Evaluating the Use of 360° Video Technology to Monitor Workers’ Unsafe Behaviour in the Construction Industry

The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of 360° video technology to monitor the unsafe behaviour of workers in the construction industry. To achieve this, a survey questionnaire was designed and distributed to participants working in the South African construction industry. The study's findings outline how an integrated video processing system and safety hazard factors will improve the monitoring of unsafe behaviour among construction workers. Additionally, the results showed that using 360° video technology could facilitate monitoring possible safety hazard factors, including failure to wear personal protective equipment (PPE), entering a risky area, and disobeying safety procedures. Therefore, in real-time monitoring, 360° technology would mitigate safety hazards. Reducing the safety hazards in real-time monitoring would assist in decreasing the unsafe behaviour of workers, which commonly results in accidents on construction sites. It is recommended that more research should be conducted to discover how video-processing technologies could be used to monitor workers’ unsafe behaviour on actual construction sites.