...Helen Lingard; Rita Peihua Zhang; Chenjunyan Sun; Lyndall Strazdins; Jack Clarke; Stefan Greuter; Tinh Doan; Christine LaBond Purpose Effective communication with supervisors is critical to young and inexperienced workers’ health and safety (H&S). However, few studies focus on trialling...

... in migrant construction worker safety, it provides a PLS-SEM model for enhancing the health and safety of CMCWs. Design/methodology/approach Data collected from a questionnaire survey was analysed using a partial least squares structure equational modelling (PLS-SEM) tailored to CMCWs in New Zealand...

...Qian Zhang; Zhipeng Liu; Siliang Yang Purpose The construction industry is notorious for high risks and accident rates, prompting professionals to adopt emerging technologies for improved construction workers’ health and safety (CWHS). Despite the recognized benefits, the practical implementation...

... practices. Innovation studies BIM Building information modelling Digitalisation Projects-as-practice Social practices Health and safety Data engineering Managing an innovation is as important as the innovation development process itself (Bamel et al., 2023); construction...

... with the potential to impact on their physical and psychological health and safety. Design/methodology/approach A participatory approach was adopted to utilise the knowledge and insights of the target users to inform the digital RPG development. Apprentices and supervisors were interviewed to identify...

...Chike F. Oduoza; Reem Alamri; David Oloke Purpose Deployment of health and safety standards in extremely hazardous work environments such as oil and gas sector, is essential to minimise accidents leaving employees permanently or temporarily incapacitated. The purpose of this research...

... of resilient performance were developed, addressing collaboration between construction companies, slack resources, new health and safety practices, production planning and control, digital technologies, visual management, and organizational culture. These propositions emphasize organizational support...

...Saheed O. Ajayi; Natasha Lister; Jamiu Adetayo Dauda; Adekunle Oyegoke; Hafiz Alaka Purpose Health and safety is an important issue in workplaces, and despite safety procedures becoming more strict, serious accidents are still happening within the UK construction sector. This demonstrates poor...

... performance of building developers. Safety performance framework Self-regulations Health and safety Construction safety performance Building developers Likewise, many studies have been conducted to improve the safety performance of construction in Nigeria (Agwu and Olele, 2014 ; Kadiri et...

... programs in the construction industry. Finally, it identifies new research directions in a neglected but crucial area of workers' health and safety management. Even in developed countries, unhealthy lifestyles such as harmful alcohol consumption, smoking, and the prevalence of overweight and obesity...

... and establishes the potential challenges, as a precursor to a literature review that synthesises the data available to establish an initial COVID-19 evaluation framework to build a rationale for a future series of studies. Findings The research identified these seven challenges: health and safety on-site...

...Sunan Babar Khan; David G. Proverbs; Hong Xiao Purpose Health and safety in small construction firms is often neglected by owners leading to poor health and safety performance and unacceptably high fatality and injury rates. A body of knowledge has established significant links between...

... maintenance (TAM) has attracted much attention in recent years. In addition, health and safety issues have been recognised as a key contributor along with productivity improvement in the LNG industry. This study aims to integrate work posture analysis into value stream mapping to achieve an optimised...

... rights only Design for safety Delphi technique Health and safety Prevention through design Safety in design Voting analytic hierarchy process In many countries, the construction sector has earned the unenviable rank of being amongst the topmost contributors to occupational fatalities...

.... It is well accepted in change management literature, in health research, and in work, health and safety research more broadly that senior management support is a precondition for any work health and safety intervention (Gallagher et al., 2003) including WHPPs (Heinen and Darling, 2009 ; Hymel...

...Susan Morrow; Billy Hare; Iain Cameron Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider design engineers’ perception of health and safety and its impact on their behaviour during design activity. The study presents three types of design engineers each, exhibiting particular tendencies when...

...Helen Lingard; Lance Saunders; Payam Pirzadeh; Nick Blismas; Brian Kleiner; Ron Wakefield Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between the timing with which decisions are made about how to control work health and safety (WHS) risks in construction project (i.e...

...Patrick Manu; Nii Ankrah; David Proverbs; Subashini Suresh Purpose – Despite the established significance of underlying accident causes to health and safety (H&S), and the persistent reporting of the underlying accident causal influence of construction project features (CPFs) which emanate...

... Advisory services Health and safety The high risk nature of construction work, in terms of occupational safety and health (OSH), results in a high proportion of safety advisors being employed in this industry sector (Jones, 2005b). There are frequent interactions between safety advisors...

... Incident causation Construction industry Plant layout Plant safety Health and safety Australia Edwards and Holt (2009b) define plant as “self‐propelled off‐highway machines (such as excavators and dumpers)” (p. 337). Many safety incidents occurring in the construction industry involve...