The impact of COVID-19 on the GCC construction industry

T Umar - International Journal of Service Science, Management …, 2022 - igi-global.com
The Coronavirus pandemic has badly affected everyone on the earth. Apart from losing
thousands of lives, businesses and individuals are going to be affected by the long-lasting …

[HTML][HTML] Overcoming barriers to smart safety management system implementation in the construction industry

C Okonkwo, I Okpala, I Awolusi, C Nnaji - Results in Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
The reliance on networked technologies in construction safety and health management is
expected to increase; however, studies have reported potential resistance to the broad …

Applications of drones for safety inspection in the Gulf Cooperation Council construction

T Umar - Engineering, Construction and Architectural …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose construction industry in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member countries is at
the peak as the region is in the stage of developing its infrastructures. Apart from some …

Improving safety performance of construction workers through learning from incidents

APC Chan, J Guan, TNY Choi, Y Yang, G Wu… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Learning from incidents (LFI) is a process to seek, analyse, and disseminate the severity and
causes of incidents, and take corrective measures to prevent the recurrence of similar …

Challenges of BIM implementation in GCC construction industry

T Umar - Engineering, Construction and Architectural …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose In some regions including the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region where
construction is one of the main industries, the implementation of BIM is still at a slow rate …

[HTML][HTML] System dynamics simulation of occupational health and safety management causal model based on NetLogo

Z Cao, J Zhu, B Tang, T Chen - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
The occupational health and safety management factors of construction enterprises are
critical influencing factors in their training management, and their causal principles are …

Effect of occupational health and safety training for Chinese construction workers based on the CHAID decision tree

Z Cao, T Chen, Y Cao - Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Occupational health and safety (OHS) training is an important way to prevent
construction safety risks. However, the effectiveness of OHS training in China is …

Safety climate factors in construction–a literature review

T Umar - Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
It is an established fact that a mature safety climate and a rich safety culture contribute to
achieving a safe workplace. This paper aims to explore and to make explicit the existing …

Key factors influencing the implementation of three-dimensional printing in construction

T Umar - Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers …, 2020 - icevirtuallibrary.com
Due to its wider applications and advantages, three-dimensional (3D) printing has attracted
the attention of various industries in the past years. Although the implementation of 3D …

Heat stress, a hidden cause of accidents in construction

T Umar, C Egbu - Proceedings of the Institution of Civil …, 2020 - icevirtuallibrary.com
Extreme heat stress has a deep impact on physiological reactions, which results in
occupational injuries and deaths. In this paper, an attempt is made to understand the impact …