Listening to the Workforce: Measuring Construction Worker Safety Attitudes from Social Media Discourse Using LLMs
Researchers have developed a new framework called CSAF to measure construction worker safety attitudes from social media. This framework, which includes an eight-dimensional structure and an operational codebook, was applied to Reddit posts from the r/Construction community. To scale the analysis, CSAF was operationalized into an LLM classifier that demonstrated high accuracy in reproducing expert human coding and maintained its performance when transferred to a different trade community. AI
IMPACT Provides a scalable method for analyzing worker attitudes, potentially leading to targeted safety interventions.