Type of Document	Master's Thesis
Author	Sunkara, Prabhu
Author's Email Address	sunkaraprabhu@hotmail.com
URN	etd-08222005-160304
Title	A Tablet PC Application for Construction Site Safety Inspection and Fatality Prevention
Degree	Master of Science in Engineering Science (M.S.E.S.)
Department	Engineering Science (Interdepartmental Program)
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Yilmaz Hatipkarasulu Committee Chair Fereydoun Aghazadeh Committee Member John Rogers Smith Committee Member Xiaoyue Jiang Committee Member
Keywords	form based c sharp checklist
Date of Defense	2005-08-04
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract Construction industry accounts for the largest number of occupational injuries and fatalities every year. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is an organization responsible for regulating and enforcing standards for various occupations to ensure safe working conditions including construction industry. As an OSHA requirement, every construction employer should employ a safety program that involves both training of the employees and frequent site inspections. OSHA has provided an online ‘construction eTool’ as a training tool which also aids in the development of safety inspection procedures. Traditionally, safety inspections are paper based and usually designed to address a specific work area or procedure. The inspection reports did not include any detailed visual data which may increase the cost of maintenance and data mining for problem areas. This project explains the possibility of using Tablet PC’s as tool for performing safety inspections at a construction site to identify occupational hazards. As a part of the project, a Tablet PC application, Hazard Prevention Tool (HPT), is developed that concentrates on the four prime hazard areas, Electrical, Falls, Struck By, and Trenching and Excavation, hazards. The application makes it possible to capture the image of the worksite and marking the problem areas on the image. After each site inspection, a report is generated which includes the worksite image with problem areas marked and possible solutions for each problem area based on the OSHA recommendations. A usability test is also conducted as a part of the project using three sample work sites.
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