**1. Introduction**

Jobsite safety management is very important subject special in construction management. Managing jobsite safety-related inspection information plays an important role in the view of safety management. Managing jobsite safety management effectively is extremely diffi‐ cult owing to various participants and environments in construction jobsite. With the advent of the Internet, web-based information management solutions enable information dissemi‐ nation and information sharing at the construction jobsite. Generally, jobsite safety-related managers and engineers require access to the important check locations to handle inspection work in construction jobsite. However, jobsite safety-related managers and engineers gener‐ ally use sheets of paper to handle various types of inspection checklists and entry check re‐ cord. Consequently, there is serious rework progress regarding the data capture and entry in inspection progress. Furthermore, current desktops and notebooks are not suitable for in‐ spection work at the jobsite because of problems in transportability.

In order to solve the above problems, this study presents a novel system called Mobile RFID-based Safety Inspection Management (RFIDSIM) system for jobsite safety manage‐ ment and providing safety inspection information sharing platform among all participants using web technology and RFID technology. The RFIDSIM is then applied in a construction commerce project jobsite in Taiwan to verify our proposed methodology and demonstrate the effectiveness of safety inspection progress in construction jobsite. The combined results demonstrate that, a RFIDSIM system can be a useful web safety inspection management platform by utilizing the RFID approach and web technology.

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Integrating Near field communication (NFC) technology and mobile devices such as NFC Smartphone, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) scanning and data entry mechanisms, can help improve the effectiveness and convenience of information flow in the safety inspec‐ tion management. The combined results demonstrate that, an RFIDSIM system can be a use‐ ful mobile RFID-based jobsite safety management platform by utilizing the NFC and web technologies. With appropriate modifications, the RFIDSIM system can be utilized at any jobsite inspection and management progress for jobsite safety management divisions or sup‐ pliers in support of the RFIDSIM system.

spond to the entire jobsite safety management network. This study develops Mobile RFIDbased Safety Inspection Management (RFIDSIM) system to improve efficiency and costeffectiveness of jobsite safety management, improve practical communication among participants, and increase flexibility in terms of service delivery and response times. RFID‐ SIM system is a web-based system for effectively integrating managers, safety staff members and relative members, to enhance the jobsite safety management in the construction. Utiliz‐ ing smartphone with NFC technologies can extend RFIDSIM systems from offices to jobsite safety checkpoints locations. Data collection efficiency can also be enhanced using RFID-en‐ abled smartphone with NFC technology to enter and edit data on the jobsite safety check‐ points locations. By using web technology and RFID-enabled smartphone with NFC technologies, the RFIDSIM system for the management division has tremendous potential to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of information respond and management, thus streamlining services jobsite safety management processes with other participants. The por‐ tal and RFID-enabled smartphone with NFC technology enable safety staff members to up‐ date data from the jobsite safety checkpoints locations and immediately upload it to the system; project managers can receive inspection information and make better decisions re‐ garding future jobsite safety management and control. The main purposes of this study in‐ clude (1) developing a framework for a mobile jobsite safety inspection system; (2) applying such a system that integrates RFID-enabled smartphone with NFC technology to increase the efficiency of safety inspection data collection in the jobsite, and (3) designing a webbased portal for jobsite safety management and control, providing real-time information and wireless communication between jobsite office and jobsite safety checkpoints locations. Figure 1 illustrates solutions used in a polite test utilized RFIDSIM system in Taiwan con‐ struction jobsite. With appropriate modifications, the RFIDSIM system can be utilized at any

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jobsite safety inspection and management application in construction.

**Figure 1.** RFIDSIM System Framework Overview
