Integrating Occupational Safety and Health using Digital Technologies: the case of Building Information Modelling

This book is designed to help practitioners understand the growing potential for the use of Building Information Modelling (BIM) to improve Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) outcomes in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations sector. Through a series of cutting-edge practical cases, an international team of researchers and practitioners examine the benefits, barriers, and challenges associated with the introduction of new digital information technologies in OSH settings. Covering training, risk identification, site planning, site monitoring, emergency planning, and accident investigation, the book shows how the use of BIM paves the way for better streamlining of prevention planning, by making it more visible and understandable. The BIM applications presented allow for OSH to be closely linked to production, thus creating the conditions for an effective integration of OSH within the construction processes associated with building, operations, and management.

The book introduces BIM as an enabler of improved OSH performance in construction projects. Precise BIM applications are presented, which are directly related to OSH performance. Backed by research, the BIM applications are presented in a practical manner, making them easily applicable by the construction project professional, as well as informative for the academic researcher.

Manuel Tender (PhD) Adjunct Professor at ISEP-Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto and at ISLA Polytechnic Institute of Management and Technology. Researcher at CONSTRUCT-Gequaltec, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto. CDM Coordinator since 2001. Coordinator of the “Safety and Health” Working Group of Technical Commission 197 (BIM). Lead Researcher at the Digital4OSH Project.

Paul Fuller (ENGD)
Visiting Academic at the School of Architecture, Building and Construction Management of Loughborough University. Session Lecturer in Construction Project Management. Forty years of international experience in both large- and small-scale project environments.

Peter Demian (PhD)
MCIOB. Reader in Loughborough University. Professor of Digital Construction Engineering and Leader of Construction Management Group.

Matej Mihic (PhD)
Assistant Professor at University of Zagreb – Faculty of Civil Engineering in the Department of Construction Management, teaching courses related to construction safety, construction management, and construction technologies. President of the Croatian Association of Health and Safety Coordinators in Construction.

João Pedro Couto (PhD)
Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Minho and member of the C-TAC research centre. Lectures on undergraduate and postgraduate courses related to construction management.

Rania Wehbe (PhD)
Assistant Professor at Junia HEI–Lille Catholic University in France. PhD in civil engineering from Lille University in France. Interested in BIM & Digital Twins studies to improve the quality of life and safety of habitats in buildings and cities. Former president of the ASCE–USEK Branch.

Kitti Ajtayné Karolyfi (PhD)
Assistant Professor at Széchenyi István University in Győr. Teaching activities in the Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, focusing on methodological questions related to BIM and interdisciplinary collaboration between architects and structural designers using BIM.

António Godinho (PhD)
President of ISLA-Gaia (Polytechnic University of Management and Technology) since 1999. Consultant in the computer systems area for several years. Founder of SISQUAL WFM.

Firmino Silva (PhD)
Adjunct Professor at ISLA-Gaia (Polytechnic University of Management and Technology). Head of the Research Unit at ISLA-Gaia, leader of the master's program in Engineering of Technologies and Web Systems. Headed IT departments in various sectors.

Radhlinah Aulin (PhD)
An active lecturer and researcher attached to the Department of Construction Management, Lund University, Sweden.