Assessing the Feasibility of Integrating the Internet of Things into Safety Management Systems: A Focus on Wearable Sensing Devices

Okpala, Ifeanyi; Parajuli, Aakash; Nnaji, Chukwuma; Awolusi, Ibukun

doi:10.1061/9780784482865.026

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“…Additionally, Lee and Johnstone [ 2 ] argued that, to date, new technologies within Industry 4.0 have been developed in isolation without consideration of the organizational culture that is part of an HSMS. However, the integrated use of an HSMS has not been holistically studied [ 19 ]. The implications from this study show that the inclusion and use of an organization’s core HSMS elements may be the missing link to continually ensure that S&H is considered when integrating new technologies in the workplace.…”

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“…In addition to the absence of worker well-being and new technologies being linked in the literature, the application of health and safety management systems (HSMS) to integrate and implement new technologies is also vague [ 1 , 19 ]. In this paper, the authors propose that if organizations use their existing HSMS to coordinate and execute guidance that supports worker engagement and consistent communication about new technologies, there may be fewer opportunities for misinformation.…”

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“…Taking this systems approach into consideration is essential when introducing new programs, tools, or practices. Research has indicated that the use of HSMS components when integrating DRST can be useful to help monitor safety performance and metrics [ 19 ]. However, scholars have argued that traditional HSMS are inflexible, and that research needs to improve the agility of current management systems to accommodate new technologies [ 1 ].…”

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“…Consequently, little information is available about the ways a continual improvement process, as boasted within an HSMS, may inform effective integration of DRST in the workplace. To summarize, research has failed to formally connect HSMS and DRST in a way that supports worker health and safety [ 19 ]. This failure to update and consult core HSMS elements, principles, and complementary practices may be hindering employee support for these new technologies.…”

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Using Core Elements of Health and Safety Management Systems to Support Worker Well-Being during Technology Integration

Haas

Cauda

2022

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Research studying the intersection of occupational safety and health (OSH) and direct reading and sensor technologies (DRST) is sparse, with a specific lack of research available that has empirically considered ways that DRST may impact worker well-being. In this paper, the authors examine how organizations could utilize core elements of their health and safety management system (HSMS) to coordinate and execute DRST in the workplace to support worker well-being. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) researchers developed a 39-item questionnaire targeting OSH professionals to understand attitudes toward DRST and the current and intended uses of DRST at their place of employment. Eighty-eight OSH professionals completed the questionnaire between August and December 2021. Descriptive results of the study sample are provided but the focus of the study applies the open-ended responses to two questions, which was deductively analyzed. Descriptive results show that reliability and validity of data was a top concern while the open-ended qualitative feedback revealed three primary themes: (1) acceptability and trust in technology; (2) ease of use; and (3) support and guidelines. Results provide an opening to use core HSMS elements (i.e., management commitment and leadership, communication and coordination, and employee involvement) during DRST integration to demonstrate support for workers during times of ambiguity and change.

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2022

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“…In the end, a cost comparison was provided, which suggested significant cost savings with respect to the traditional manual systems. Okpala et al [ 15 ] assessed the feasibility of integrating IoT into safety management systems (SMS), with specific focus on wearable sensing devices (WSDs) and location tracking biosensors. A structured questionnaire was used to assess the usefulness of WSDs in the SMS context.…”

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Investigating the Barriers to Applying the Internet-of-Things-Based Technologies to Construction Site Safety Management

Tabatabaee

Mohandes

Ahmed

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The utilization of Internet-of-Things (IoT)-based technologies in the construction industry has recently grabbed the attention of numerous researchers and practitioners. Despite the improvements made to automate this industry using IoT-based technologies, there are several barriers to the further utilization of these leading-edge technologies. A review of the literature revealed that it lacks research focusing on the obstacles to the application of these technologies in Construction Site Safety Management (CSSM). Accordingly, the aim of this research was to identify and analyze the barriers impeding the use of such technologies in the CSSM context. To this end, initially, the extant literature was reviewed extensively and nine experts were interviewed, which led to the identification of 18 barriers. Then, the fuzzy Delphi method (FDM) was used to calculate the importance weights of the identified barriers and prioritize them through the lenses of competent experts in Hong Kong. Following this, the findings were validated using semi-structured interviews. The findings showed that the barriers related to “productivity reduction due to wearable sensors”, “the need for technical training”, and “the need for continuous monitoring” were the most significant, while “limitations on hardware and software and lack of standardization in efforts,” “the need for proper light for smooth functionality”, and “safety hazards” were the least important barriers. The obtained findings not only give new insight to academics, but also provide practical guidelines for the stakeholders at the forefront by enabling them to focus on the key barriers to the implementation of IoT-based technologies in CSSM.

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Agri-Info: Cloud Based Autonomic System for Delivering Agriculture as a Service

2020

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Cloud computing has emerged as an important paradigm for managing and delivering services efficiently over the Internet. Convergence of cloud computing with technologies such as wireless sensor networking and mobile computing offers new applications' of cloud services but this requires management of Quality of Service (QoS) parameters to efficiently monitor and measure the delivered services. This paper presents a QoS-aware Cloud Based Autonomic Information System for delivering agriculture related information as a service through the use of latest Cloud technologies which manage various types of agriculture related data based on different domains. Proposed system gathers information from various users through preconfigured devices and manages and provides required information to users automatically. Further, Cuckoo Optimization Algorithm has been used for efficient resource allocation at infrastructure level for effective utilization of resources. We have evaluated the performance of the proposed approach in Cloud environment and experimental results show that the proposed system performs better in terms of resource utilization, execution time, cost and computing capacity along with other QoS parameters. IntroductionCloud computing has emerged as an important paradigm for managing and delivering the new emerging applications in the field of healthcare, agriculture, education, finance, etc. efficiently over the internet. However, providing dedicated cloud services that ensure application's dynamic QoS (Quality of Service) requirements and user satisfaction is a big research challenge in cloud computing. As dynamism, heterogeneity and complexity of applications is increasing rapidly, this makes cloud systems unmanageable in service delivery. To overcome these problems, cloud systems require self-management of services. Autonomic cloud computing systems provide the environment in which applications can be managed efficiently by fulfilling QoS requirements of applications without human involvement [1] [2].In our earlier work [1] [14] [15] [16] [27], we have identified various research issues related to QoS and SLA for cloud resource scheduling and have developed a QoS based resource provisioning technique (Q-aware) to map the resources to the workloads based on used requirements described in the form of SLA. Further, resource scheduling framework (QRSF) has been proposed, in which provisioned resources have been scheduled by using different resource scheduling policies (cost, time, cost-time and bargaining based). The concept of QRSF has been further extended by proposing energy-aware autonomic resource scheduling technique (EARTH), in which IBM's autonomic computing concept has been used to schedule the resources automatically by optimizing energy consumption and resource utilization where user can easily interact with the system using available user interface. In this work, we have proposed a cloud based autonomic information system which delivers Agriculture as a Service (AaaS) through cloud infrastructure and se...

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Assessing the Feasibility of Integrating the Internet of Things into Safety Management Systems: A Focus on Wearable Sensing Devices

Cited by 9 publications

References 28 publications

Using Core Elements of Health and Safety Management Systems to Support Worker Well-Being during Technology Integration

Using Core Elements of Health and Safety Management Systems to Support Worker Well-Being during Technology Integration

Investigating the Barriers to Applying the Internet-of-Things-Based Technologies to Construction Site Safety Management

Agri-Info: Cloud Based Autonomic System for Delivering Agriculture as a Service

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