a social network model for construction safety knowledge sharing
DESCRIPTION
Due to the complicated and complex working environments, construction site still presents high accident rate, which is causing serious project delay and cost overrun. Abundant studies have focused on cause and effect on fatalities or safety training system, and so on. Most of them on this issue have been emphasized the necessity and utilization of information, rather than how to exchange, share and transfer safety data efficiently in the construction industry. With this regard, this paper proposes the Social Network System for Sharing Construction Safety & Health Knowledge (SNSS), which utilizes state-of-the-art of semantic wiki web and ontology construction technologies for better communication and representation for construction safety information. The SNSS is developed on the basis of Safety Semantic Wiki Template (SSWT), which consists of the following three modules: 1) A Safety information module (SIM) which upload common accident and hazard information for sharing; 2) A Safety knowledge module (SKM) where the safety information is refined, confirmed and transferred to safety knowledge; 3) A Safety dissemination module (SDM) which allows its users to monitor, manage and retrieve safety information and knowledge easily. The SNSS is tested by a scenario of using falling accident information by which the potentials and limitations of the system were addressed. The study emphasizes the potential applicability and benefits of social network system that could be utilized to enhance communication among participants in the construction industry.TRANSCRIPT
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A Social Network Model for Sharing
Construction Safety Knowledge
(SNSS)
Le Quang Tuan
Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
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1. Safety Problem and Motivation
2. Objectives
3. SNSS System Framework
4. SNSS System Evaluation
5. Ongoing Research
6. Conclusion
Content
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Acquire
Safety KnowledgeDevelop SNSS
Implement
Modules
Analysis Semantic
Wiki
Indentify
Problems
Literature
Review
High accident
rate
Implement Safety
Information
Module (SIM)
Implement Safety
Knowledge
Module (SKM)
Implement Safety
Dissemination
Module (SDM)
Validate SNSS
HOW WHY
Attract Users
Minimize Cost
Afford Safety
Scope & Methodology
Evaluate SNSS
Analysis Ontology
Technique
Methodology
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Safety Problem & Motivation Safety Problem
o Construction site experiences high accident rate that
causes cost overrun and time delay
Critical Reasons
o Safety knowledge communication problems
o The lack of retrieving and sharing practical experience
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Motivation
o The development of social network has become an
important issue to improve knowledge sharing process
o The semantic Wiki and ontology application are the
potential and powerful tools to facilitate information
exchange, reusing and knowledge acquisition
Safety Problem & Motivation
Ontology
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Enhancing construction safety information sharing and
knowledge exchange
o Social Communication
o Sharable Content
o Collaboration
Improving the safety performance in construction site
o Understanding the potential accident and the critical cause
of accident as well as prevention method
o Attaining practical experience
Objectives
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SNSS system framework
Irrelevant
information
Knowledge
Understanding
Knowledge Transfer
Knowledge Creation
Knowledge Refinement
Ontology Representation
Domain
Experts
Domain
Experts
Wiki Editing
Ontology tagging
Website
application
Safety Knowledge Module
(SKM)
Safety Dissemination
Module (SDM)
Knowledge
Creation
Knowledge
Confirmation
Knowledge
Representation
Knowledge
Transfer
Safety Data
record
External safety
information
Construction
safety knowledge
Inaccurate
information
Accident/
Dangerous
Occurrence cases
Relevant and Important
safety data
Data
Information
Classification
Accident Information
Case
Wiki Editing
Wiki Linking, Tagging, Browsing
Social Communication
Safety Information Module
(SIM)
Data
Contribution
Information
Classification
Safety Semantic Wiki Template (SSWT)
Information Knowledge Wisdom
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Safety Semantic Wiki Template (SSWT)
SSWT
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Safety Information Module (SIM)
SSWT Name
Accident or Dangerous
Occurrence Information
Accident Case
Date
Case Type
File Attach
Work Phase
Description
Result
Sharable content
Collaboration
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Safety Knowledge Module (SKM)
SSWT Name
Accident or Dangerous
Occurrence Information
Hazard Type
Hazard Case
… …
Safety Knowledge
Safety Knowledge
Safety Knowledge
… … … … … … … …
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SSWT Name
Hazard Type
Hazard Case
… …
Safety Knowledge
Voting
Discussion
Discussion
Refining Knowledge
The comment acquired more
than half voting point of
participants
Expert Domains
Expert Domains
Accident or Dangerous
Occurrence Information
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Safety Knowledge Module (SKM)
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Safety Dissemination Module (SDM)
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Safety Dissemination Module (SDM)
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Potentials
o Supporting the good environment for construction safety
knowledge retrieval
Limitations
o The pre-defined time for knowledge confirmation process
o The knowledge transfer procedure sometimes meet
problems due to the abuse of semantic resources tagging,
linking and ontology tagging
SNSS system Evaluation
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Developing the real system as pedagogical tool for
educating student. Students use the SNSS system to
discussing and sharing ideas through sharable content and
collaboration function.
Being directed toward the combination of SNSS and vitual
technique for establishing the good knowledge sharing
environment as well as developing the construction safety
training or education tool.
Ongoing Research
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SNSS that utilized state-of-the-art of semantic wiki and
ontology, create more effective and efficient representation
and communication tool
SNSS allows users conveniently and cooperatively
contribute, refine, and retrieve construction safety
knowledge
Conclusion
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