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Abstract—The safety problem is still a concern in the
construction industry, and near-miss management has become
one of the most important practices to improve construction
safety. Despite good intentions, problems with near-miss
management emerged. These included: a limited reporting rate
of near misses, information fraud, the risk of being distorted or
lost, and insufficient information sharing among construction
stakeholders. These issues have an adverse impact on the
effectiveness of near-miss management. Blockchain has the
potential to be a reliable platform for near-miss management
due to its decentralization, immutability, transparency, and
autonomous enforcement of agreements with smart contracts.
However, there has been limited investigation into the
blockchain’s possibilities in near-miss management. To bridge
this gap, this paper proposed a blockchain-enabled conceptual
framework for near-miss management. The challenges of
near-miss management and the potential of blockchain were
discussed. An overall conceptual framework was created, which
could help to record near-miss information in an immutable,
transparent, traceable, and secure way.
Index Terms—Blockchain, near-miss management,
construction safety, construction industry
Pan Zhang and Raymond Yiu Yin Lee are with the Department of
Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong
Kong.
Ivan W. H. Fung is with School of Civil Engineering and Geomatics,
Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China.
*Correspondence: ivanfungwinghong@gmail.com (I.W.H.F.)
Cite: Pan Zhang, Ivan W. H. Fung*, and Raymond Yiu Yin Lee, "A Blockchain-Enabled Conceptual Framework for Near-Miss Management in the Construction Industry," International Journal of Innovation, Management and Technology vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 102-107, 2023.
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