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Occupational Injury Risk Mitigation: Machine Learning Approach and Feature Optimization for Smart Workplace Surveillance

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  • Mohamed Zul Fadhli Khairuddin

    (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia
    Environmental Healthcare Section, Institute of Medical Science Technology, Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Kajang 40300, Selangor, Malaysia)

  • Puat Lu Hui

    (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia)

  • Khairunnisa Hasikin

    (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia
    Centre of Intelligent Systems for Emerging Technology (CISET), Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia)

  • Nasrul Anuar Abd Razak

    (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia)

  • Khin Wee Lai

    (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia)

  • Ahmad Shakir Mohd Saudi

    (Centre of Water Engineering Technology, Water Energy Section, Malaysia France Institute, Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Bangi 43650, Selangor, Malaysia)

  • Siti Salwa Ibrahim

    (Negeri Sembilan State Health Department, Seremban 70300, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia)

Abstract

Forecasting the severity of occupational injuries shall be all industries’ top priority. The use of machine learning is theoretically valuable to assist the predictive analysis, thus, this study attempts to propose a feature-optimized predictive model for anticipating occupational injury severity. A public database of 66,405 occupational injury records from OSHA is analyzed using five sets of machine learning models: Support Vector Machine, K-Nearest Neighbors, Naïve Bayes, Decision Tree, and Random Forest. For model comparison, Random Forest outperformed other models with higher accuracy and F1-score. Therefore, it highlighted the potential of ensemble learning as a more accurate prediction model in the field of occupational injury. In constructing the model, this study also proposed the feature optimization technique that revealed the three most important features; ‘nature of injury’, ‘type of event’, and ‘affected body part’ in developing model. The accuracy of the Random Forest model was improved by 0.5% or 0.895 and 0.954 for the prediction of hospitalization and amputation, respectively by redeveloping and optimizing the model with hyperparameter tuning. The feature optimization is essential in providing insight knowledge to the Safety and Health Practitioners for future injury corrective and preventive strategies. This study has shown promising potential for smart workplace surveillance.

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  • Mohamed Zul Fadhli Khairuddin & Puat Lu Hui & Khairunnisa Hasikin & Nasrul Anuar Abd Razak & Khin Wee Lai & Ahmad Shakir Mohd Saudi & Siti Salwa Ibrahim, 2022. "Occupational Injury Risk Mitigation: Machine Learning Approach and Feature Optimization for Smart Workplace Surveillance," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(21), pages 1-19, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:21:p:13962-:d:954720
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