Model-based construction work analysis considering process-related hazards

The identification of job hazards, before they actually occur, is a challenge for the construction work planner as well as for the safety and health coordinator. The high-risk construction sector records the highest number of accidents among different industry sectors. In most cases, safety planning is purely based on checklists and manual description, which are not closely related to the actual and specific construction object. Modern technologies, such as Building Information Modeling (BIM), are offering an object-oriented planning approach toward a project´s lifecycle. This paper presents a research-in-progress project, where the BIM technology has been used to identify object-oriented and process-oriented job safety hazards. Here, the necessary construction processes will be derived from the “to build”-objects in the model. The proposed framework would be able to detect a safety hazard during the early phases of design and planning processes. The scope of research in this paper is limited to safety hazards in solid construction.