Extracting Knowledge for Searching for and Identifying Hazards on Construction Site

Ren-Jye Dzeng, Yi-Cho Fang

2015

Abstract

The construction industry accounts for a high number of accidents. Although identifying hazards before construction starts or during construction is widely employed to prevent accidents, it typically fails because of insufficient safety experience. The experience helps in training novice inspectors, although extracting and describing tacit knowledge explicitly is difficult. This study created a 3-D virtual construction site, and designed a hazard-identification experiment involving 14 hazards (e.g., falls, collapses, and electric shocks), and an eye-tracker was used to compare the search patterns of the experienced and novice workers. The results indicated that experience assisted the experienced workers in assessing hazards significantly faster than the novice workers could; however, it did not improve the accuracy with which they identified hazards, indicating that general work experience is not equivalent to safety-specific experience, and may not necessarily improve workers’ accuracy in identifying hazards. Nevertheless, the experienced workers were more confident in identifying hazards, they exhibited fewer fixations.

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in Harvard Style

Dzeng R. and Fang Y. (2015). Extracting Knowledge for Searching for and Identifying Hazards on Construction Site . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-114-4, pages 367-372. DOI: 10.5220/0005522403670372


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft-ea15,
author={Ren-Jye Dzeng and Yi-Cho Fang},
title={Extracting Knowledge for Searching for and Identifying Hazards on Construction Site},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={367-372},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005522403670372},
isbn={978-989-758-114-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2015)
TI - Extracting Knowledge for Searching for and Identifying Hazards on Construction Site
SN - 978-989-758-114-4
AU - Dzeng R.
AU - Fang Y.
PY - 2015
SP - 367
EP - 372
DO - 10.5220/0005522403670372