A systematic review of construction workers’ health and safety research in India

Chellappa, Vigneshkumar; Srivastava, Vasundhara; Salve, Urmi Ravindra

doi:10.1108/jedt-08-2020-0345

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“…Furthermore, Pansare et al (2021) used a systematic literature review and analysis of RMS-related research papers from 1999 to 2020. In their research, Neale and Gurmu (2021) and Chellappa et al (2021) adopted the systematic review of the literature approach. In addition, Neale and Gurmu (2021) investigated the impacts of production pressures in the building sector and proposed mitigation strategies accordingly.…”

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“…In addition, Neale and Gurmu (2021) investigated the impacts of production pressures in the building sector and proposed mitigation strategies accordingly. In contrast, in India, Chellappa et al (2021) investigated construction workers' health and safety using a science mapping approach. Finally, Edwards et al (2021) performed "a systematic review of the extant literature on the application of driverless technologies in civil engineering.…”

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Estimation of annual average daily traffic (AADT) data for low-volume roads: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis

2022

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Background: The annual average daily traffic (AADT) data from road segments are critical for roadway projects, especially with the decision-making processes about operations, travel demand, safety-performance evaluation, and maintenance. Regular updates help to determine traffic patterns for decision-making. Unfortunately, the luxury of having permanent recorders on all road segments, especially low-volume roads, is virtually impossible. Consequently, insufficient AADT information is acquired for planning and new developments. A growing number of statistical, mathematical, and machine-learning algorithms have helped estimate AADT data values accurately, to some extent, at both sampled and unsampled locations on low-volume roadways. In some cases, roads with no representative AADT data are resolved with information from roadways with similar traffic patterns. Methods: This study adopted an integrative approach with a combined systematic literature review (SLR) and meta-analysis (MA) to identify and to evaluate the performance, the sources of error, and possible advantages and disadvantages of the techniques utilized most for estimating AADT data. As a result, an SLR of various peer-reviewed articles and reports was completed to answer four research questions. Results: The study showed that the most frequent techniques utilized to estimate AADT data on low-volume roadways were regression, artificial neural-network techniques, travel-demand models, the traditional factor approach, and spatial interpolation techniques. These AADT data-estimating methods’ performance was subjected to meta-analysis. Three studies were completed: R squared, root means square error, and mean absolute percentage error. The meta-analysis results indicated a mixed summary effect: 1. all studies were equal; 2. all studies were not comparable. However, the integrated qualitative and quantitative approach indicated that spatial-interpolation (Kriging) methods outperformed the others. Conclusions: Spatial-interpolation methods may be selected over others to generate accurate AADT data by practitioners at all levels for decision making. Besides, the resulting cross-validation statistics give statistics like the other methods' performance measures.

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Estimation of annual average daily traffic (AADT) data for low-volume roads: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis

2022

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“…Due to the broader coverage of studies, Scopus was chosen in this study [16]. Also, previous literature review studies [17,18] in the construction management domain used the Scopus database to collect documents.…”

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VR-based Safety Training Research in Construction

Chellappa

Mésároš

Špak

et al. 2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng.

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Safety training in the construction industry widely adopted virtual reality (VR) technologies to train and educate employees and workers to enhance the safety performance of projects. In this study, a review of VR-based safety training research in construction was carried out to understand the body of literature. Using keywords such as “construction industry” OR “safety training” OR “safety learning," etc., a total of 52 journal articles published between 2000 and 2021 were collected from the Scopus database after advanced filtering. A two-stage analysis of VR-based safety training methods and application areas was carried out were followed by a review. The results indicate that the immersive safety training method was widely used followed by desktop-based, game-based, and BIM-based training methods. VR-based safety training methods are largely applied to hazard recognition (HR), safe operations (SO), and safety awareness (SA). The study findings could assist both academicians and construction practitioners in choosing the best optimal VR-based safety training methods to improve training performance.

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“…The occupational hazards which welders get exposed to are ultraviolet and infrared radiation exposure, harmful metal fumes and particulate matter, thermal burns (6). These hazards can be prevented through use of PPE which is a last resort when engineering and administrative controls are insu cient for controlling the hazards (7). These include gloves, overalls, boots, face shields, head or neck coverings and many others.…”

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Unmasking factors associated with Personal Protective Equipment Use among Carpenters and Welders in urban district in Uganda

Nalugya

Walekhwa

Ddamulira

2022

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Background Use of Personal protective equipment is one of the measures to reduce occupational injuries. Carpentry and welding are associated with occupational hazards, in the process of performing these tasks, they suffer from work related injuries due to low or no use of personal protective equipment. Despite the known importance of workers using Personal Protective Equipment, there is limited documentation in Uganda. We therefore sought to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices towards the use of personal protective equipment among carpenters and welders in Seeta, Mukono district. Methods A cross sectional descriptive was conducted among people engaged in welding and carpentry. We collected data using both quantitative and qualitative techniques. Systematic simple random sampling was conducted to identify the study participants. Using Kish Leslie’s formula (Kish, 1959), we estimated the sample size of 152 respondents where 76 carpenters and 76 welders were interviewed. Four key informants were interviewed using key informant guide to understand the context of personal protective equipment use among the study participants. Quantitative data was collected using opened ended questionnaires and structured checklist embedded in android smartphones. For qualitative data, face to face interviews were conducted by the corresponding author. Quantitative data was entered in Epi-collect, cleaned and analyzed using STATA 13.0 and qualitative data was analyzed by conventional content analysis. Results Majority of the participants 96.7% (147/152) were males and the mean age was 31.42. Most of the participants 99.3% (151/152) reported to have heard about personal protective equipment and all reported that Personal Protective Equipment offers them protection (99.3%). Majority used boots/shoes 39.86% (61/152) where they reported using it while doing any work 78.29% (119/152). Being a carpenter (p=0.001) and never hearing about personal protective equipment (p=0.001) were statistically significant to always using a personal protective equipment at work places. Conclusions Our study highlighted that participants had good knowledge on the need to use of personal protective equipment at their workplace although few were having good practices of using them. We recommend the district local government authorities while enforcing the occupational health regulation should increase awareness among welders and carpenters in bid to protect their health.

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A systematic review of construction workers’ health and safety research in India

Cited by 29 publications

References 72 publications

Estimation of annual average daily traffic (AADT) data for low-volume roads: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis

Estimation of annual average daily traffic (AADT) data for low-volume roads: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis

VR-based Safety Training Research in Construction

Unmasking factors associated with Personal Protective Equipment Use among Carpenters and Welders in urban district in Uganda

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