Modular integrated construction (MiC) is transforming the construction industry by offering a variety of benefits that include: reduced project timelines, increased efficiency, and improved sustainability. Despite the wide range of benefits offered by MiC, it is essential not to ignore the safety aspect. Implementing advanced technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI),Machine Learning (ML), video analytics,IoT, etc.in MiC projects can significantly help in mitigating the safety risks, protect the workforce, as well as ensure smooth execution of projects.

This blog aims at exploring the various benefits that companies can incur by utilising technology to enhance safety in their MiC projects:

• Real-time Safety Monitoring & Risk Assessment: The construction safety software allows safety officers to monitor their jobsite in real-time and identify even the minutest of safety non-compliance prevailing in the jobsite, ranging from PPE non-compliances to danger zone intrusion and fall from height. By continuously monitoring these parameters, safety managers can promptly identify potential risks, and take preventive actions, ensuring a safer work environment for the workforce.

• MiC Modules Free-Fall Detection &Alert:Implementing workplace safety software enables safety officers to detect and alertMiC modules falling from overhead tower crane during the lifting, transportation and installation phases. Moreover, it also allows them to identify even minor slipping incident and near misses during the lifting process.

• Tower Crane Lifting Zone Safety: Safer tower crane operations are crucial to ensure safety during MiC operations as tower crane plays a crucial role in MiC. Using video analytics for construction safety enables stakeholders to monitor various aspects of tower crane operations and detect various safety non-compliances like, operator’s distraction, worker’s lifting zone intrusion, worker-object-machine collision and so on. Further, using AIoT solutions, technical issues like brake failures can also be detected. Thus, by using advanced technologies, stakeholders can ensure holistic tower crane lifting zone safety in their MiC jobsites.

• Improved Communication & Collaboration: Technology can play a crucial role in improving communication & collaboration among different levels of stakeholders in MiC projects. With the help of digital works supervision system (DWSS) like viHUB, teams get a single platform to efficiently exchange information, report incidents, as well as access safety guidelines and more. This streamlined communication further enables quick responses, immediate updates and improved coordination – minimizing the probability of accidents and improvement in overall jobsite safety.

• Real-time Alerts: Applying smart construction management software offers the stakeholders an added benefit of dangerous situation alert system that sends out instant alerts as soon as any safety non-compliance is detected by the AI cameras. This dangerous situation alert system acts as a “warning system” notifying the workers as well as remote and on-site stakeholders of the dangerous situation so that immediate actions can be taken to prevent accidents in the MiC jobsite.

Thus, technology has the power to transform safety practices in MiC projects, and it is this power of technology that viAct has been leveraging to ensure holistic Modular Integrated Construction (MiC) safety to create a secure working environment for construction workers.   

Also Read:

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• How to Prevent Falls from Height with AI Video Analytics?