- Title
- A futuristic approach to decentralize and authenticate workplace safety records leveraging on blockchain distributed ledger network
- Creator
- Kok, Chiang Liang; Palaniappan, Kavitha
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-96146-2.00002-4
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- There is an escalating demand in the world today to read, store, and manage huge amount of useful data from all sectors of life: ecommerce, traffic conditions, consumer behavior patterns, medical health, and workplace safety records. Hence, a highly efficient system is required in order to store and process the data in a more secured, transparent, and accountable way. Technological advancements have led to the use of high-end equipment and facilities within many industrial sectors and the other side to this story is that, it has also led to an increase in the number of workplace accidents and incidents as workers are not familiar with the pros and cons of the new technology. In this chapter, the proposed approach is to leverage on secure blockchain distributed ledger network to decentralize workplace safety records and to allow the data to be accessed more securely and effectively only by the relevant authorities. Blockchain is certainly a very promising solution as it can deliver a highly resilient architecture and secured distributed ledger by nature. Therefore, all the important workplace safety records such as detailed information pertaining to major accidents, minor accidents, near misses, and occupational health-related issues could be securely stored in a decentralized manner on the blockchain distributed ledger network. When a workplace safety record (minor accident) occurs, the details could be securely translated into the blockchain ledger network and stored permanently. This particular data storage is embedded with a unique cryptographic signature known as hash and could only be retrieved by the relevant authorities, thereby ensuring complete privacy and accountability. However, the general data, that is, how the accident/near miss had happened, the factors that led to such incidents, and the control measures that were put in place to curb their further occurrences could be available to all related parties, without revealing any confidential matter related to the company. This would enable active participation and also facilitate sharing strategies across board with all industries that are functioning in that sector. This would considerably reduce the number of workplace accidents to a significant level and would also enable the government authorities to frame policies and regulations for advanced technologies. Furthermore, if tampering of workplace safety records occurs, all other blockchain nodes would cross-reference with one another and could easily locate the tampered node (safety record). In this way, the distributed ledger network is able to establish an exact and transparent way of tracking the workplace safety records and to prevent cyber-hacking. Lastly, the viewing of any additional safety records (ledger) to the blockchain network would be time-stamped for complete transparency and accountability. In conclusion, our proposed approach is definitely a more cost-effective, transparent, efficient, and organized way than the traditional way of manually managing large data sets of workplace safety records and would also reduce the number of workplace accidents which is on a constant rise in the past few decades.
- Subject
- blockchain; workplace safety; cryptographic; ledger network; digital blocks
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1487247
- Identifier
- uon:52090
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780323961462
- Language
- eng
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