruction is employed to mitigate the spread of catastrophic forgetting globally without compromising data privacy. Extensive experimental results on the UNSW-NB15 dataset and the CICIDS2018 dataset show that our proposed framework improves the memory capability for old classes substantially without affecting the detection effectiveness of the IDS for new classes.

Leisure practices of geological explorers of Western Siberia based on the narratives of pio-neers (1950s–1960s)

In this paper, the main leisure activities of the geologists, identified by the author on the basis of collected inter-views with those involved at the initial stage of geological explorations in Tyumen Oblast during the 1950s–1960s, are presented. The organisation of the leisure activities, as well as the complex development of the social and do-mestic sphere amongst the geological prospectors, in one of the perspective regions in terms of the availability of hydrocarbons, was not amongst the priorities of the state at the dawn of the oil exploration and was a prerogative of the geological community. The trade unions of geologists, who were overseeing social matters, including leisure activities, due to low funding and a lack of adequate personnel and material-and-technical potential did not always successfully cope with the tasks set. The leveling of the shortcomings in this development was imposed on the initia-tive of the oil prospectors themselves, who were interested in improving conditions of their stay at the work sites. It is noted that the initiatives of the geologists expanded the possibilities of organized forms of leisure activities both at stationary places of residence and ’in the field’. The variability of leisure activities at the locations of geological par-ties, including residential places, was significantly higher than in the places of work ― ‘in the field’. However, even in conditions of remoteness from the centres of ‘culture’, oil prospectors carried out improvement of the quality and diversity of their leisure time on their own. The demand for and variability of the leisure practices were taking place in line with the ‘concept of culture’, depended on the degree of qualification and level of education of the specialists, personal development and attitude of the employees, and their environment. The implementation of leisure practices was necessitated by the need for compensating limited opportunities of the socio-cultural environment against the background of the dominance of the strenuous daily work, as well as the confrontation in the archaisation of the daily routine due to the prevalence of the deviant forms of behaviour. Many changes emanating from the oil prospectors and taking place in the socio-cultural sphere later took root and became an asset of the local population. The initia-tive of the geologists made it possible to expand and diversify leisure practices under the lack of opportunities and financial support of the social sphere, which facilitated positive changes in the daily life of the geologists themselves and population of the places where the oil prospectors were staying.