Predicting movements of onsite workers and mobile equipment for enhancing construction site safety

Tens of thousands of time-loss injuries and deaths are annually reported from the construction sector, and a high percentage of them are due to the workers being struck by mobile equipment on sites. In order to address this site safety issue, it is necessary to provide proactive warning systems. One critical part in such systems is to locate the current positions of onsite workers and mobile equipment and also predict their future positions to prevent immediate collisions. This paper proposes novel Kalman filters for predicting the movements of the workers and mobile equipment on the construction sites. The filters take the positions of the equipment and workers estimated from multiple video cameras as input, and output the corresponding predictions on their future positions. Moreover, the filters could adjust their predictions based on the worker or equipment's previous movements. The effectiveness of the filters has been tested with real site videos and the results show the high prediction accuracy of the filters

The burden of asbestos-related disease in British Columbia : final workshop report, May 14, 2010 - Vancouver, British Columbia

This report describes the results of a workshop that brought together a diverse group of stakeholders interested in, or affected by, asbestos-related disease to share current research activity on asbestos-related disease, and to discuss ways of improving awareness and prevention of asbestos-related disease in BC.Non UBCMedicine, Faculty ofPopulation and Public Health (SPPH), School ofUnreviewedFacultyResearche

Annual report : 2009-2010

"Over the past year, the WorkSafeBC-CHSPR Partnership team has been continuing to develop cutting-edge and policy-relevant research on work-related health in British Columbia. By combining WorkSafeBC data with the population-wide data available through Population Data BC, we are gaining important insights into the health, social, and economic effects of work-related illness and injury. This year has also brought considerable success to our trainees, who have published their Partnership-supported research in international journals, and have won awards at national conferences. In addition, we have been very active translating the results of our research to a variety of stakeholders through workshops, meetings, and the news media." -CHSPR websiteNon UBCMedicine, Faculty ofPopulation and Public Health (SPPH), School ofUnreviewedFacultyResearche