Workplace safety

A World Economic Forum Working Group looked at future scenarios for construction. Here, Aref Boualwan, Group Manager - Digital Transformation, CCC and Strategy Officer, World Economic Forum, outlines those scenarios. In considering what construction will look like in 2050, the World Economic Forum working group came up with three extreme ...

Construction suffers from a high rate of injury onsite - exoskeletons could help reduce workplace accidents and cut the number of days employees are off sick Workplace safety is a serious challenge for the construction industry. It has one of the highest rates of workplace injury compared with other sectors, ...

Using the connected hardhats on a construction site has the unintended benefit of quickly identifying who an infected worker has been in contact with during the Covid-19 pandemic Intelligent hardhat supplier WakeCap says an unintended benefit of its wireless monitoring system is that it can identify people who have come ...

A weekly round up of news relevant to digital construction professionals  Drones are being used to inspect the UAE’s Barakah nuclear power plant, improving workplace safety and reducing the time it takes to conduct inspections. Drones are able to access difficult to reach areas and mean that there is less ...

Injuries and fatalities on the construction site harm reputations, impact profits and delay jobs. Onsite monitoring using IoT will increase as a method to improve worker safety.