Subcontractor management in construction

Subcontractor management in construction

Summary

This project aims to examine and address the challenges of subcontractor management and WHS compliance in the NSW construction industry. This research is being undertaken in partnership with the Centre for Work Health and Safety NSW.

Subcontracting is pervasive in the Australian construction industry, where over 98% of companies are small businesses operating as subcontractors and employing fewer than 20 people. Such extensive subcontracting, coupled with multi-tiers of subcontractors, imposes significant challenges for WHS management.

This project will adopt a system dynamics (SD) approach to understand subcontracting arrangements and WHS compliance in the NSW construction industry and design and test solutions to improve subcontractor WHS compliance.

Team

  • Helen Lingard
  • Rita Zhang
  • Payam Pirzadeh
  • Pauline Teo
  • Azizur Rahman
  • Ha Nguyen (Centre for Work Health and Safety NSW)

Partners

  • Centre for Work Health and Safety NSW
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.

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