Emerging Technologies and Approaches for Construction Safety Management

Dear Colleagues,

For decades, improving health, wellbeing, and safety in construction has proved to be a major challenge. Despite diverse efforts, injury and fatality rates remain disproportionately high in construction. Construction job sites are dynamic, complicated, and unpredictable environments where workers are often exposed to diverse hazards on a daily basis. A variety of emerging technologies may offer promising solutions to the long-standing safety challenges encountered in construction. In recent years, construction practitioners and academics have begun to leverage innovative technologies towards improved safety outcomes in the construction sector. However, many questions and challenges regarding technologically enhanced safety management approaches remain unaddressed. Many emerging technological tools and solutions for construction safety are still at a low level of maturity, and there is a lack of documented work on how they can be implemented in practice. This Special Issue will engage not only technological perspectives, but also managerial, cultural, and organizational aspects in managing safety in construction. Authors are invited to submit any novel work focused on improving construction safety and health. The listed keywords suggest just a few of the many possibilities.

Dr. Akeem Pedro
Dr. Mehrtash Soltani
Dr. Hai Chien Pham
Guest Editors

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