Summary
This project investigated the way that construction industry participants (including clients, designers and other stakeholders) interact to influence occupational health and safety outcomes.
The research identified patterns of interaction and communication that can improve safety in design outcomes in construction projects.
Data was collected in the USA and Australia and international comparisons were made.
Tools were developed to help construction project participants foster shared mental models of safety and work together to improve the likelihood that ‘above the line’ control measures will be implemented for health and safety risks.
Team
- Helen Lingard
- Brian Kleiner
- Nick Blismas
- Ron Wakefield
- Rita Peihua Zhang
- Payam Pirzadeh
- James Harley
Partners
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (USA) under a subcontract agreement with Virginia Tech.
Publications
Peer-reviewed papers/outputs
- PIRZADEH, P., & LINGARD, H. (2017), Understanding the dynamics of construction decision making and the impact on work health and safety, Journal of Management in Engineering, 33(5), 05017003.
- DONG, Z., MCCOY, A. P., KLEINER, B. M., MILLS, T. H., & LINGARD, H., (2016), Stakeholder perceptions of risk in construction, Safety Science, 82, pp. 111-119.
- ZHANG, R. P., LINGARD, H., BLISMAS, N., WAKEFIELD, R. and KLEINER, B., (2015), Work-health and safety-risk perception of construction industry stakeholders using photograph-based Q methodology, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, vol. 141, no. 5, pp. 1–13.
- LINGARD H., PIRZADEH, P., BLISMAS, N., SAUNDERS, L., KLEINER, B. & WAKEFIELD, R., (2015), The relationship between pre-construction decision-making and the quality of risk control: Testing the time-safety influence curve, Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 22 (1), pp. 108-124.
- LINGARD, H., ZHANG, R. P., BLISMAS, N., WAKEFIELD, R. & KLEINER, B., (2015), Are we on the same page? Exploring construction professionals’ mental models of occupational health and safety, Construction Management and Economics, 33, pp. 73 – 84.
- SAUNDERS, L. W., KLEINER, B. M., MCCOY, A. P., LINGARD, H., MILLS, T., BLISMAS, N., & WAKEFIELD, R. (2015), The effect of early supplier engagement on social sustainability outcomes in project-based supply chains, Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management.
- LINGARD H., PIRZADEH, P., BLISMAS, N., SAUNDERS, L., WAKEFIELD, R. & KLEINER, B., (2014), Exploring the link between early constructor involvement in project decision-making and the efficacy of health and safety risk control, Construction Management and Economics, 32, (9), pp. 918–931.
