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Main Authors: Sun, Kailai, Lan, Tianxiang, Goh, Yang Miang, Huang, Yueng-Hsiang
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07094
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author Sun, Kailai
Lan, Tianxiang
Goh, Yang Miang
Huang, Yueng-Hsiang
author_facet Sun, Kailai
Lan, Tianxiang
Goh, Yang Miang
Huang, Yueng-Hsiang
contents There is growing interest in using safety analytics and machine learning to support the prevention of workplace incidents, especially in high-risk industries like construction and trucking. Although existing safety analytics studies have made remarkable progress, they suffer from imbalanced datasets, a common problem in safety analytics, resulting in prediction inaccuracies. This can lead to management problems, e.g., incorrect resource allocation and improper interventions. To overcome the imbalanced data problem, we extend the theory of accident triangle to claim that the importance of data samples should be based on characteristics such as injury severity, accident frequency, and accident type. Thus, three oversampling methods are proposed based on assigning different weights to samples in the minority class. We find robust improvements among different machine learning algorithms. For the lack of open-source safety datasets, we are sharing three imbalanced datasets, e.g., a 9-year nationwide construction accident record dataset, and their corresponding codes.
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spellingShingle Overcoming Imbalanced Safety Data Using Extended Accident Triangle
Sun, Kailai
Lan, Tianxiang
Goh, Yang Miang
Huang, Yueng-Hsiang
Machine Learning
There is growing interest in using safety analytics and machine learning to support the prevention of workplace incidents, especially in high-risk industries like construction and trucking. Although existing safety analytics studies have made remarkable progress, they suffer from imbalanced datasets, a common problem in safety analytics, resulting in prediction inaccuracies. This can lead to management problems, e.g., incorrect resource allocation and improper interventions. To overcome the imbalanced data problem, we extend the theory of accident triangle to claim that the importance of data samples should be based on characteristics such as injury severity, accident frequency, and accident type. Thus, three oversampling methods are proposed based on assigning different weights to samples in the minority class. We find robust improvements among different machine learning algorithms. For the lack of open-source safety datasets, we are sharing three imbalanced datasets, e.g., a 9-year nationwide construction accident record dataset, and their corresponding codes.
title Overcoming Imbalanced Safety Data Using Extended Accident Triangle
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07094