Construction Personnel

TRB Webinar: Construction Project Staffing Strategies for Transportation Agencies (Training)

State transportation agencies are tasked with doing more to manage highway transportation networks with fewer staff. This webinar presented guidance for addressing workforce challenges within the cons… More

Recommended COVID-19 Response Plan for Construction Employers (Publication)

Resource Type: Manuals, Policies, Guidelines, and Handbooks, etc.

In this COVID-19 Response Plan, the Laborers’ Health & Safety Fund of North America provides recommendations on the steps to take to limit the spread of COVID-19 and mitigate risk to workers.More

A Real-Time Computer Vision System for Workers’ PPE and Posture Detection in Actual Construction Site Environment (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

The real-time video detection model is yet a challenging, especially in detecting construction site workers and their PPE (helmet and safety gear) and postures, since the construction site environment…More

Perceptions of Safety Climate Across Construction Personnel: Associations With Injury Rates (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

While there is a growing body of literature on assessing perceptions of safety climate, many of these studies report a company's safety climate as a worker-based phenomenon. Discrepancies in perceptio…More

Underlying Causes for Risk Taking Behaviour Among Construction Workers (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

This paper will examine the unsafe work practices that are plaguing the construction industry. Statistics show that four out of five of all workplace accidents are attributed to unsafe behaviour. Rese…More

Investigating the Safety Cognition of Construction Personnel Based on Safety Education (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

Competency in safety is important for construction personnel and it is compulsory for all construction personnel in Malaysia to attend safety training/courses. A literature review of the recommended s…More

Characterizing Perceived Aspects of Adverse Impact of Noise on Construction Managers on Construction Sites (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

This study aims to assess various perceived adverse effects of noise on construction sites according to the different stages and machinery used in the stages, and to examine whether or not personal-…More

Enhancing Action Recognition of Construction Workers Using Data-Driven Scene Parsing (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

Vision-based action recognition of construction workers has attracted increasing attention for its diverse applications. Though state-of-the-art performances have been achieved using spatial-temporal …More

Design and Implementation of Vision Based Safety Detection Algorithm for Personnel in Construction Site (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

The failure of construction workers to wear safety equipment as required is an important cause of safety accidents. In fortunate cases people are injured and severe cases can cause death. In order to …More

Documenting Construction Worker Knowledge and Attitude Around Reversing Aids and Visibility Policies (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

Accidents and fatalities related to reversing machinery continue to be a large issue and are very costly to the industrial sector. Even with the policies and legislation efforts established on worksit…More

Virtual Learning for Workers in Robot Deployed Construction Sites (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

This paper provides various aspects to consider during the creation of a novel virtual learning environment (VLE) for the education of construction workers interacting with robots. First, the characte…More

Measuring the Impacts of Safety Knowledge on Construction Workers’ Attentional Allocation and Hazard Detection Using Remote Eye-Tracking Technology (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

Although several studies have highlighted the importance of attention in reducing the number of injuries in the construction industry, few have attempted to empirically measure the attention of constr…More

Behavior-Based Safety on Construction Sites: A Case Study (Publication)

Resource Type: Articles, Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

This work presents the results of a case study and describes an important area within the field of construction safety management, namely behavior-based safety (BBS). This paper adopts and develops a …More

Forecasting Highway Construction Staffing Requirements: A Synthesis of Highway Practice (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

Adequate construction staffing is critical for performance of highway construction projects. The variable nature of these projects, however, can make it difficult to estimate construction staff requir…More

Toll-Free Oregon DOT Number Connects Workers with Construction Opportunities (Publication)

Resource Type: Other News Releases

The Oregon Department of Transportation's Office of Civil Rights has opened a toll-free, bilingual phone line so that Oregonians interested in highway construction jobs can find out about employment o…More