Handbook of Construction Safety, Health and Well-being in the Industry 4.0 Era

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This Handbook seeks to examine and advance current understanding of the confluence of construction health, safety and wellbeing and the broad range of Industry 4.0 technologies in use in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry. Globally, the construction sector accounts for over 100,000 occupational fatalities annually. In many countries, reports of work-related accidents, injuries, and illnesses are commonplace and there is an urgent need to improve the occupational safety and health (OSH) outlook of the construction sector. The fourth industrial revolution present opportunities to leverage modern technologies (e.g., big data, artificial intelligence, automation, sensors, AR, VR, and robotics) to improve the poor OSH performance of the construction industry. However, embracing such technologies could also induce adverse unintended consequences for the safety, health, and well-being of construction workers. Therefore, the realisation of the opportunities as well as the mitigation of potentially adverse consequences requires research informed holistic insights around the union of Industry 4.0 and construction occupational safety and health management. This cutting-edge volume addresses a significant gap in literature by bringing together experienced academics and researchers to highlight the drivers, the opportunities, and drawbacks of the merging of industry 4.0 with construction health, safety and wellbeing. After a detailed introductory section which highlights key issues and challenges, part 1 covers the application of a broad range of digital technologies, before part 2 discusses the application of industrial production and cyber physical systems in the context of construction safety and health management. Readers from a broad range of AEC backgrounds as well as safety professionals and technologists will come to understand how the technologies are applied, the resulting OSH benefits as well as potential drawbacks. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of contributors Foreword 1 The confluence of Industry 4.0 and construction occupational safety, health and well-being: an overview Section one Industry 4.0 digital technologies for construction OSHW management 2 Construction safety management visualization with 4D BIM 3 A conceptual framework for facilitating the integration of information and communication data in BIM-PtD activities 4 Developing Industry 4.0 applications: a social construction of technology approach 5 Safety management of drones in construction 6 The safety impetus for the adoption of reality capture for remote virtual site inspections 7 Key components of a VR-enabled interactive platform to facilitate effective construction risk and safety education 8 Applying 360-degree virtual reality for construction safety training 9 Delivering construction safety training and education using immersive learning technology: a state-of-the-art review and future research directions 10 Educational game evaluation on smartphones for occupational safety training 11 Machine learning for safety hazard identification in construction 12 Computer vision–based management of construction workers’ unsafe behaviour 13 A conceptual framework for behaviour-based safety in the digital era 14 Artificial intelligence for occupational health and safety management in construction: a systematic review 15 Barriers to big data techniques application in construction safety, health, and well-being 16 GIS-based health and safety information analysis 17 Using digital technology to support employees’ mental health in the construction industry: a systematic review 18 Digital technologies and well-being in architecture in the COVID-19 era 19 Risk modelling techniques for occupational safety and health management in construction: a case study of physical industrial assets maintenance Section two Industry 4.0 physical technologies for construction OSHW management 20 Safety risk factors in the use of construction robots 21 Application of exoskeletons for occupational safety and health management in construction: a systematic review 22 Towards improved health monitoring in construction with smartwatches 23 The digitalization of UK construction labour: wearables and workers, but where is the well-being? 24 A systematic review of Internet of Things applications in construction occupational safety and health management 25 Benefits of prefabrication on health and safety in the Australian housing sector Index