Occupational Health and Safety Assessment in Construction

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue entitled “Occupational Health and Safety Assessment in Construction”. Construction is always risky because of outdoor operations, work at heights, complicated on-site plants, and equipment operation, coupled with workers’ attitudes and behaviors towards safety. The nature of the rapidly changing conditions in buildings, infrastructure, and facilities, associated work hazards, and the characteristics of construction organizations further aggravate the situation. Many workers continue to be injured or killed due to a lack of safety management on construction sites. Employees and workers suffer health and long-term illness caused by their work. Many of these illnesses only manifest themselves years after exposure, and many are ultimately fatal. These injuries, deaths and illnesses can and should be prevented. There is a need for improvement in health and safety on construction sites and building projects. This Special Issue covers the latest research relating to occupational health and safety management, including policy issues and technical aspects.

This Special Issue aims to bring together up-to-date research in this area. Papers are invited which address developments in construction safety and assessment, including but not limited to the following themes:

• Safety policy, regulations, and enforcement;
• Designing for health and safety;
• Education, safety training and certification;
• Construction safety management;
• Accident analysis and investigation;
• Digital and smart technology for safety;
• Off-site construction for safety;
• Worker behavior and safety;
• Assessment and benchmarking;
• Risk analysis and methods;
• Ergonomics and human factors;
• Safety climate and culture;
• Behavior-based safety;
• Best practices and future directions.

Prof. Rafiq M. Choudhry

Dr. Muhammad U. Hassan

Guest Editors

Prof. Dr. Rafiq Muhammad Choudhry
Dr. Muhammad U. Hassan
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• Occupational health
• Construction safety
• Safety management
• Training and education
• Design for safety
• Technology for OSH
• Risk assessment
• Accident analysis
• Safety culture