Integrating safety culture into OSH risk mitigation: a pilot study on the electrical safety
Efforts have been taken for years to minimize the occupational safety and health (OSH) risk, but the injury records remain a constant reason for worldwide concerns. Many firms often implement technology as an administrative hierarchy of control (HOC). However, technologies may also actively influenc...
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Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
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| description | Efforts have been taken for years to minimize the occupational safety and health (OSH) risk, but the injury records remain a constant reason for worldwide concerns. Many firms often implement technology as an administrative hierarchy of control (HOC). However, technologies may also actively influence safe practices at the managerial level for administrative HOC. This research examines electrical safety hazards in the U.S. construction industry as a basis for, studying the feasibility of using technology to integrate safety culture into the administrative level of OSH risk mitigation. The researchers introduce the concept of “habitus”, which suggests one possibility for establishing a safety culture that increases workers’ safety performance and integrates into workers’ safety practices through cutting-edge information technology. A prototype application for OSH training based on mobile virtual reality (MVR) technology is demonstrated to help establish habitus in workers’ daily practices, and ultimately to mitigate OSH risks at the administrative level of construction projects. Results from a preliminary validation test strongly support human behavior influence and safe work knowledge comprehension by the prototyped application. Although this prototype is demonstrated as a pilot study of electrical safety, the application is not limited to this area and is scalable to other OSH risks. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-514a015f13e34f568adc99355d6b5fb72022-12-21T23:20:19ZengVilnius Gediminas Technical UniversityJournal of Civil Engineering and Management1392-37301822-36052016-06-0122610.3846/13923730.2014.914099Integrating safety culture into OSH risk mitigation: a pilot study on the electrical safetyDong Zhao0Andrew Mccoy1Brian Kleiner2Yingbin Feng3Department of Building Construction, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, 24061 VA, USADepartment of Building Construction, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, 24061 VA, USAMyers-Lawson School of Construction, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, 24061 VA, USASchool of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Western Sydney, NSW 2751, AustraliaEfforts have been taken for years to minimize the occupational safety and health (OSH) risk, but the injury records remain a constant reason for worldwide concerns. Many firms often implement technology as an administrative hierarchy of control (HOC). However, technologies may also actively influence safe practices at the managerial level for administrative HOC. This research examines electrical safety hazards in the U.S. construction industry as a basis for, studying the feasibility of using technology to integrate safety culture into the administrative level of OSH risk mitigation. The researchers introduce the concept of “habitus”, which suggests one possibility for establishing a safety culture that increases workers’ safety performance and integrates into workers’ safety practices through cutting-edge information technology. A prototype application for OSH training based on mobile virtual reality (MVR) technology is demonstrated to help establish habitus in workers’ daily practices, and ultimately to mitigate OSH risks at the administrative level of construction projects. Results from a preliminary validation test strongly support human behavior influence and safe work knowledge comprehension by the prototyped application. Although this prototype is demonstrated as a pilot study of electrical safety, the application is not limited to this area and is scalable to other OSH risks.http://journals.vgtu.lt/index.php/JCEM/article/view/1877occupational safety and healthelectrical safetyconstructionvirtual realityrisk management |
| spellingShingle | Dong Zhao Andrew Mccoy Brian Kleiner Yingbin Feng Integrating safety culture into OSH risk mitigation: a pilot study on the electrical safety Journal of Civil Engineering and Management occupational safety and health electrical safety construction virtual reality risk management |
| title | Integrating safety culture into OSH risk mitigation: a pilot study on the electrical safety |
| title_full | Integrating safety culture into OSH risk mitigation: a pilot study on the electrical safety |
| title_fullStr | Integrating safety culture into OSH risk mitigation: a pilot study on the electrical safety |
| title_full_unstemmed | Integrating safety culture into OSH risk mitigation: a pilot study on the electrical safety |
| title_short | Integrating safety culture into OSH risk mitigation: a pilot study on the electrical safety |
| title_sort | integrating safety culture into osh risk mitigation a pilot study on the electrical safety |
| topic | occupational safety and health electrical safety construction virtual reality risk management |
| url | http://journals.vgtu.lt/index.php/JCEM/article/view/1877 |
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