Relatively new to safety, Resilience Engineering (RE) is known by various pseudonyms:
Safety-II, Human & Organizational Performance (HOP) and Safety Differently. Collectively …

The construction industry experiences high injury and fatality rates and is far from achieving
a zero-injury goal. Thus, effective safety management systems are critical to ongoing efforts …

Safety performance data collected over a five year period, at a large Australian infrastructure
project was analysed. The analysis examined the temporal relationships between the safety …

Evaluating the safety maturity of construction contractors before awarding the contract is an
effective strategy that many owners have started to implement. Given the importance of …

Little is known about the costs of safety. A literature review conducted for this study indicates
there is a lack of survey-based research dealing with the effects of occupational health and …

Construction organizations are large and complex with decentralized structures, and
characterized by non-routine work undertaken by semi-autonomous work groups …

Construction occupational accidents are often attributed to workers' having an insufficient
perception of how their actions influence safety in the construction site. This research …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the critical time window for pro-active
construction accident prevention and response. Large to small organisations throughout the …

A systems approach to Occupational Health & Safety Management (OHSM) acknowledges
that entities of people, equipment, tools, processes and policies are all interconnected and …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a critical review of the use of safety
performance indicators in the construction industry. The authors consider the strengths …