Digital safety
How digital technologies can be leveraged to enhance health and safety systems.
Digital Safety explores how digital technologies can be leveraged to enhance health and safety systems. It focuses on several key areas:
- Enhancing Health and Safety Systems: Investigating how digital tools, such as sensors, wearables, and data analytics, can improve monitoring and response to health and safety incidents.
- Improving Safety Management: Examining how digitalization can streamline safety management processes, making them more efficient and effective. This includes the use of software for risk assessments, incident reporting, and compliance tracking.
- Assessing AI Implications: Evaluating the health and safety implications of artificial intelligence, ensuring that AI systems are designed and implemented in ways that prioritize human well-being and safety.
This platform aims to integrate cutting-edge digital solutions to create safer environments and improve overall safety management practices.
Leadership
- UoM Lead: Clara Cheung
- HSE Lead: Helen Balmforth
- HSE Strategic Science Adviser: Derek Morgan
- HSE Science Business Partner: Tracy Read
- HSE ERCL lead: Helen Balmforth
Theme membership
- Akilu Kaltungo (UoM)
- Andre Freitas (UoM)
- Bill Collinge (UoL)
- Clara Cheung (UoM)
- Gordon Crick (HSE)
- Hannah Elhamami (HSE)
- Helen Balmforth (HSE)
- James Murphy (HSE)
- Jo Ellwood (HSE)
- Joseph Januszewski (HSE)
- Kate Jeffrey (HSE)
- Kerry Poole (HSE)
- Michelle Hawkins (HSE)
- Mojgan Hadi Mosleh
- Nicola Greenwood (HSE)
- Obuks Ejohwomu
- Otto Jan Bakker
- Patrick Manu
- Paulo Da Silva Bartolo
- Robert Ataria
- Steve Naylor (HSE)
- Tim Yates (HSE)
- Tracy Read (HSE)
- Derek Morgan (HSE)
Proposals
- Keeping the UK Building Safely (KUBS) mobilising the resources/capabilities of UoM and HSE science division to help enable UK to build safely at speed – a scoping study
- Discovering Safety Programme, which aims to improve global health and safety performance using data and insights.
- TAI named as delivery partner in a £8M NERC grant looking at data integration and sharing awarded to Professor Richard Kingston
- Patrick Manu has secured internal funding from MACE to recruit a PhD to study construction 4.0 and Health and Safety. Akilu Yunusa-Kaltungo, Paulo Bartolo and Clara Cheung are part of the supervisory team
- Awarded the joint Manchester-Melbourne Research Fund 2020 to investigate the confluence of industry 4.0 in construction (i.e., Con 4.0) with occupational safety and health (OSH) in construction.
- Innovate UK Smart Grant– graphene in cement to include H&S and technical aspects.
Publications and awards
Publications
- Women’s health in The BMJ: a data science history
- Semantic Annotation for Improved Safety in Construction Work
- Work relationships, sense of purpose, perceived workload and positive emotions towards work engagement of project professionals
- Improving BIM asset and facilities management processes: a Mechanical and Electrical (M&E) contractor perspective
- Construction Safety Training: what role can virtualized technologies play
Researchers are working on our projects; Keeping the UK Building Safely (KUBS) and Discovering Safety.
Awards
- Winner of the Building SMART Award under the category of Professional Research. This is a highly competitive and prestigious award in the BIM field – DSP Team BIM Risk Library Use Case – Bill Collinge et al.
- NaCTeM announced as the winners of NLP challenge on scholarly discourse and summarisation