Augmented Hearing of Auditory Safety Cues for Construction Workers: A Systematic Literature Review

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• Personal Author:
  Elelu K ; Le C ; Le T
• Description:
  Safety-critical sounds at job sites play an essential role in construction safety, but hearing capability is often declined due to the use of hearing protection and the complicated nature of construction noise. Thus, preserving or augmenting the auditory situational awareness of construction workers has become a critical need. To enable further advances in this area, it is necessary to synthesize the state-of-the-art auditory signal processing techniques and their implications for auditory situational awareness (ASA) and to identify future research needs. This paper presents a critical review of recent publications on acoustic signal processing techniques and suggests research gaps that merit further research for fully embracing construction workers' ASA of hazardous situations in construction. The results from the content analysis show that research on ASA in the context of construction safety is still in its early stage, with inadequate AI-based sound sensing methods available. Little research has been undertaken to augment individual construction workers in recognizing important signals that may be blocked or mixed with complex ambient noise. Further research on auditory situational awareness technology is needed to support detecting and separating important acoustic safety cues from complex ambient sounds. More work is also needed to incorporate context information into sound-based hazard detection and to investigate human factors affecting the collaboration between workers and AI assistants in sensing the safety cues of hazards. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Hazardous Substances Noise Noise, Occupational Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Acoustic Signals AI Artificial Intelligence Auditory Perception Auditory Signal Processing Auditory Situational Awareness Author Keywords: Artificial Intelligence Construction Industry Construction Safety Hazard Communication Hazard Detection Human Factors Engineering Noise Exposure Sensors Systematic Reviews

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• ISSN:
  0746-9462
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; North Dakota ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 8 ; South Carolina
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  22
• Issue:
  23
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20067786
• Citation:
  Sensors 2022 Dec; 22(23):9135
• Contact Point Address:
  Tuyen Le, Glenn Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences, Clemson University, Lowry Hall, Clemson, SC 29634, USA
• Email:
  tuyenl@clemson.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2023
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  Sensors
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7493f1ab5bfab0630572f3cb71bf3dea5dc71e8edcd39349f47a519698d219eacbf252904ee20bc14d7944eb56afd6f258c639d4e48cd1cbc902c4eefec3def6
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/230042/cdc_230042_DS1.pdf
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