m-Health for Just-In-Time Occupational Safety Training

描述（由申请人提供）：即时职业安全培训的移动健康建议SBIR第一阶段的总体目标是评估新兴领域的移动的健康（移动健康）概念的可行性和有效性，以改善建筑工地工人的职业安全。特别是，拟议的工作将进行实地试验，评估移动保健作为建筑工地安全培训和监测的多方面工作辅助工具的效用，该工具利用工人的手机发送和接收多媒体的能力。移动的短信（SMS）在移动健康中的普及促使其用作传递简单安全警报的方法。SMS的一个缺点是它只支持简短的无格式文本（160个字符以下），这严重限制了它可以传达的信息。图片和视频消息（MMS）在手机用户中越来越受欢迎。与SMS一样，MMS不需要互联网接入，并且成本低，对无线带宽中断具有弹性。然而，MMS比文本更具信息性和吸引力。MMS将带有音频旁白和视频的幻灯片推送到手机中，即使在没有信号覆盖的情况下也可以播放，并且很容易共享。由于手机和运营商之间缺乏多媒体互操作性，使用MMS的商业服务的部署受到阻碍。例如，不同的手机通常支持不同的文件格式，在一部手机上播放的教学视频可能不会在另一部手机上播放。Cell Podium提出了一种创新的广播技术，该技术确保用户以在他们的蜂窝电话上播放的格式接收移动的多媒体，而不管用户的设备型号（智能电话或传统设备）、运营商或订阅计划的类型（例如，个人、即用即付、公司、家庭、具有或不具有数据计划）。大西洋职业安全与卫生管理局培训中心（皮斯卡特维，新泽西州）正在使用这项技术发送复习视频到注册学生的手机上，在课堂表现上取得了可喜的成果。然而，这项技术是否能有效地用于建筑工地，以减少安全违规和工作场所事故，还有待观察。拟议的努力将在结构音（新泽西最大的商业建筑公司）的一个建筑工地进行试点。该试点包括向Structure Tone建筑工地的参与工人定期播放职业安全复习视频和安全/物流警报，并评估随后安全违规和工作场所事故的减少情况。每个参与的工人只会收到与工人在工作现场的任务相关的视频。现场安全主管和监督员目睹工人违反安全规定，也将能够向该工人的手机发送一个专门针对违反规定的复习视频。试点还将评估该技术收集图像、视频、语音叙述和任何手机记录的能力，以记录遵守和违反安全规则的情况。Cell Podium将与Structure Tone合作，开发一个针对至少十个行业和两种语言的简短工作场所安全复习视频库，并评估将现有培训材料改编成移动的格式的情况。现场工作人员将被邀请参加试点项目，这只需要简单地拨打一个本地电话号码;这使得手机平台技术能够捕获来电者ID，电话的多媒体功能和来电者的交易。在任何时候，任何参与者都可以选择退出或提交评论。Cell Podium将播放至少三个月的安全视频，Structure Tone将使用现有机制评估违反安全规定、现场士气和清洁以及工作场所事故的任何趋势。 公共卫生相关性：拟议的移动保健技术是内容不可知的，并支持与手机人口的外联，包括服务不足和弱势群体，他们往往更依赖手机而不是固定电话。通过利用中间件（而不是移动的应用程序）解决移动的媒体互操作性的障碍，并利用手机采用趋势，该技术在新的移动的设备被引入市场时保持其价值，同时保持对旧的或较便宜的手机的支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): m-Health for Just-In-Time Occupational Safety Training The overall aim of the proposed SBIR Phase I is to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of concepts from the emerging field of mobile health (m-Health) on improving the occupational safety of construction site workers. In particular, the proposed effort will conduct field trials that assess the utility of m-Health as a multifaceted construction site job aid for safety training and monitoring that exploits the ability of workers' cell phones to send and receive multimedia. The popularity of mobile text messaging (SMS) in m-Health has prompted its use as a method to deliver simple safety alerts. A drawback of SMS is that it only supports brief unformatted text (under 160 characters) which severely constrains the information it can convey. Picture and video messaging (MMS) among cell phone users is gaining SMS in popularity. Like SMS, MMS does not require internet access and is as low-cost and resilient to wireless bandwidth interruptions. However, MMS is much more informative and appealing than just text. MMS pushes slideshows with audio narration and videos into a cell phone, which can be played even when there is no signal coverage and which are easily shared. The deployment of commercial services using MMS is impeded by a lack of multimedia interoperability among cell phones and carriers. For example, different cell phones will often support different file formats, and an instructional video that plays on one phone might not play on another. Cell Podium proposes an innovative broadcast technology that ensures users receive mobile multimedia in formats that play on their cell phones, regardless of the user's device model (smartphone or legacy device), carrier, or type of subscription plan (e.g., individual, pay-as-you-go, corporate, family, with or without data plan). The Atlantic OSHA Training Center (Piscataway, NJ) is using this technology to send refresher videos to the cell phones of enrolled students, with promising results on class performance. However, it remains to be seen if this technology can be used effectively in a construction site to reduce safety violations and workplace accidents. The proposed effort will conduct a pilot at a construction site of Structure Tone (the largest commercial construction firm in New Jersey). The pilot consists of broadcasting both periodic occupational safety refresher videos and safety/logistics alerts to participating workers at a Structure Tone construction site, and assessing any subsequent reduction in safety violations and workplace incidents. Each participating worker will only receive videos relevant to the worker's assignment at the job site. Site safety directors and superintendents witnessing a worker committing a safety violation will also be able to send to that worker's cell phone a refresher video specific to the violation. The pilot will also assess the technology's ability to collect imagery, video, voice narration, and notes made from any cell phone to document compliance with and violation of safety rules. In collaboration with Structure Tone, Cell Podium will develop a library of brief workplace safety refresher videos tailored to at least ten trades and two languages, and evaluate the adaptation of existing training material into mobile formats. Site workers will be invited to enroll in the pilot project, which simply entails making a brief call to a local phone number; this allows the Cell Podium technology to capture the caller ID, the multimedia capabilities of the phone, and the caller's trade. At any time, any participants can opt-out or submit comments. Cell Podium will broadcast safety videos for at least three months, and Structure Tone will assess any trends in safety violations, site morale and cleanliness, and workplace incidents using the mechanisms it already has in place. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: m-Health for Just-In-Time Occupational Safety Training The proposed m-Health technology is content-agnostic, and supports outreach to demographics with cell phones, including underserved and vulnerable populations which often rely on cell phones more than landlines. By addressing obstacles to mobile media interoperability with middleware (instead of with mobile apps), and exploiting cell phone adoption trends, the technology retains its value as new mobile devices are introduced into the marketplace while maintaining support for older or less expensive cell phones.