@inproceedings{c32ed097c41b40ce92df8119e7ea9cf6,
title = "Health and Safety Management in the Digital Age: Exploring Baneful Elements of Digitalisation",
abstract = "While digital tools have been widely adopted in the construction industry to enhance quality and efficiency, adopting digitalisation for safety and health management has been relatively slow due to uncertainties regarding its potential impact. This paper examines the risks of implementing digital technologies in construction health and safety management. Despite the perceived benefits, digitalisation poses risks such as user error, increasing complexity, reduced interactive relations, information overload, and computer crashes. These risks can compromise the effectiveness and efficiency of construction health and safety management and put personnel working on sites in danger. The study suggests that understanding the different digitalisation risks is crucial for improving health and safety management in construction. Previous studies have focused on the benefits rather than the critical risks of employing digital technologies in construction, resulting in a knowledge gap. Therefore, the study provides empirical evidence on the risks associated with digitalisation to enable construction industry decision-makers to make informed decisions. The study recommends developing measures to reduce uncertainties related to employing digitalisation in construction health and safety. These measures will help overcome the risks associated with digitalisation. The strategies will further enhance construction health and safety practices and ensure that digitalisation yields positive outcomes. The findings of this study will assist construction industry decision-makers in making informed decisions regarding adopting digitalisation for health and safety management. This will help to reduce the uncertainties in return on investment and ensure that digitalisation enhances construction health and safety practices.",
keywords = "Construction Industry, Digital Tools, Digitalisation, Digitalisation Risks, Health and Safety",
author = "Olushola Akinshipe and Clinton Aigbavboa and Nikiwe Nhantumbo",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 by CITC-13.; 13th International Conference on Construction in the 21st Century, CITC 2023 ; Conference date: 08-05-2023 Through 11-05-2023",
year = "2023",
language = "English",
series = "International Conference on Construction in the 21st Century",
publisher = "East Carolina University",
editor = "Ahmed, {Syed M.} and Salman Azhar and Saul, {Amelia D.} and Mahaffy, {Kelly L.} and Farooqui, {Rizwan U.}",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Construction in the 21st Century, CITC 2023",
address = "United States",
}