Impact of Training Methods on Hazard Recognition and Risk Perception in Construction

Zuluaga, Carlos M.; Namian, Mostafa; Albert, Alex

doi:10.1061/9780784479827.285

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“…According to [58], effective training increases workers' knowledge of safety. Moreover, it was further implied that effective training practices and training transfer elements should be adopted together to maximize risk perception and hazard recognition [41,42]. Demirkesen and Arditi (2015) [3] underlined that necessary attention must be given to the effectiveness of learning in training sessions to improve construction site safety.…”

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“…For example, Sollis-Carcadio and Franco-Poot (2014) [40] found that workers who had limited safety training and developed a poor safety culture are more vulnerable to being involved in accidents. Moreover, workers who had proper safety training are more likely to identify hazards and develop a safety risk perception [41,42]. Tam and Fung (2012) [43] determined that compulsory training raises construction workers' interest in safety.…”

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Critical Success Factors for Safety Training in the Construction Industry

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Construction is a hazardous industry. The project-based nature and fragmentation in the industry lead to change and uncertainty requiring special expertise. To handle those, construction firms must develop strategies and action plans along with the experience gained from lessons learned. Among the risks, safety risks are of critical importance leading to accidents. Hence, firms need to strengthen their safety programs, review their strategies for safety management, and develop effective safety training sessions to protect their workers. This study focuses on the success factors promoting safety performance. In this respect, a questionnaire was designed and administered to the Engineering News-Record (ENR) 2020 Top 400 Contractors. The questionnaire data was utilized in conducting a factor analysis to group and name the factors considering the total variance. The analysis of the factors resulted in six-factor groups; namely, project and firm-related factors, demographic factors, practical factors, motivational factors, organizational factors, and human-related factors. Project and firm-related factors were found to be the most essential factor group in terms of promoting the effectiveness of safety training. The results of this study are expected to guide industry practitioners in terms of reviewing and revising their safety training programs.

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“…Hazard identification is the ability to identify unsafe conditions and such scenarios should be dealt with in a proactive manner by management [39]. Zuluaga et al [40] noted that "workers cannot judge how severe and probable risky situations are when the hazards themselves have not been identified in the first place." Despite hazard identification's noted importance for overall job site safety, Albert et al [1] claimed that there is a dearth of strategies to properly train workers in hazard identification.…”

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“…The most immersive hardware options are HMD and CAVE [19]. Immersive training is an answer to issues voiced regarding the effectiveness of safety education in the industry described by Wilkins [2] and Zuluaga et al [40], meaning HMD and CAVE hardware is advantageous. Table 6 lists the hardware categories with the corresponding number of publications.…”

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A Review of Virtual and Mixed Reality Applications in Construction Safety Literature

Moore¹,

Gheisari

2019

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Over the last decade, researchers have used virtual-and mixed-reality (VR-MR) techniques for various safety-related applications such as training, hazard monitoring, and preconstruction planning. This paper reviews the recent trends in virtual-and mixed-reality applications in construction safety, explicitly focusing on virtual-reality and mixed-reality techniques as the two major types of computer-generated simulated experiences. Following a systematic literature assessment methodology, this study summarizes the results of articles that have been published over the last decade and illustrates the research trends of virtual-and mixed-reality applications in construction safety while focusing on the technological components of individual studies.Safety 2019, 5, 51 2 of 16 high refresh rates, accurate point-of-view tracking; these benefits are possible at lower costs than in the past, mainly because VR-MR systems are gaining traction in the mainstream gaming community [9]. Investment in VR-MR technology is increasing, and the VR-MR market is projected to increase from $2.67 billion in 2015 to $66.68 billion by 2022 [10].This study analyses the current trends in virtual-and mixed-reality applications in construction safety, particularly focusing on virtual-reality and mixed-reality platforms as the two major types of computer-generated simulated experiences. This study also focuses on the technological components of those VR-MR studies and discusses individual examples of research projects that implemented such technologies for construction safety application. A few scholars have published review articles of digital visualization techniques for safety applications. Zhou et al. [11] conducted a review of advanced technology for safety. Bhoir and Esmaeili [12] explored VR environments for safety; Guo et al. [13] looked at visualization technologies for safety. Li et al. [14] reviewed virtual and augmented reality systems for safety. Unlike other reviews, this study asks specific research questions through a systematic review technique and individually discusses the papers within the context of different safety applications, as well as their technological components. Moreover, by intentionally limiting the scope of the review to VR and MR, this study can highlight interactive safety interventions with detailed summaries of application areas, while separating VR and MR from the larger, general field of BIM (Building Information Modeling), 4D CAD (Computer-Aided Design), and other visualization technologies. The significance of this research lies in that it presents the application status of VR and MR in enhancing safety in the construction domain and brings more attention to these promising technologies and ultimately improves safety in the construction domain. The expected outcome of this content-analysis-based review can benefit both industry professional and researchers who find it necessary to design and develop an efficient application employing VR/MR technologies to enhance safety processes in the construction ...

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“…Second, deficiencies specific to the design of traditional safety training methods have been identified in previous studies. Low levels of engagement in safety training (lectures, videos, or demonstrations) have been proven to provide minimal efficiency in conveying safety-related knowledge, including hazard-identification skills [ 11 , 17 , 18 ]. Third, current safety-assessment techniques can contribute to poor safety performance in construction projects, a reality resulting from the challenge of translating an assessment’s static in-text descriptions of complex safety problems (i.e., construction process, location and site environment) to knowledge about dynamic real-life situations [ 19 ].…”

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PARS: Using Augmented 360-Degree Panoramas of Reality for Construction Safety Training

Eiris

Gheisari

Esmaeili

2018

IJERPH

114

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Improving the hazard-identification skills of construction workers is a vital step towards preventing accidents in the increasingly complex working conditions of construction jobsites. Training the construction workforce to recognize hazards therefore plays a central role in preparing workers to actively understand safety-related risks and make assertive safety decisions. Considering the inadequacies of traditional safety-training methods (e.g., passive lectures, videos, demonstrations), researchers have employed advanced visualization techniques such as virtual reality technologies to enable users to actively improve their hazard-identification skills in a safe and controlled environment. However, current virtual reality techniques sacrifice realism and demand high computational costs to reproduce real environments. Augmented 360-degree panoramas of reality offers an innovative alternative that creates low-cost, simple-to-capture, true-to-reality representations of the actual construction jobsite within which trainees may practice identifying hazards. This proof-of-concept study developed and evaluated a platform using augmented 360-degree panoramas of reality (PARS) for safety-training applications to enhance trainees’ hazard-identification skills for four types of sample hazards. Thirty subjects participated in a usability test that evaluated the PARS training platform and its augmented 360-degree images captured from real construction jobsites. The usability reviews demonstrate that the trainees found the platform and augmentations advantageously to learning hazard identification. The results of this study will foreseeably help researchers in developing engaging training platforms to improve the hazard-identification skills of workers.

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Impact of Training Methods on Hazard Recognition and Risk Perception in Construction

Cited by 29 publications

References 19 publications

Critical Success Factors for Safety Training in the Construction Industry

Critical Success Factors for Safety Training in the Construction Industry

A Review of Virtual and Mixed Reality Applications in Construction Safety Literature

PARS: Using Augmented 360-Degree Panoramas of Reality for Construction Safety Training

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