Integrating Work Health and Safety into Construction Project Management – PDF

This eBook, titled Integrating Work Health and Safety into Construction Project Management (PDF), delves into the methods of combining organizational, technological, and cultural strategies for construction project management to produce sustained health and safety (H&S) improvements. The book explores safety and design practices, work organization, workforce engagement, and learning, and offers ideas for systemic change.

Integrating Work Health and Safety into Construction Project Management addresses the best approach to achieve safety in design by adopting a stakeholder management approach. The book provides guidance on driving H&S improvements through supply chain integration, responsible procurement, and project management best practices. It also analyzes the components of culture for health and safety and focuses on the development of a cultural maturity model. The eBook examines the potential to enhance H&S through work conditions that promote a positive work-life balance for the workers. Furthermore, it covers how advanced technologies and the application of health informatics techniques can aid real-time analysis and improvement of H&S in the construction industry. Finally, the book looks at the benefits of engaging workers and using their tacit H&S knowledge to inform work processes.

This valuable eBook features a diverse range of industry case studies and provides new ways of thinking about H&S. It puts emphasis on technological, organizational, and cultural integration. The collective analysis from a broad-ranging 10-year program of collaborative research is detailed. Written from a multidisciplinary perspective by an internationally recognized research team from the engineering, construction/project management, social sciences, and psychology, Integrating Work Health and Safety into Construction Project Management is an excellent resource for academics and researchers studying construction H&S, as well as postgraduates taking construction project management and H&S courses. The book is also suitable for consultants, policy advisors, construction project managers, and H&S professionals.