TY - JOUR

T1 - Towards a unifying domain model of construction safety, health and well-being:

T2 - SafeConDM

AU - Li, Beidi

AU - Schultz, Carl

AU - Teizer, Jochen

AU - Golovina, Olga

AU - Melzner, Jürgen

PY - 2022/1

Y1 - 2022/1

N2 - Specific occupational construction safety, health, and well-being related knowledge and information are scattered and fragmented. Despite technological advancements of information and knowledge management, a link between safety management and information models is still missing. In this paper we present first steps towards a unifying formal (logic-based) domain model of construction safety, called SafeConDM, that consists of: (1) a semantically rich ontology of hazard, safety concepts, and concept relationships that builds on, and integrates with, existing construction safety ontologies and building information models; (2) a set of first-order if-then rules linking construction site states with the potential for specific hazards to occur that we define in a novel way using spatial artefacts. We present a prototype software tool, based on our ASP4BIM tool that implements SafeConDM for construction hazard analysis and safe construction planning decision support, and empirically evaluate our tool on three real-world construction building models.

AB - Specific occupational construction safety, health, and well-being related knowledge and information are scattered and fragmented. Despite technological advancements of information and knowledge management, a link between safety management and information models is still missing. In this paper we present first steps towards a unifying formal (logic-based) domain model of construction safety, called SafeConDM, that consists of: (1) a semantically rich ontology of hazard, safety concepts, and concept relationships that builds on, and integrates with, existing construction safety ontologies and building information models; (2) a set of first-order if-then rules linking construction site states with the potential for specific hazards to occur that we define in a novel way using spatial artefacts. We present a prototype software tool, based on our ASP4BIM tool that implements SafeConDM for construction hazard analysis and safe construction planning decision support, and empirically evaluate our tool on three real-world construction building models.

KW - Fall hazards

KW - Occupational health and safety

KW - Building information modelling

KW - Rule checking

KW - Logic programming

KW - Building information modelling

KW - Fall hazards

KW - Logic programming

KW - Occupational health and safety

KW - Rule checking

U2 - 10.1016/j.aei.2021.101487

DO - 10.1016/j.aei.2021.101487

M3 - Journal article

VL - 51

JO - Advanced Engineering Informatics

JF - Advanced Engineering Informatics

SN - 1474-0346

M1 - 101487

ER -