.... Regardless of the legal infraction to an individual, the cost of a serious incident could send most companies bankrupt, which would impact the sub-contracted operatives directly. Although, it is an established procedure in tendering that sub-contractors submit a safe system of work with their tender bid...

... and Borcherding, 1986), which characterises most construction projects. By providing empirical data, the paper also contributes to the knowledge of sub-contractors’ practices, something that is little researched (Arditi and Chotibhongs, 2005), despite around 70 per cent of the construction project being...