The Digital Transformation of Construction Worksite Safety How much added value would AI bring for workers and work-environment safety?
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
Program
Design and construction project management (MPDCM), MSc
Publicerad
2020
Författare
Ghiafehdavoudi, Sara
Vaillant, Bastien
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The aim of this paper is to look into the digital transformation of the construction worksite, more
specifically to the impacts of Artificial Intelligence for workers and work-environment safety. The
scope converges on the more tangible consequences of safety rather than health and focuses on the
impact on safety roles and performance as well as implications for jobs and collaborative dynamics
between construction organizations. The thesis pushes forward the current state of safety
performance and collaborative relationships both in theory as much as in practice and stresses the
shift of performance measurements and success factors for the former as well as the roles and goals
for the latter. The study adopts the abduction method and is theory rich as a result of the novelty of
the field and lack of adequately rich interview participants for the empirical section. Still, the
abductive reasoning method enables rich interpretations of the interview acquired qualitative data
to be derived in the discussion. The study sought out to verify and answer several questions and
statements to which a majority were successfully explored while others require further exploration.
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construction safety , AI , digital transformation , change , digital , construction organization , AI for safety