HDC Hyundai Development Company Advances Smart Safety Technology at Construction Sites

Expansion of the Safety and Health Smart Integrated Platform SAFETY-I

HDC Hyundai Development Company is accelerating the digital transformation of safety management by utilizing an integrated safety and health platform at construction sites starting this year.

HDC Hyundai Development Company has officially launched and is actively utilizing SAFETY-I 2.0, a smart safety platform. By using this platform, the simplification and digitization of safety and health documents are possible. (Photo by HDC Hyundai Development Company)

HDC Hyundai Development Company is enhancing its safety management system by using the safety and health smart integrated platform SAFETY-I. This platform integrates safety management system tasks such as risk assessment, work plans, pre-work permits, and safety training with the management of smart equipment including CCTV integrated control, access management, and confined space management. While developing SAFETY-I 2.0, HDC Hyundai Development Company conducted a one-year risk assessment. They formed a smart safety expert group and directly applied and tested the platform at seven sites.

The system includes a function to collect and analyze a database related to the strengthened Serious Accident Punishment Act (Serious Accident Punishment Act). It also has features that allow team leaders to listen to, share, and disseminate workers’ opinions such as risk assessments.

Management of confined spaces during vulnerable periods such as thawing season, rainy season, and winter is also made easy. Instead of people, the measurement device called the ‘Smart Safety Ball’ is deployed in confined space zones at construction sites to measure oxygen concentration and levels of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide. Through these results, it is possible to check in advance whether work can be conducted safely.

HDC Hyundai Development Company is also focusing on routine safety management using smart safety equipment. To eliminate blind spots in safety management, they have installed a CCTV integrated control center. Fixed and mobile CCTVs are placed in high-risk work areas to minimize safety management gaps and monitor risk factors.

Wearable airbags to prevent worker fall accidents have been introduced at all sites. This device detects a fall accident through sensors and inflates the airbag. Simultaneously with inflation, location transmission and emergency calls are made, enabling rapid evacuation.

Intelligent video detection cameras that recognize only people are mandatorily installed on construction equipment such as forklifts and excavators, which have a high risk of accidents, to prevent collisions and entrapment accidents. They are also promoting a plan to mandate the installation of intelligent video surveillance cameras on equipment and vehicles such as dump trucks and ready-mix concrete trucks.

HDC Hyundai Development Company stated, "We will continue to establish system advancement based on strengthening digital transformation (DX) in the safety management sector and eliminate blind spots in safety management by prioritizing technological safety."