Design of a construction safety training system using contextual design methodology

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• Personal Author:
  Baldev D
• Description:
  In the U.S., the majority of construction companies are small companies with 10 or fewer employees (BLS, 2004). The fatality rate in the construction industry is high, indicating a need for implementing safety training to a greater extent. This research addresses two main goals: to make recommendations and design a safety training system for small construction companies, and to use Contextual Design to design the training system. Contextual Design was developed by Holtzblatt (Beyer and Holtzblatt, 1998) in an effort to address the challenge of designing new systems. Ethnographic in nature, the Contextual Design methodology requires field data collection, requirements analysis, model building, visioning and story boarding, and prototyping. A sample of 12 participants consisting of 7 tradespersons, 3 forepersons, and 2 owners/ managers, was selected for data collection. The data was analyzed based on the Contextual Design approach and a training system prototype was designed. The results of this study are recommendations for safety in small construction companies, a low fidelity paper prototype of the training system, and recommendations on future use of Contextual Design for developing training systems. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Men Morbidity Mortality Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Staff Development Women
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Construction Safety Construction Construction-industry Contextual Design Humans Morbidity-rates Mortality-rates Safety-education Safety-measures Systems Training User-Centered Design

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• Publisher:
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Dissertation
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-149
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20043454
• Citation:
  Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2006 Aug; :1-149
• Email:
  smithjack@vt.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• Performing Organization:
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20040915
• Source Full Name:
  Design of a construction safety training system using contextual design methodology
• End Date:
  20100630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:21a6a5635aaa5b35c5d14536704caf18b30cbac93314582de3d1f6f6c14e317af0cbe7281b99f1af5c9c19ece351e42627ad05eaac759d18941d944ca2166010
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/195345/cdc_195345_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.85 MB ]