Strategic Safety Management in Construction and Engineering

Patrick Xiao Wei Zou is Professor and Research Leader of Construction Engineering and Management at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. With a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, he has held a professorship at the University of Canberra and associate professorship at UNSW, and visiting academic appointments at several universities in the UK, USA, Singapore  and China. Dr Zou is an award winning researcher and teacher in the fields of safety management, risk management, and sustainable building and construction systems. Prior to entering to academia he worked as construction engineer.  Riza Yosia Sunindijo is a Lecturer in Construction Management in the Faculty of the Built Environment, at the University of New South Wales. He has also worked as a project engineer, project manager, and sustainability champion for a range of multi-national construction and project management organisations

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• Foreword viiAcknowledgements ix1 Safety Management in Construction and Engineering: An Introduction 1The importance of the industry 1Characteristics of the construction and engineering sector 2Why a book on strategic safety management? 6Historical development and current trends in construction safety management 6The book’s contents 10References 142 Economics of Safety 17Costs of construction accidents 18Benefits of investment in safety 29Return on investment in safety management 33A case study on return on investment in safety risk management 35Optimisation of investment in safety risk management 40Evaluation of investment in safety risk management 44Conclusions 49References 493 Safety Climate and Culture 53Safety climate 54Safety culture 58Safety culture maturity measurement criteria and frameworks 62Safety culture maturity measurement instrument 65Case studies 69Utility of safety culture 80Conclusions 81References 824 Skills for Safety 86An overview of the skill set 86Conceptual skill 92Human skill 95Political skill 99Technical skills 103Skill development model 106Skill development strategies 111Conclusions 117References 1185 Safety Training and Learning 123Training and learning defined 124Approaches to learning: pedagogy and andragogy 124Safety learning in construction and engineering 128Techniques for evaluating safety training and learning 139Case study 142Conclusions 148References 1496 Safety in Design, Risk Management and BIM 152What is safety in design? 152Why is it necessary to implement safety in design? 155Safety in design policies and guidelines 156Safety risk management 160Current issues and possible solutions 170Case studies 172Building information modelling (BIM) for safety in design 175Conclusions 177References 1777 Research Methodology and Research–Practice Nexus 180A typical research process 181Research methodologies 183Current state of play on safety research methodologies 193Social desirability bias in research design 195Why and how social desirability bias happens 197Techniques for minimising social desirability bias in safety research 200Research-practice nexus 203Discussions 207Assessing the relevance of research outcomes in practical application 208Conclusions 208References 2108 Strategic Safety Management 214A strategic safety management framework 215Developing safety management strategies 216Implementing safety management strategies 220Evaluating safety management strategies 224Case study 225Conclusions 230References 231Bibliography 234Index 237