Exploring construction workers' attention and awareness in diverse virtual hazard scenarios to prevent struck-by accidents

• DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106526
• Publication Date: 2024-04-06T17:25:16Z
• Authors: Rahat Hussain; Syed Farhan Alam ...; Akeem Pedro; Heejae Lee; Chansik Park
• Keywords: Vigilance (psychology); Situation Awareness; Safety behaviors; Alertness

Repetitive tasks in construction reduce workers' attentiveness of hazards on sites. This decline can be influenced by their situation awareness level. However, research the relationship between and is scarce safety domain. study employs eye-tracking techniques to investigate how visual attention changes due variations levels. A virtual reality-based experiment was conducted evaluate level individual workers examine its with towards different using global assessment technique linear regression analysis. The experimental findings reveal that overall trend allocating toward declined over time. Furthermore, varied depending levels type hazardous condition. Throughout experiment, group a low failed sustain vigilance as effectively high awareness. outcomes this will help trainers understand behavior time and, thus mitigate risk accidents owing inattentiveness at job