Risk management of falls from height by using the bim platform: a systematic review

Falls are responsible for around 0.646 million deaths per year, representing more than 30% of worker fatalities in the construction industry. Current risk management methods proved not to be effective enough. The objective of this work was to investigate the applicability of the Building Information Modeling (BIM) as a tool for managing risk of falls from height, and investigate the Brazilian and USA standards in order to identify future perspectives for improving algorithms used in such tools. Two separate reviews were conducted by using the PRISMA method. The first review was conducted by searching the Brazilian platform CAPES, databases Scopus and Google Scholar, while the second through searching the Brazilian and USA legislation related to falls from height. The BIM tool its perspective, although currently still very limited. The included studies applied only risk elimination and some engineering and administrative measures, which means that there is still space for improvement. Only few parameters required by the standards were considered by the included studies. Future studies should improve the algorithms for an automatic identification and management of falls from height, leaving the code opened, so that the users from different countries and legislation might appropriate it to their needs.