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“Safety on the scale 2025: Insights of the field construction” is the first security report supported in Hammertech data. The findings from the analysis of more than 75,000 security incidents registered on the Hammertech platform between 2018 and 2024.
The report found that three areas of security or mechanisms of injury represent more than 60% of the incidents at workplaces. Hitting objects with a part of the body accounted for 33% of reports. Being affected by moving objects, such as the crane booms, accounted for almost 17% of the injuries reported and almost 13% of the incidents involved that the workers who reported fall at the same level.
“Understanding how injuries are produced, not just what injuries occur, can provide a stronger basis for directed controls, adjust labor practices and involve teams in prevention strategies,” the report authors wrote.
Mike Gloria, a security manager of Power Construction in Chicago, says that security reports, which record the activities carried out when injuries, adds a context to contractor policies.
“What are the main performance indicators we should look at in the industry, rather than in Osha rates numbers or anything. There is always more information in the background,” he said.
Gloria explains that while the power pores about your own security data for information you can get from your jobs, the largest data based on Hammertech users is more robust. He said that Power records the time of the day of incidents and trends, but the data show no trend related to the time of day.
“There is only the delta between the least frequent time of the day and the most common is only, I think 19, incidents on our entire data scale,” said Gloria. “In certain incidents there is no trend about certain incidents.”
The scale security report found that in its full data set of tens of thousands of incidents registered in various regions and types of projects, more injuries are recorded at 9 am than at any other time of the day.
“This calendar is generally located after the launch of the site, when the crews are mobilized, the work has increased and the early planning is giving way to physical tasks. In many regions, it also coincides with the first scheduled breaks,” according to the report.
Andrew Barron, Melbourne, Hammertech, in Australia products, says the report data provide a reference line for contractor security leaders to focus policy and better understand what is happening in their places.
“We as an industry, construction as a security group of professionals and us as a seller, we think that there is a great opportunity if we can have so much confidence in our data, to begin to apply artificial intelligence through this data set to bring some of these findings to the hands of the platform workers, so it is an effect that we will continue to evolve.”
