Special Issue "Advances in Construction Safety Management Practices"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Wei Tong Chen
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Guest Editor
Graduate School of Engineering and Science of Technology/Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Douliu (64002), Taiwan
Interests: Construction Safety, Critical Success Factors Analysis, Organization/Project Performance Assessment, Value Engineering and Application, Construction Cost/Time Relationship
Prof. Dr. Ying-Hua Huang
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Guest Editor
Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Douliu (64002), Taiwan
Interests: construction management, safety, decision optimization in engineering and management
Assoc. Prof. Han-Hsiang Wang
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Guest Editor
Department of Civil Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan City (32001), Taiwan
Interests: sustainable development, construction safety and risk management, construction semantics snalysis and modeling application

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Internationally, the construction industry is one of the most dangerous fields when it comes to worker safety and is often over represented when it comes to serious injuries, work-related illness and fatalities. Further to the impacts on construction worker safety, these also contribute to indirect losses such as schedule delays and increased project costs. The substantial social and economic impacts associated with worksite injury and fatalities has resulted in significant international research interest in understanding the underlying factors influencing construction safety management over the past few decades. Despite the current understanding of construction safety management, poor levels of such management are still commonly observed in the construction industry internationally. Improving the safety and wellbeing of workers in the construction industry requires advancing the current understanding of the current and future needs for ensuring the safe and successful management of construction projects in an environment characterised by competing objectives.

This Special Issue welcomes original articles that address the challenges and opportunities for enhancing construction safety management in all its facets. Submissions could relate, but are not limited, to the following topics related to science, technology and the management of worker and construction safety:

  • Social, policy and organizational aspects.
  • The effectiveness of risk control and management techniques for improving safety performance.
  • Advances in technologies related to the assessment, control, management and communication of risks.
  • Human factors and safety.
  • Policy, planning and decision-making in safety.
  • The interface between technology, people, environment and organizations.

Prof. Dr. Wei Tong Chen
Prof. Dr. Ying-Hua Huang
Assoc. Prof. Han-Hsiang Wang
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 papers will be 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. Sustainability 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 1900 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
  • performance evaluation
  • control and management
  • decision-making
  • safety improvement
  • risk management

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Relationships between Social Support, Social Status Perception, Social Identity, Work Stress, and Safety Behavior of Construction Site Management Personnel
Sustainability 2021, 13(6), 3184; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063184 - 14 Mar 2021
Cited by 2 | Viewed by 702
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The occupational injury death rate and mortality ratio owing to cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases in the construction industry are the highest among all industries in Taiwan. Reducing work stress and improving safety behavior is a must for reducing occupational disasters and diseases. Construction [...] Read more.
The occupational injury death rate and mortality ratio owing to cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases in the construction industry are the highest among all industries in Taiwan. Reducing work stress and improving safety behavior is a must for reducing occupational disasters and diseases. Construction site management personnel’s safety behavior is an important paradigm for construction workers. This study explored the relationships among work stress, safety behavior, professional identity, social status perception, and social support for construction site management personnel by using structural equation modeling (SEM). The results indicated that low work stress can lead to favorable safety behavior. Greater company support, family support, and professional identity reduce work stress. Social status perception negatively influences work stress indirectly through the mediation of professional identity. The results revealed that construction site management personnel working within an exempt employee system (i.e., no overtime pay and compensatory leave) exhibited a significantly higher effort/reward ratio than those without this system. Gender, headquarter location, and site location also significantly influenced the on-site management personnel’s effort/reward ratio. Full article
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