Construction Safety, Health and Well-being in the COVID-19 era (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Manu, Patrick; Hadikusumo, Bonaventura H. W.; Abreu Saurin, Tarcisio; Emuze, Fidelis; Yunusa-Kaltungo, Akilu; Cheung, Clara

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edited book presents a significant and timely contribution to our understanding of a broad range of issues pertaining to COVID-19 and its relationship to occupational safety, health and well-being (OSHW) in the global construction industry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000927399
• Artikelnr.: 68517769

Autorenporträt

Dr Patrick Manu is a Reader in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering at The University of Manchester. He has expertise in construction management research, especially in occupational safety and health (OSH). He co-led an international initiative in conjunction with Professor Fidelis Emuze, Professor Tarcisio Abreu Saurin, and Professor Bonaventura Hadikusumo, to publish the first edited book on construction health and safety in developing countries, which won the 2019 Taylor & Francis Outstanding Book and Digital Product Award within the best monograph in engineering category. Dr Clara Cheung is a project management professional (PMP) and Lecturer in Project Management in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, The University of Manchester. She has expertise in construction management and organisational behaviour research, especially in occupational health, safety and well-being. Dr Akilu Yunusa-Kaltungo is a Senior Lecturer in Reliability and Maintenance Engineering in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering (MACE), The University of Manchester (UoM). He has research expertise in operational reliability, safety and health management, industrial maintenance and asset management. He has recently served as the principal investigator for industrial safety research projects funded by Lloyds Register Foundation (LRF) as well as the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Professor Fidelis Emuze is Professor and Head of the Department of Built Environment at the Central University of Technology, Free State, South Africa. Construction research in lean construction, health and safety, supply chain management, and sustainability constitutes the main research interests of Professor Emuze. He is a National Research Foundation (NRF) C rated researcher who has published over 250 research outputs in the last eight years. Professor Emuze is the editor of Value and Waste in Lean Construction (published by Routledge), Valuing People in Construction (published by Routledge), and co-editor of Construction Health and Safety in Developing Countries (published by Routledge). He is the author of Construction Safety Pocketbook for South Africa (published by Sun Media). Professor Tarcisio Abreu Saurin is an Associate Professor at the Industrial Engineering Department of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). He has a PhD in Industrial Engineering (2002), a MS in Construction Management (1997), and a BS in Civil Engineering (1994). He was a visiting professor at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation at Macquarie University (2018), and at the University of Salford, UK (2012). His main research interests are related to the modelling and management of complex socio-technical systems, resilience engineering, safety management, lean production, and performance measurement. Professor Bonaventura Hadikusumo is a full professor in construction engineering and management at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. He joined after his PhD from the University of Hong Kong in 2001. His teaching and research areas include construction safety and application/adoption of IT and simulation in construction engineering management.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors
Foreword
Chapter 1 Construction safety, health and well-being in the COVID-19 Era:
An introduction
Section One: Management of COVID-19 transmission risk
Chapter 2 The transmission of covid-19 in construction: A systematic review
of findings from statistical and modelling techniques
Chapter 3 Health and safety measures for managing the COVID-19 pandemic in
the construction industry: A comparison study
Chapter 4 Towards improving health management of construction projects
during COVID-19 pandemic
Chapter 5 An overview on the measures taken to tackle COVID-19 impacts on
Nigerian construction sites: A case study of South-South geo-political zone
Chapter 6 COVID-19 pandemic: challenges in practising new norms for
construction workers
Chapter 7 Health and safety in the construction industry during COVID-19
pandemic: case study of Vietnam
Chapter 8 Construction safety culture management during the COVID-19
pandemic
Chapter 9 Policy assessment framework to measure the efficacy of
mask-wearing arrangement during the COVID-19 outbreak: Case studies from
Jakarta, Indonesia
Chapter 10 Construction sector in Indonesia: Occupational health and safety
during the outbreak of COVID-19
Section Two: Impact of COVID-19 on occupational safety, health and
well-being (OSHW)
Chapter 11 Individual and organisational support mechanisms to foster
career resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic
Chapter 12 Assessing how pandemic lockdown upend construction work creed in
Free State and Limpopo, South Africa
Chapter 13 COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of mental health of migrants
construction workers at TTDI Sentralis, Selangor, Malaysia
Chapter 14 COVID-19 and the Ghanaian construction industry: Current sate of
impact and mitigation measures
Chapter 15 Developing resilient construction professionals in the COVID-19
era: Examining architecture students' personality perspective
Chapter 16 Safety, health and wellbeing of construction workers in Nigeria
- Opportunities and challenges associated with COVID-19 pandemic
Chapter 17 Construction site management during COVID-19 in Myanmar
Section Three: Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for construction
project performance
Chapter 18 Intricacies and lifeline for the construction industry amidst
the coronavirus pandemic
Chapter 19 Assessment of COVID-19 control and prevention measures: Lessons
learned at construction sites
Chapter 20 COVID-19 & shock events in the AEC sector: Perspectives on
mitigating measures
Chapter 21 Implication of COVID-19 SOP compliance to project-based
construction workers in Malaysia
Chapter 22 Facing the impacts of COVID-19 in construction: the case of
Chile
Chapter 23 Factors that led to an increase of building collapses during the
COVID-19 lockdown period in the Greater Kampala metropolitan area, Uganda
Chapter 24 A digital approach to health and safety management on-site: A
silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic
Chapter 25 Digitalisation differently: An inclusive digital twin model for
climate risk management in major projects in the post-COVID era