https://doi.org/10.24928/2018/0418

Leveraging Technology by Digitalization Using “I Report App” for Safety at Construction Sites

Rishikesh Ahirrao¹

Abstract

Construction industry is highly unorganized in most developing countries and prone to major risks and safety non-conformances. Identification of unsafe conditions and unsafe acts at construction sites is a huge challenge due to less participation from stakeholders, reluctance in filling up the manual formats and inconsistency in hazard reporting, recording and timely closure of safety issues resulting in various wastes affecting organization’s Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) performance. Digitization has its issues such as unavailability of a user-friendly systems at construction sites etc. This slows down the safety improvements and risk mitigation initiatives. In order to address the operational challenges of delivering “Safe projects with the aim of “zero accidents” the organisation took up the task of exploring Information Technology (IT) to create an App suitable to all stakeholders and which would provide a platform for quick redressal of safety concerns and improvement of existing safety processes. The paper explains how the mobile App I-Report was developed by collaborating with all internal stakeholders and how it succeeded in improving the safety performance of the organisation. How digitization helped create safe work sites, reduce accidents and incidents by continuous improvements of safety processes based on IT enabled data analytics is answered in this paper.

Keywords

Lean App, Safety, hand held assistant, hazard identification and reporting.

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Ahirrao, R. 2018. Leveraging Technology by Digitalization Using “I Report App” for Safety at Construction Sites, 26th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction , 943-951. doi.org/10.24928/2018/0418

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