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

用于即时职业安全培训的移动健康

• 批准号: 8201179
• 负责人: Cesar Bandera
• 金额: $ 14.98万
• 依托单位: CELL PODIUM
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8201179
• 关键词: Health; Just; Time; Occupational; Safety

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.

描述（由申请人提供）：即时职业安全培训的移动健康拟议的SBIR第一阶段的总体目标是评估新兴领域移动健康（移动健康）概念在改善建筑工地工人职业安全方面的可行性和有效性。特别值得一提的是，拟议的努力将进行实地试验，以评估移动医疗作为多方面的建筑工地工作援助的效用，以进行安全培训和监测，利用工人的手机发送和接收多媒体的能力。移动医疗中手机短信（SMS）的普及促使其成为一种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未格式化文本（少于160个字符），这严重限制了它所能传递的信息。手机用户使用的彩信（MMS）正在赶超SMS。和短信一样，彩信不需要上网，而且成本低，对无线带宽中断也有弹性。然而，彩信比单纯的文字内容更丰富、更有吸引力。MMS将带有音频叙述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，使用彩信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无法在另一部手机上播放。Cell Podium提出了一种创新的广播技术，确保用户接收到在手机上播放的移动多媒体格式，而不管用户的设备型号（智能手机或传统设备）、运营商或订阅计划类型（例如，个人、随用随付、公司、家庭、有或没有数据计划）。大西洋职业安全与健康培训中心（新泽西州皮斯卡塔韦）正在使用这项技术将复习视频发送到注册学生的手机上，在课堂表现方面取得了可喜的成果。然而，这项技术能否有效地用于建筑工地，以减少违反安全规定和工作场所事故，还有待观察。该方案将在新泽西州最大的商业建筑公司“Structure Tone”的施工现场进行试点。该试点项目包括定期向Structure Tone建筑工地的参与工人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。目睹工人违反安全规定的现场安全主管和监督员也可以向该工人的手机发送针对该违法行为的复习视频。该试点项目还将评估该技术收集图像、视频、语音叙述以及从任何手机记录遵守和违反安全规则的能力。Cell Podium将与Structure Tone合作，开发一个简短的工作场所安全复习视频库，为至少10个行业和两种语言量身定制，并评估现有培训材料是否适合移动格式。现场工作人员将被邀请参加这个试点项目，只需打一个简短的电话到当地的电话号码；这使得Cell Podium技术能够捕捉呼叫者的ID、电话的多媒体功能和呼叫者的交易。任何参与者都可以随时选择退出或提交意见。Cell Podium将播放至少三个月的安全视频，Structure Tone将利用现有机制评估任何违反安全规定的趋势、现场士气和清洁度以及工作场所事故。