Construction Safety, 2013 Risk Engineering Series

A close-to-ideal blend of suburb and city, speedy construction of towers of Babylon, the sparkling proportion of glass and steel buildings? facade at night showcase the wisdom of humans. They also witness the footsteps, sweats and tears of architects and engineers. Unfortunately, these signatures of human civilizations are swathed in towering figures of construction accidents. Fretting about these on sites, different countries adopt different measures on sites. This book firstly sketches the construction accidents on sites, followed by a review on safety measures in some of the developing countries such as Bermuda, Egypt, Kuwait and China; as well as developed countries, for example, the United States, France and Singapore. It also highlights the enormous compensation costs with the courts? experiences in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong.

Dr Rita Yi Man Li is currently an Assiatant Professor in Hong Kong Shue Yan University. She is the author of many articles and serves as an editorial board member for many journals.

Sun Wah Poon, University of Hong Kong.