The Application of BIM-Based OHSMS Information Systems to Improve Safety Performance Ayu Herzanita 1* , Yusuf Latief 1 , Fatma Lestari 2 1 Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Depok 16424, West Java, Indonesia 2 Occupational Health & Safety Department, Faculty of Public Health Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Depok 16424, West Java, Indonesia Corresponding Author Email: ayu.herzanita91@ui.ac.id https://doi.org/10.18280/ijsse.120104 ABSTRACT Received: 29 December 2021 Accepted: 20 January 2022 The accidents recorded during university construction projects usually affect the safety performance of the institution. This indicates it is important to recognize the hazards and construction risks at the design stage in order to have an optimal safety plan. Moreover, the university area has several organizations involved in the implementation of Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems (OHSMS). Therefore, there is a need to develop the OHSMS information system to accommodate the role of the parties involved and to disseminate information and communication more effectively. This study was conducted to develop a WBS and BIM-based safety plan for the OHSMS information systems to improve the safety performance using the case study method. The result showed that the WBS is the basic constituent of the safety plan integrated with the BIM to visualize the project in real terms in order to ensure easier identification of hazards and risks. The process involved building data security information in BIM to develop web- based information systems and the BIM-based OHSMS information system developed is expected to improve safety performance in the university area. Keywords: safety plan, WBS, BIM, safety performance 1. INTRODUCTION Universities are spacious areas with several facilities and unique workplaces which have different potential hazards and risks [1]. Most of the activities conducted are susceptible to hazards with subsequent effects on occupational safety and health of people on the property [2-4]. The existence of several occupational accidents and diseases in these universities led to the implementation of Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems (OHSMS) [5]. This is considered important due to several accidents usually experienced which make a university environment an unsafe place to study [6] even though these institutions are obliged to ensure the health, safety, and well-being of all students, lecturers, executives, and anyone working on campus [7]. The potential hazards and risks are often recorded in laboratory activities to have caused chemical explosions, radiation, as well as physical and biological exposure [1, 3, 8]. This led to the focus of most previous studies concerning work accidents in universities on laboratory activities [3-5, 9-11]. Some other examples of hazards include fire [3, 12, 13], construction works [1], and natural disaster [14, 15]. The poor application of OHSMS in higher education is caused by the perception that universities are safe and comfortable environments to conduct academic activities [16]. This assumption prevents the climate and culture of safety in the formation of these institutions [6]. Meanwhile, the lack of safety knowledge causes OHS managers to be unaware of potential hazards, emergency response, risk control for occupational accidents and diseases, and the use of PPE [5, 16- 19]. One of the causes of accidents in universities is construction works which subsequently affect safety performance. This implies there is a need for good communication and information sharing strategy between those involved in the university and project management [19, 20]. Some of the factors observed to be causing construction work accidents in universities include weak safety policies, poor risk management, weak supervision, inadequate project management skills, design errors and construction methods, errors in selecting contractors/subcontractors, lack of understanding of construction safety at the university management level which causes lack of supervision, unsafe behavior, and a lack of technological innovation during the implementation of construction safety strategies [19-21]. Universitas Indonesia (UI) is one of the largest campuses in Indonesia and the main problems associated with the implementation of OHSMS in its environment include inadequate communication between OHSMS managers from both the university and faculty levels, lack of an optimal system for documenting incidents and accidents, and the existence of third parties or contractors that fail to report incidents/accidents in their workplace. Moreover, construction work has been discovered to be one of the major contributors to the fatality figure recorded in the university environment. Examples of these include the killing of construction workers at the Pusgiwa building by lightning in 2018 and the collapse of the Menwa building roof during renovation which injured 3 workers in 2016. It was also discovered from the data compiled by PUPR (2016) that the construction industry has the largest number of accidents. ILO data also estimated that at least 60,000 fatal accidents were recorded at construction International Journal of Safety and Security Engineering Vol. 12, No. 1, February, 2022, pp. 31-38 Journal homepage: http://iieta.org/journals/ijsse 31