Table of contents - Special Issue: Innovation in construction health, safety and environmental research
Guest Editors: Carl Haas
Right-time vs real-time pro-active construction safety and health system architecture
Jochen TeizerThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the critical time window for pro-active construction accident prevention and response. Large to small organisations throughout the…
Physiological cost of concrete construction activities
Wonil Lee, Giovanni Ciro MigliaccioThe purpose of this paper was to investigate the physiological cost of concrete construction activities.
Quantitative analysis of the impact of craft worker availability on construction project safety performance
Hossein Karimi, Timothy R.B. Taylor, Paul M. Goodrum, Cidambi SrinivasanThis paper aims to quantify the impact of craft worker shortage on construction project safety performance.
Information technology and safety: Integrating empirical safety risk data with building information modeling, sensing, and visualization technologies
Matthew Ryan Hallowell, Dylan Hardison, Matthieu DesvignesThe architecture, engineering and construction industry is known to account for a disproportionate rate of disabling injuries and fatalities. Information technologies show promise…
Tracking-based 3D human skeleton extraction from stereo video camera toward an on-site safety and ergonomic analysis
Meiyin Liu, SangUk Han, SangHyun LeeAs a means of data acquisition for the situation awareness, computer vision-based motion capture technologies have increased the potential to observe and assess manual activities…
Classifying construction site photos for roof detection: A machine-learning method towards automated measurement of safety performance on roof sites
Madhuri Siddula, Fei Dai, Yanfang Ye, Jianping FanRoofing is one of the most dangerous jobs in the construction industry. Due to factors such as lack of planning, training and use of precaution, roofing contractors and workers…
Opposing influences on construction plant and machinery health and safety innovations
Gary D. HoltThis paper aims to consider opposing influences on workplace plant and machinery health and safety (PMH&S) innovations, highlight examples of these to model PMH&S innovations’…
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1471-4175e-ISSN:
1477-0857ISSN-L:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Professor Peng Wu
- Professor Srinath Perera