TY  - CONF
TI  - Aligning digital safety technologies with lean construction principles
C1  - Singapore, Singapore
C3  - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 34)
SP  - 62
EP  - 73
PY  - 2026
DO  - 10.24928/2026/0178
AU  - Salim, Nelson C.
AU  - Le, Phuong-Linh
AU  - Lin, Jacob J.
AD  - MS Student, Dept. of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan Univ., Taipei City, Taiwan, r13521726@ntu.edu.tw, orcid.org/0009-0005-4440-3017
AD  - Ph.D Student, Dept. of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan Univ., Taipei City, Taiwan, d12521021@ntu.edu.tw, orcid.org/0009-0002-8593-9086
AD  - Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan Univ., Taipei City, Taiwan, jacoblin@ntu.edu.tw, orcid.org/0000-0002-3781-9402
ED  - Hamzeh, Farook
ED  - Poshdar, Mani
ED  - Garcia-Lopez,, Nelly P.
AB  - Digital safety technologies have been increasingly promoted as tools for enhancing construction site operations. While the value of technological innovation has been well established in management functions such as planning, monitoring, and control, its theoretical integration into construction safety management and its contribution to lean construction principles remains underexplored. Existing studies tend to focus on individual technologies or operational outcomes, offering limited insight into how digital safety activities systematically support lean objectives. To address this gap, this study conducts a literature review to develop an interaction matrix that conceptually aligns digital safety activities, defined in a Taiwanese technical guideline, with lean principles. A total of 44 cross-interactions is identified and substantiated by evidence from the literature. The results indicate that achieving lean principles requires a comprehensive digital safety management system, with particular emphasis on the digitalization of site hazard identification. Digital hazard identification is shown to reduce human effort and error-proneness while supporting multiple lean objectives simultaneously. By mapping these interactions, this study provides a foundation for prioritizing digital safety activities and offers directions for future research on the integration of digital technologies and lean construction safety management.
KW  - Lean construction
KW  - lean principles
KW  - digital technologies
KW  - safety.
PB  - 
T2  - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 34)
DA  - 2026/06/22
CY  - Singapore, Singapore
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2487/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2487
N1  - Export Date: 19 June 2026
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -