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GIFTS: It’s Time to Start with ‘A Safety Moment’

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ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

Location

State College,, Pennsylvania

Publication Date

March 30, 2023

Start Date

March 30, 2023

End Date

April 12, 2023

Page Count

4

DOI

10.18260/1-2--45071

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https://peer.asee.org/45071

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98

Paper Authors

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John I Messner Pennsylvania State University

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Dr. Messner is the Director of the Computer Integrated Construction (CIC) Research Program at Penn State and a Professor of Architectural Engineering. He specializes in Building Information Modeling (BIM), digital twin, and immersive technology research.

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Ryan Solnosky Pennsylvania State University Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-5214-2102

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Ryan Solnosky is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Architectural Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University at University Park. Dr. Solnosky has taught courses for Architectural Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Pre-Major Freshman.

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Abstract

A Professional Engineer (PE) is to hold paramount the health and safety of the public. This raises the question regarding how we develop students to both be aware of safe practices, but more importantly, gain a desire for life-long learning about health and safety topics. In many engineering programs, they cover safety through laboratory safety instruction, and possibly discussions in design courses and during ethics discussions. While these are valuable activities, we have been experimenting with an approach to develop a classroom safety culture that will hopefully translate into their professional practice. We have been doing so by emphasizing the importance of safety, every class, every meeting, through a brief Safety Moment. These safety moments are based on building construction safety briefings that happen daily on a job site or in project meetings. Our safety moments are scoped towards onsite job safety, design safety to prevent failures, and other educationally fun safety moments for life. Each class starts with a short five-minute maximum moment in the form of an online game such as Kahoot!, slides, videos, or even what-if scenarios. Our application domain is in architectural engineering, but the context can be expanded for any engineering domain; both large and small classes. The paper will describe how we select topics, deliver safety moments, and students’ opinions from student evaluation comments.

Messner, J. I., & Solnosky, R. (2023, March), GIFTS: It’s Time to Start with ‘A Safety Moment’ Paper presented at ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023, State College,, Pennsylvania. 10.18260/1-2--45071

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