Xu, W and Wang, T K (2020) Dynamic safety prewarning mechanism of human-machine-environment using computer vision. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 27(8), pp. 1813-1833. ISSN 0969-9988
Abstract
Purpose: This study provides a safety prewarning mechanism, which includes a comprehensive risk assessment model and a safety prewarning system. The comprehensive risk assessment model is capable of assessing nine safety indicators, which can be categorised into workers' behaviour, environment and machine-related safety indicators, and the model is embedded in the safety prewarning system. The safety prewarning system can automatically extract safety information from surveillance cameras based on computer vision, assess risks based on the embedded comprehensive risk assessment model, categorise risks into five levels and provide timely suggestions. Design/methodology/approach: Firstly, the comprehensive risk assessment model is constructed by adopting grey multihierarchical analysis method. The method combines the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the grey clustering evaluation in the grey theory. Expert knowledge, obtained through the questionnaire approach, contributes to set weights of risk indicators and evaluate risks. Secondly, a safety prewarning system is developed, including data acquisition layer, data processing layer and prewarning layer. Computer vision is applied in the system to automatically extract real-time safety information from the surveillance cameras. The safety information is then processed through the comprehensive risk assessment model and categorized into five risk levels. A case study is presented to verify the proposed mechanism. Findings: Through a case study, the result shows that the proposed mechanism is capable of analyzing integrated human-machine-environment risk, timely categorising risks into five risk levels and providing potential suggestions. Originality/value: The comprehensive risk assessment model is capable of assessing nine risk indicators, identifying three types of entities, workers, environment and machine on the construction site, presenting the integrated risk based on nine indicators. The proposed mechanism, which adopts expert knowledge through Building Information Modeling (BIM) safety simulation and extracts safety information based on computer vision, can perform a dynamic real-time risk analysis, categorize risks into five risk levels and provide potential suggestions to corresponding risk owners. The proposed mechanism can allow the project manager to take timely actions.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | computer vision; grey multihierarchical analysis; human-machine-environment integration; prewarning mechanism |
| Index terms: | methodology, integration, questionnaire, data processing, risk analysis, surveillance, computer vision, construction site, risk assessment, clustering, data acquisition, building information modelling, project manager, case study, owner |
| Subjects: | data science, work location, profession, data collection methods, information systems, environmental hazards, sociology, organizational analysis, financial risk, computer vision, monitoring and control systems, research methods |
| Topics: | Cost Management, Research Practice, Stakeholder Management, Roles and Professions, Sustainability, Governance, Digital Applications, Organizational Design, Site Management |
| Descriptive scope: | 5 PCTEA |
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