Safety Control and Risk Management in Construction: Current Evidence, Critical Gaps and Future Directions
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2027 | Viewed by 111
Special Issue Editors
Interests: lean project delivery system; project planning and controls; occupational health and safety in construction; advancement of residential construction
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Construction remains one of the most hazardous industries globally. Despite decades of regulatory requirements and research efforts, challenges in safety control and risk management persist. While significant progress has been made in understanding hazard identification and mitigation, accident causation, and safety culture, critical gaps remain in translating research evidence into consistent on-site practice, particularly across diverse project types, procurement structures, and regulatory environments.
For this Special Issue, we invite the submission of original research, systematic reviews, and case studies that advance the state of knowledge in construction safety and risk management. We welcome submissions addressing, but not limited to, emerging technologies for hazard identification, detection, and monitoring, human and organizational factors in safety performance, near-miss reporting and learning systems, safety climate measurement and intervention, risk quantification and decision-making under uncertainty, and the integration of digital tools such as BIM, AI, and wearable sensors into safety management systems. By consolidating current evidence, identifying critical gaps, and charting future research directions, this Special Issue aims to catalyze meaningful advances in how the construction industry identifies, manages, and ultimately reduces health and safety risk to its workforce.
Dr. Somik Ghosh
Dr. Matthew Reyes
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 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.
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 semimonthly 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.
Keywords
- construction safety
- risk management
- hazard identification
- safety climate
- human factors
- accident causation
- digital technologies
- safety performance
- organizational resilience
- worker well-being
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