Agent Simulation Using Path Telemetry for Modeling COVID-19 Workplace Hazard and Risk

David Beymer, Vandana Mukherjee, Anup Pillai, Hakan Bulu, Vanessa Burrowes, James Kaufman, Ed Seabolt

2024

Abstract

We present a cloud native agent based simulation of disease transmission hazard and risk in a model of a particular workplace. When combined with epidemiological data for employee home counties, the simulation can be used to measure the effect of interventions and building policies on occupational hazard and risk from an infectious disease, and to compare that hazard and risk to the average risk to the employees in their home counties based on current outbreak data. We demonstrate this for two particular interventions, varying the number of employees allowed to work onsite, and enabling/disabling alternate routes at choke points such as cafeteria checkpoints. We discuss how occupational hazard and risk depends strongly on the details of workplace layout and policies and propose how the current simulation (and tools like it) can be used to evaluate policies and procedures for return to work.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Beymer D., Mukherjee V., Pillai A., Bulu H., Burrowes V., Kaufman J. and Seabolt E. (2024). Agent Simulation Using Path Telemetry for Modeling COVID-19 Workplace Hazard and Risk. In Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: BIOINFORMATICS; ISBN 978-989-758-688-0, SciTePress, pages 417-428. DOI: 10.5220/0012322400003657

in Bibtex Style

@conference{bioinformatics24,
author={David Beymer and Vandana Mukherjee and Anup Pillai and Hakan Bulu and Vanessa Burrowes and James Kaufman and Ed Seabolt},
title={Agent Simulation Using Path Telemetry for Modeling COVID-19 Workplace Hazard and Risk},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: BIOINFORMATICS},
year={2024},
pages={417-428},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012322400003657},
isbn={978-989-758-688-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: BIOINFORMATICS
TI - Agent Simulation Using Path Telemetry for Modeling COVID-19 Workplace Hazard and Risk
SN - 978-989-758-688-0
AU - Beymer D.
AU - Mukherjee V.
AU - Pillai A.
AU - Bulu H.
AU - Burrowes V.
AU - Kaufman J.
AU - Seabolt E.
PY - 2024
SP - 417
EP - 428
DO - 10.5220/0012322400003657
PB - SciTePress