Enhancing safety management systems practices on construction projects: A proactive data-driven approach for project safety planning and control

建筑业是加拿大最重要的工业部门之一，是该国经济的支柱，对各省和地区经济产生重大影响。加拿大建筑业的死亡人数高于任何其他行业，而且几乎是恒定的。根据加拿大工人赔偿委员会协会的数据，从2016年到2018年，建筑业每年受理的损失工时索赔数量增加了9%。该项目的目标是研究和开发一个新的安全管理框架，以便根据历史和项目进度数据进行稳健和全面的安全规划。这一框架将促进在不同时间窗口整合来自不同来源的定量和定性数据，并将能够测试假设情景，以预测和评估不同管理决策对安全绩效的影响。该框架的开发将利用先进的机器学习和分布式仿真技术，以实现不同数据源的建模和集成。拟议框架的成功开发将有助于建筑从业人员和组织在建筑项目规划和执行过程中的决策过程，并有可能制定更有效的政策，以提高安全性能。预计该项目的成果将提高各组织的安全业绩，从而提高相关的保险费用（如工人赔偿率）。减少事故数量可以提高加拿大建筑业的生产力和竞争力。这项研究项目的创新和发现也可以提高阿尔伯塔和加拿大作为世界工人安全领导者的声誉。

Construction is one of Canada's most significant industrial sectors, and it is a mainstay of the country's economy that significantly affects provincial and regional economies. The number of fatalities in the Canadian construction industry is higher than any other industry, and it is practically constant. According to the Association of Workers' Compensation Boards of Canada, the number of accepted lost-time claims per year in the construction industry increased 9% from 2016 to 2018. The goal of this project is to research and develop a new framework for safety management that enables robust and holistic planning for safety based on historical and project progress data. This framework will facilitate the integration of quantitative and qualitative data from different sources at different time windows and will enable the testing of what-if scenarios to predict and evaluate the impact of different management decisions on safety performance. The development of this framework will utilize advanced machine learning and distributed simulation technologies to enable the modeling and integration of different data sources. Successful development of the proposed framework will assist the decision-making process of construction practitioners and organizations during construction project planning and execution, and can potentially enable the development of more effective policies for improving safety performance. The outcomes of this project are expected to enhance organizations safety performance and therefore related insurance costs (e.g. workers' compensation rates). Reducing the number of accidents can result in improving the productivity and competitiveness of the Canadian Construction industry. The innovations and findings of this research project can also advance Alberta and Canada's reputation as a world leader in worker safety.