TY - JOUR PY - 2023// TI - A holistic evaluation of ergonomics application in health, safety, and environment management research for construction workers JO - Safety science A1 - Liao, Longhui A1 - Liao, Kuian A1 - Wei, Nana A1 - Ye, Yuehua A1 - Li, Linhui A1 - Wu, Zezhou SP - e106198 EP - e106198 VL - 165 IS - N2 - The construction industry is one of the industries with worst safety records. With the increasing application of ergonomics, health, safety, and environment (HSE) management of construction workers has been improved. However, a thorough evaluation of ergonomics application in HSE management research for construction workers remains unavailable. This study aims to fill this gap by evaluating relevant peer-reviewed journal papers published from 2000 to 2021 to ascertain the status of this research area and identify future directions. After a literature search in Scopus and Web of Science and careful manual screening, a total of 252 articles were identified. The papers were analyzed in terms of contributing journals, prominent scholars, and critical articles as well as keyword co-occurrence, burst detection, and term clustering. A conceptual framework linking five research themes (ergonomic interventions, ergonomic training, ergonomic risk factors identification and evaluation, ergonomic posture recognition, and physiological monitoring) into corresponding future research directions was proposed based on a qualitative evaluation. The findings of this study provide useful references for future application of ergonomics in the enhanced HSE management of construction workers.
Language: en
LA - en SN - 0925-7535 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106198 ID - ref1 ER -