Construction Safety, Health and Well-being in the COVID-19 era Spon Research Series

This edited book presents a significant and timely contribution to our understanding of a broad range of issues pertaining to COVID-19 and its relationship to occupational safety, health and well-being (OSHW) in the global construction industry.

The editors first introduce the industry and its poor OSHW history before highlighting some of the broader impacts of the pandemic on the sector. The book is then divided into two sections. Section One focuses on the management of COVID-19 transmission risk. It captures insights, practices, technologies and lessons learned in relation to what has and is being done to prevent or mitigate the risk of COVID-19 transmission among the construction workforce. Construction Safety, Health and Well-being in the COVID-19 Era also details case studies, lessons and best practices for managing sites and workforces when infections inevitably do occur. Section Two brings together international chapters discussing the impacts of COVID-19 on the OSHW of the construction workforce both on and off-site, as well as the management of those impacts. Furthermore, this presents implications of the pandemic (at the short-, medium-, and long-term) for other performance measures of construction projects such as cost, schedule, quality and, most importantly, how the pursuit/non-pursuit of such performance measures have impacted/will impact the OSHW of construction workers and professionals in the industry.

This book addresses the gap in literature by offering global perspectives on the OSHW impacts and implications of COVID-19 in the construction industry and will help its wide readership (including construction industry organisations, professionals, researchers, government bodies/policy makers and students) to understand a broad suite of issues pertaining to COVID-19 and its relationship to OSHW in construction.

List of Contributors

Foreword

Chapter 1 Construction safety, health and well-being in the COVID-19 Era: An introduction

Section One: Management of COVID-19 transmission risk

Chapter 2 The transmission of covid-19 in construction: A systematic review of findings from statistical and modelling techniques

Chapter 3 Health and safety measures for managing the COVID-19 pandemic in the construction industry: A comparison study

Chapter 4 Towards improving health management of construction projects during COVID-19 pandemic

Chapter 5 An overview on the measures taken to tackle COVID-19 impacts on Nigerian construction sites: A case study of South-South geo-political zone

Chapter 6 COVID-19 pandemic: challenges in practising new norms for construction workers

Chapter 7 Health and safety in the construction industry during COVID-19 pandemic: case study of Vietnam

Chapter 8 Construction safety culture management during the COVID-19 pandemic

Chapter 9 Policy assessment framework to measure the efficacy of mask-wearing arrangement during the COVID-19 outbreak: Case studies from Jakarta, Indonesia

Chapter 10 Construction sector in Indonesia: Occupational health and safety during the outbreak of COVID-19

Section Two: Impact of COVID-19 on occupational safety, health and well-being (OSHW)

Chapter 11 Individual and organisational support mechanisms to foster career resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic

Chapter 12 Assessing how pandemic lockdown upend construction work creed in Free State and Limpopo, South Africa

Chapter 13 COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of mental health of migrants construction workers at TTDI Sentralis, Selangor, Malaysia

Chapter 14 COVID-19 and the Ghanaian construction industry: Current sate of impact and mitigation measures

Chapter 15 Developing resilient construction professionals in the COVID-19 era: Examining architecture students’ personality perspective

Chapter 16 Safety, health and wellbeing of construction workers in Nigeria - Opportunities and challenges associated with COVID-19 pandemic

Chapter 17 Construction site management during COVID-19 in Myanmar

Section Three: Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for construction project performance

Chapter 18 Intricacies and lifeline for the construction industry amidst the coronavirus pandemic

Chapter 19 Assessment of COVID-19 control and prevention measures: Lessons learned at construction sites

Chapter 20 COVID-19 & shock events in the AEC sector: Perspectives on mitigating measures

Chapter 21 Implication of COVID-19 SOP compliance to project-based construction workers in Malaysia

Chapter 22 Facing the impacts of COVID-19 in construction: the case of Chile

Chapter 23 Factors that led to an increase of building collapses during the COVID-19 lockdown period in the Greater Kampala metropolitan area, Uganda

Chapter 24 A digital approach to health and safety management on-site: A silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic

Chapter 25 Digitalisation differently: An inclusive digital twin model for climate risk management in major projects in the post-COVID era

Dr Patrick Manu is a Reader in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering at The University of Manchester. He has expertise in construction management research, especially in occupational safety and health (OSH). He co-led an international initiative in conjunction with Professor Fidelis Emuze, Professor Tarcisio Abreu Saurin, and Professor Bonaventura Hadikusumo, to publish the first edited book on construction health and safety in developing countries, which won the 2019 Taylor & Francis Outstanding Book and Digital Product Award within the best monograph in engineering category.

Dr Clara Cheung is a project management professional (PMP) and Lecturer in Project Management in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, The University of Manchester. She has expertise in construction management and organisational behaviour research, especially in occupational health, safety and well-being.

Dr Akilu Yunusa-Kaltungo is a Senior Lecturer in Reliability and Maintenance Engineering in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering (MACE), The University of Manchester (UoM). He has research expertise in operational reliability, safety and health management, industrial maintenance and asset management. He has recently served as the principal investigator for industrial safety research projects funded by Lloyds Register Foundation (LRF) as well as the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

Professor Fidelis Emuze is Professor and Head of the Department of Built Environment at the Central University of Technology, Free State, South Africa. Construction research in lean construction, health and safety, supply chain management, and sustainability constitutes the main research interests of Professor Emuze. He is a National Research Foundation (NRF) C rated researcher who has published over 250 research outputs in the last eight years. Professor Emuze is the editor of Value and Was