Safety First: A Fault Tree Expert System for Construction Falls. Volume III: The Knowledge Base

Details

• Personal Author:
  Hadipriono FC ; Vargas CA ; Yoo WH
• Description:
  SAFETY FIRST was developed as an expert system to identify fall safety problems that may result in a fall accident and to investigate the causes of a fall accident that has already occurred. In this volume of the three volume set, construction of the knowledge base of SAFETY FIRST was discussed. This step included developing the user interface, which needed a systematic design of screens displaying the queries prompted to the users. The queries are used to obtain evidence and information that may verify the cause of a fall. The fault tree models were converted into decision trees arranged in tabular form. These decision trees were developed from the fault tree pattern to include the evidence and information about conditions which existed during the fall. Potential users tested the system for efficiency and logic, and experts validated its accuracy, completeness, applicability and how well the system solved a problem. This volume also included a formal evaluation of a representative subsystem of SAFETY FIRST by independent experts and potential users. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Construction-industry Construction-workers NIOSH-Grant Safety-research Traumatic-injuries
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-211
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00231895
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB97-105100
• Citation:
  Construction Laboratory for Automation and System Simulation, Department of Civil Engineering, Ohio State University 1995 Dec; :1-211
• Contact Point Address:
  Civil Engineering Ohio State University 2070 Neil Ave Columbus, OH 43210
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1996
• Performing Organization:
  Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19920301
• Source Full Name:
  Construction Laboratory for Automation and System Simulation, Department of Civil Engineering, Ohio State University
• End Date:
  19950929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1d8d59d5eecaa6e398b8b76ff593aad3b63ed003d19c963db0cb9e4936a26b4c7947da73a02174029e990a0a69e36e7bdb0c7fa989ea876ffc93c8de6c1269a7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/217864/cdc_217864_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 9.19 MB ]