Personalized and Trust-Aware Health Recommendation Policies for a Construction Workplace

Abstract

Construction workers face workplace risks such as fatigue, heat stress, and other physically demanding conditions that can negatively affect their health and safety. Although monitoring these risks is important, timely and personalized health interventions are also needed to help prevent negative impacts on workers' well-being and productivity. To this end, in this paper, we propose a model to capture the interactions between a trust-aware health recommender system and workers who differ in health and trust sensitivity. Specifically, in our proposed dynamic model, worker health evolves over time, worker trust is affected by both health and recommendation dynamics, and trust in turn affects compliance with future recommendations. Given this model, we characterize the recommender policy, including a health-based recommendation triggering threshold and the recommendation frequency. We do so using both model-based short-horizon control and model-free reinforcement learning. We then investigate how recommendation frequencies are adjusted for different workers to balance their health, productivity, and trust. Our findings provide insight into the design of personalized health recommendation policies in construction workplaces and beyond.