Data-Driven Construction Safety Information Sharing System Based on Linked Data, Ontologies, and Knowledge Graph Technologies

Akeem Pedro, Anh-Tuan Pham-Hang, Phong Nguyen and Hai Chien Pham

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Abstract: Accident, injury, and fatality rates remain disproportionately high in the construction industry. Information from past mishaps provides an opportunity to acquire insights, gather lessons learned, and systematically improve safety outcomes. Advances in data science and industry 4.0 present new unprecedented opportunities for the industry to leverage, share, and reuse safety information more efficiently. However, potential benefits of information sharing are missed due to accident data being inconsistently formatted, non-machine-readable, and inaccessible. Hence, learning opportunities and insights cannot be captured and disseminated to proactively prevent accidents. To address these issues, a novel information sharing system is proposed utilizing linked data, ontologies, and knowledge graph technologies. An ontological approach is developed to semantically model safety information and formalize knowledge pertaining to accident cases. A multi-algorithmic approach is developed for automatically processing and converting accident case data to a resource description framework (RDF), and the SPARQL protocol is deployed to enable query functionalities. Trials and test scenarios utilizing a dataset of 200 real accident cases confirm the effectiveness and efficiency of the system in improving information access, retrieval, and reusability. The proposed development facilitates a new “open” information sharing paradigm with major implications for industry 4.0 and data-driven applications in construction safety management.

Keywords: construction safety; information sharing; knowledge graph; linked data; ontology; semantic web; data-driven; knowledge engineering; knowledge management; accident prevention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D8 D83 L74 L82 N6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-01-11, Revised 2022-01-07
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Published in International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health 2.19(2022): pp. 01-18

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