Evaluation of a digital platform for capturing and sharing occupational health and safety videos among construction workers

Summary

The research examined a novel approach to capturing and representing important health and safety information in video format and reproducing and sharing this video content on a digital platform.

Workers contributed to scripting, filming and producing video content that captured their tacit knowledge about how to work safely.

The research showed the videos were an effective way to communicate health and safety information to construction workers. Further, involving workers in making video content helped to identify gaps between work as imagined and work as done, that could then be addressed by redesigning construction work sequences to make them safer.

Team

• Helen Lingard
• Sarah Pink
• Ruwini Edirisinghe
• James Harley

Partners

• Department of State Development Business and Innovation (Vic) (in partnership with CodeSafe Solutions)

Publications

• Report: Using digital technology to share health and safety knowledge: An evaluation of the CodeSafe system
• LINGARD, H., EDIRISINGHE, R., HARLEY, J. and BROADHURST, D., (2015), Utilising workers' tacit health and safety knowledge to produce inherently safer work processes: an evaluation of the CodeSafe system, in Proceedings of the 2015 Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors annual conference (RICS COBRA AUBEA 2015), Sydney, Australia, 8-10 July 2015, pp. 1-8.

Peer-reviewed papers/outputs

• PINK, S. LINGARD, H. & HARLEY, J., (2017), Refiguring creativity in virtual work: the digital-material construction site, New Technology, Work and Employment, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, United Kingdom, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 12-27 ISSN: 1468-005X
• EDIRISINGHE, R. & LINGARD, H., (2016), Exploring the potential for using video to communicate safety information to construction workers: case studies of organizational use, Construction Management and Economics, 34 (6). pp. 366-376.
• PINK, S., LINGARD, H. & HARLEY, J., (2016), Digital pedagogy for safety: the construction site as a collaborative learning environment, Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy, 1: 5. doi:10.1186/s40990-016-0007-y.
• LINGARD, H., PINK, S., HARLEY, J. & EDIRISINGHE, R., (2015), Looking and learning: Using participatory video to improve health and safety in the construction industry, Construction Management and Economics, 33 (9), 741-752.