Ebook: Construction Safety
- Tags: Construction Management, Quality of Life Research, Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine, Innovation/Technology Management, Quality Control Reliability Safety and Risk
- Series: Risk Engineering
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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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.
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.
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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
A Literature Review on the Causes of Construction Accidents....Pages 1-11
Why Do Accidents Happen? A Critical Review on the Evolution of the Construction Accident Causation Models....Pages 13-23
Supply of Safety Measures in Developing and Developed Countries: A Global Perspective....Pages 25-39
Effectiveness of Safety Measures in Reducing Construction Accident Rates....Pages 41-48
Senior and Junior Construction Personnel’s Point of View on Construction Safety....Pages 49-63
Case Studies on Safety Measures Implementation....Pages 65-80
Using Web 2.0 to Share the Knowledge of Construction Safety as a Public Good in Nature Among Researchers: The Fable of Economic Animals....Pages 81-95
Future Motivation in Construction Safety Knowledge Sharing by Means of Information Technology....Pages 97-116
Demand for Construction Safety....Pages 117-121
Workers’ Compensation for Non-fatal Construction Accidents: Review of Court Cases in Hong Kong....Pages 123-135
Construction Accident Compensation in the United Kingdom....Pages 137-151
Job Burnout and Safety Performance in the Hong Kong Construction Industry....Pages 153-155
Back Matter....Pages 157-159
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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
A Literature Review on the Causes of Construction Accidents....Pages 1-11
Why Do Accidents Happen? A Critical Review on the Evolution of the Construction Accident Causation Models....Pages 13-23
Supply of Safety Measures in Developing and Developed Countries: A Global Perspective....Pages 25-39
Effectiveness of Safety Measures in Reducing Construction Accident Rates....Pages 41-48
Senior and Junior Construction Personnel’s Point of View on Construction Safety....Pages 49-63
Case Studies on Safety Measures Implementation....Pages 65-80
Using Web 2.0 to Share the Knowledge of Construction Safety as a Public Good in Nature Among Researchers: The Fable of Economic Animals....Pages 81-95
Future Motivation in Construction Safety Knowledge Sharing by Means of Information Technology....Pages 97-116
Demand for Construction Safety....Pages 117-121
Workers’ Compensation for Non-fatal Construction Accidents: Review of Court Cases in Hong Kong....Pages 123-135
Construction Accident Compensation in the United Kingdom....Pages 137-151
Job Burnout and Safety Performance in the Hong Kong Construction Industry....Pages 153-155
Back Matter....Pages 157-159
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