Search Results - "Bhandari, Siddharth"

The Things That Hurt People Are Not the Same as the Things That Kill People: Key Differences in the Proximal Causes of Low- and High-Severity Construction Injuries by Bayona, Arnaldo, Hallowell, Matthew R., Bhandari, Siddharth

“…AbstractThe safety profession has been shaped by the assumption that there is a fixed ratio of low- to high-severity injuries and the notion that injuries of…”
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The Relationship between Work-Related Stressors and Construction Workers’ Self-Reported Injuries: A Meta-Analytic Review by Alqahtani, Bandar Moshabab, Alruqi, Wael, Bhandari, Siddharth, Abudayyeh, Osama, Liu, Hexu

“…Mental health concerns are surging worldwide and workers in the construction industry have been found to be particularly vulnerable to these challenges…”
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Bounds on the Zero-Error List-Decoding Capacity of the q/(q - 1) Channel by Bhandari, Siddharth, Radhakrishnan, Jaikumar

“…Let <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">\mathcal {X}= \{x_{1},x_{2},\ldots, x_{q}\} </tex-math></inline-formula> and let <inline-formula> <tex-math…”
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Making construction safety training interesting: A field-based quasi-experiment to test the relationship between emotional arousal and situational interest among adult learners by Bhandari, Siddharth, Hallowell, Matthew R., Correll, Joshua

“…•A new multimedia simulation-based safety training framework (NIS) is proposed.•NIS increased situational interest (SI) among construction workers.•Increase in…”
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Ideal-theoretic Explanation of Capacity-achieving Decoding by Bhandari, Siddharth, Harsha, Prahladh, Kumar, Mrinal, Sudan, Madhu

“…In this work, we present an abstract framework for some algebraic error-correcting codes with the aim of capturing codes that are list-decodable to capacity,…”
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Influence of safety climate on risk tolerance and risk-taking behavior: A cross-cultural examination by Bhandari, Siddharth, Hallowell, Matthew R.

“…•11,811 surveys were collected from construction workers across 19 countries.•Safety climate has a negative relationship with risk tolerance.•Safety climate…”
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Safety challenges experienced by driver license examiners and related safety measures by Alsharef, Abdullah, Albert, Alex, Bhandari, Siddharth

“…•Driver license examiners are vulnerable to experiencing work-related injuries while testing prospective drivers.•The effort revealed safety challenges that…”
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Decoding Multivariate Multiplicity Codes on Product Sets by Bhandari, Siddharth, Harsha, Prahladh, Kumar, Mrinal, Sudan, Madhu

“…The multiplicity Schwartz-Zippel lemma bounds the total multiplicity of zeroes of a multivariate polynomial on a product set. This lemma motivates the…”
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Methods of safety prediction: analysis and integration of risk assessment, leading indicators, precursor analysis, and safety climate by Hallowell, Matthew R., Bhandari, Siddharth, Alruqi, Wael

“…Construction safety prediction is an emerging field where various forms of information and analytical techniques are used to predict the likelihood or severity…”
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Identifying and Controlling Biases in Expert-Opinion Research: Guidelines for Variations of Delphi, Nominal Group Technique, and Focus Groups by Bhandari, Siddharth, Hallowell, Matthew R

“…AbstractIn construction engineering and management (CEM) research, conducting field studies often is infeasible because of resource constraints, limited access…”
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Effective information collection in incident investigations: A systematic review and narrative synthesis by Thallapureddy, Sreeja, Sherratt, Fred, Hallowell, Matthew, Bhandari, Siddharth

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Emotional Engagement in Safety Training: Impact of Naturalistic Injury Simulations on the Emotional State of Construction Workers by Bhandari, Siddharth, Hallowell, Matthew R

“…AbstractPoor hazard recognition skills and high tolerance for risk are well-known contributing factors to high fatality rates plaguing the construction…”
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Exploring bias in incident investigations: An empirical examination using construction case studies by Thallapureddy, Sreeja, Sherratt, Fred, Bhandari, Siddharth, Hallowell, Matthew, Hansen, Hayley

“…•Getting good information is vital for incident learning, as subsequent stages of learning depend on the quality of the information achieved.•We all are…”
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The influence of spatial cognition and variability of mental workload among construction hazard prevention through design tasks by Hardison, Dylan, Hallowell, Matthew, Littlejohn, Ray, Goodrum, Paul, Bhandari, Siddharth

“…•Format of design information has little effect on mental workload.•Spatial cognitive capabilities do not influence hazard recognition skill.•A series of…”
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Safety Risk Tolerance in the Construction Industry: Cross-Cultural Analysis by Salas, Rico, Hallowell, Matthew, Balaji, Rajagopalan, Bhandari, Siddharth

“…AbstractDisparities in worker risk tolerance may create barriers to implementing safety management systems and improving safety performance. At present, it is…”
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Practical Assessment of Potential Predictors of Serious Injuries and Fatalities in Construction by Oguz Erkal, Elif Deniz, Hallowell, Matthew R, Bhandari, Siddharth

“…AbstractSerious injuries and fatalities (SIF) continue to be an enigmatic problem in the construction industry. Researchers have begun to explore new ways of…”
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The unintended consequences of no blame ideology for incident investigation in the US construction industry by Sherratt, Fred, Thallapureddy, Sreeja, Bhandari, Siddharth, Hansen, Hayley, Harch, Dylan, Hallowell, Matthew R

“…•A No Blame approach to safety assures workers they will not be blamed for accidents should they report and fully cooperate with investigations.•But No Blame…”
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Formal evaluation of construction safety performance metrics and a case for a balanced approach by Oguz Erkal, Elif Deniz, Hallowell, Matthew R., Bhandari, Siddharth

“…•Existing performance metrics should be used in synergy to capture a holistic picture of construction safety.•Construction safety should not keep depending on…”
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On the probabilistic degree of OR over the reals by Bhandari, Siddharth, Harsha, Prahladh, Molli, Tulasimohan, Srinivasan, Srikanth

“…We study the probabilistic degree over ℝ of the OR function on n variables. For ε∈(0,1/3), the ε‐error probabilistic degree of any Boolean function f : {0, 1}n…”
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Modeling the Relationship between Personal Risk Tolerance, Work-Related Risk Tolerance, and Risk-Taking Behavior of Construction Workers by Bhandari, Siddharth, Hallowell, Matthew R, Alruqi, Wael, Salas, Rico

“…AbstractDespite the development and implementation of intensive health and safety training programs, the construction industry still remains one of the most…”
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