Abstracts – Browse Results

Search or browse again.

Click on the titles below to expand the information about each abstract.
Viewing 7 results ...

Hallowell, M R, Hardison, D and Desvignes, M (2016) Information technology and safety: Integrating empirical safety risk data with building information modeling, sensing, and visualization technologies. Construction Innovation, 16(03), 323-47.

Holt, G D (2016) Opposing influences on construction plant and machinery health and safety innovations. Construction Innovation, 16(03), 390-414.

Karimi, H, Taylor, T R B, Goodrum, P M and Srinivasan, C (2016) Quantitative analysis of the impact of craft worker availability on construction project safety performance. Construction Innovation, 16(03), 307-22.

Lee, W and Migliaccio, G C (2016) Physiological cost of concrete construction activities. Construction Innovation, 16(03), 281-306.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: biosensing and environmental sensing,occupational safety and health,physiological cost,threshold limit value,work physiology
  • ISBN/ISSN:
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1108/CI-10-2015-0051
  • Abstract:
    Purpose The purpose of this paper was to investigate the physiological cost of concrete construction activities. Design/methodology/approach Five concrete construction workers were recruited. The workers’ three-week heart rate (HR) data were collected in summer and autumn. In this paper, several HR indexes were used to investigate the physiological cost of work in concrete construction trades, including average working HR, relative HR and ratio of working HR to resting HR. Findings This paper measures how absolute and relative HRs vary throughout a workday and how working HR compares to resting HR for individual workers. Research limitations/implications Field observations are usually extremely difficult as researchers need to overcome a number of barriers, including employers’ resistance to perceived additional liabilities, employees’ fear that their level of activity will be reported to managers and many other practical and technical difficulties. As these challenges increase exponentially with the number of employers, subjects and sites, this study was limited to a small number of subjects all working for the same employer on the same jobsite. Still, challenges are often unpredictable and lessons learned from this study are expected to guide both our and other researchers’ continuation of this work. Originality/value The time effect on the physiological cost of work has not been considered in previous studies. Thus, this study is noteworthy owing to the depth of the data collected rather than the breadth of the data.

Liu, M, Han, S and Lee, S (2016) Tracking-based 3D human skeleton extraction from stereo video camera toward an on-site safety and ergonomic analysis. Construction Innovation, 16(03), 348-67.

Siddula, M, Dai, F, Ye, Y and Fan, J (2016) Classifying construction site photos for roof detection: A machine-learning method towards automated measurement of safety performance on roof sites. Construction Innovation, 16(03), 368-89.

Teizer, J (2016) Right-time vs real-time pro-active construction safety and health system architecture. Construction Innovation, 16(03), 253-80.