Digital Innovations and Smart Technologies for Occupational Health and Safety in Construction

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to draw your attention to a Special Issue of the international, cross-disciplinary, scholarly open access journal Sustainability (IF: 2.576 (2019)), titled “Digital Innovations and Smart Technologies for Occupational Health and Safety in Construction”, for which we are Guest Editors.

Occupational health and safety (OHS) is one of the major concerns in the construction industry because of the increased number of fatal and non-fatal injuries among construction workers. It is widely known that these occupational injuries can lead to substantial disorders, project delays, increased project costs, workers' absenteeism, medical burden, and permanent disabilities. Given these adverse effects, there is a need to mitigate occupational injuries in construction by monitoring construction hazards and suggesting proactive injury-preventive measures. With the advancement of digital innovations and smart technologies, there is great potential for researchers and industry practitioners to improve occupational health and safety among construction workers.

The goal of this Special Issue is to publish technical, empirical, and review papers that make practical and theoretical contributions to the cutting-edge digital innovations and smart technologies with the latest research findings and practical interventions to enhance OHS in the construction industry.

Given the above, this Special Issue is directed at any aspects of digital innovations and smart technologies for improving OHS in the construction industry. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

Applications of building information modelling (BIM) in safety checking and performance

Wearable sensing technologies for construction safety monitoring, activity recognition, etc.

Construction automation and robotics (e.g., exoskeletons)

Computer vision application for construction safety

Construction ergonomic risk assessment and interventions

Artificial intelligence applications for safety hazard identifications and prevention

Virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) applications in construction safety

Integration of different digital innovations and smart construction technologies

Dr. Maxwell Fordjour Antwi-Afari
Dr. Yantao Yu
Dr. Waleed Umer
Guest Editors

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