... interactions and their association with safety attitudes; traditional methods are also subjective and unable to quantify complex nonlinear relationships. This study analysed 301 excavator operator surveys via structural equation modelling, finding muscular fatigue shows the strongest direct association...

...Imran Murtaza, MS; Muhammad Usman Rashid, PhD; Muhammad Asad, PhD The implementation of design for construction safety (DfCS) at the early design phase can proactively identify and address potential hazards in construction projects. By integrating safety considerations into the design process...

...Fred Sherratt, PhD, MCIOB, CBuildE; Peter Wong, PhD, MCIOB; Simon Sherratt Occupational safety, health, and well-being (OSHW) management has fully embraced the Construction 4.0 revolution. Technology now offers myriad solutions to worker OSHW, with a notable interest in the adoption of personal...

...Vigneshkumar Chellappa, PhD; Grzegorz Ginda, PhD Decision making is critical to the success of safety management in construction projects. Due to the simultaneous evaluation of numerous criteria and objectives, multiple-criteria decision making (MCDM) is essential for decision problem solving...

...Bill Hewlett, MA, CEng, FICE, FIET; Fred Sherratt, PhD, MCIOB, CBuildE, MCABE, AMICE; Vikki Edmondson, PhD, MEng, CEng, FICE, MIStructE, FCIHT, FIHE, FCMI, CMgr Designing for safety (DfS) aims to make designs inherently safer to build, operate and maintain, but any residual risk must be controlled...

...Vigneshkumar Chellappa, ME; Angelin Lincy Gunasekaran, ME Design for safety is a prominent means of preventing fatalities and injuries at construction workplaces. This concept has recently gained much attention among construction safety domain researchers. A study was undertaken to explore the key...

... imposes statutory duties on the project client and other project supply chain members. It is the client’s statutory duty to make and implement arrangements for effective management of health and safety (H&S) on the project. It also created two statutory duty holders that the client must appoint...

...D. Walton; S. Drinkwater According to the Statistics of Fatal Injuries 2006/2007, published by the UK Health and Safety Executive, more than 240 people were fatally injured at work in Britain last year, adding to the 40 000 people killed in commercially-related circumstances since 1966...