Better understanding of safety culture and causal relationships between its key elements is a must for construction organizations to strategically allocate their safety resources. This paper reports the use of structural equation modelling (SEM) technique to test causal relationships between key elements of construction safety culture. These elements (five enablers and goals) were identified th...

Worker safety at construction sites is a growing concern for many industries. Wearing helmets can reduce injuries to workers sites, but due various reasons, are not always worn properly. Hence, computer vision-based automatic helmet detection system extremely important. Many researchers have developed machine and deep learning-based systems, few focused on sites. This paper presents You Only Lo...

Although construction has been known as a highly complex application field for autonomous robotic systems, recent advances in this field offer great hope for using robotic capabilities to develop automated construction. Today, space research agencies seek to build infrastructures without human intervention, and construction companies look to robots with the potential to improve construction qua...

Safety statistics for construction indicate high fatality and injury rates. Construction firms in the USA must keep detailed records of all site incidents for OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration). It is found that many construction firms maintain these records just to satisfy the OSHA requirements and seldom use the data in the planning and decision-making of future projects. If...

Accident reports in the United States’ construction industry show over 1,000 fatalities for each of the past eleven years. Most of these accidents are related to falls and close contacts to equipment or other harmful substances. Although these accident statistics would have been significantly worse if safety training and best practices had not been provided to workers, the assessment of critica...

The United States construction industry experienced 151 fatalities resulting from workers colliding with objects and equipment in 2009. These fatalities accounted for approximately 18% of the total construction fatalities and 3% of the total workplace fatalities experienced that year. Construction workers and equipment are often required to function at close proximity on construction jobsites. ...