This book covers the economics of construction safety, such as the asymmetric information of different construction practitioners in Hong Kong, studies feminism in Australia’s traditionally male-dominated construction industry, and researches an efficient Small-Scale Contractors’ construction health and safety performance management in Zambia. It also constructs the risk rating matrix and assesses occupational hazards identification and risk Assessment in Kaligandaki’s Construction Project.
Besides, it throws light on construction safety informatics, such as scaffolds safety via rule-based safety checking and BIM. It compares safety awareness in academic databases in construction, manufacturing, traffic, and health and food industries. It studies construction, real estate hazard, and urban renewal hazard articles indexed on the Web of Science. It conducts a systematic literature review on safety culture. Lastly, it reviewed refurbishment and demolition work in Hong Kong’s legal databases.
Table of contents (10 chapters)
Front Matter
Pages i-vi
How Does Social Exchange Theory, Perceived Organizational Support and Leader-Member Exchange Affect Construction Practitioners’ Perception on Construction Safety? An Asymmetric Information Approach
Cho Kei Mak, Rita Yi Man Li
Pages 1-26
An Appraisal of Drivers to Efficient Occupational Health and Safety Performance Management for Small-Scale Contractors in Zambia
Mwewa Mambwe, Erastus M. Mwanaumo, Wellington Didibhuku Thwala, Clinton O. Aigbavboa
Pages 27-49
Rule Based Safety Checking in Scaffolds by Integrating Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Safety Management
Aneetha Vilventhan, Subhadarshi Mohapatra
Pages 51-63
A Comparative Study on Scholars’ Perspectives on Factors That Affect Safety Awareness
Rita Yi Man Li
Pages 65-77
Hazard Awareness in Property Refurbishment Work: An Analysis on Court Case Precedents
Meilin Ding, Rita Yi Man Li
Pages 79-94
Identification of Workplace Risks and Their Risk Assessment During Transmission Line Construction: A Case Study on Infrastructure Project in Nepal
A. K. Mishra, J. S. Sudarsan, S. Nithiyanantham
Pages 95-134
Femininizing a Masculinised Industry: From Altering the Demography to Transforming the Logic
Andrea Yunyan Jia
Pages 135-152
Hazard Awareness in Stages of Real Estate Development
Rita Yi Man Li, Pak Chuen Leung
Pages 153-163
Demystifying the Recent Trends and Advances in Safety Culture Research: A Systematic Review
M. D. Deepak, Gangadhar Mahesh
Pages 165-182
Developing Safety Capabilities in Integrated Project Delivery: Mobilising the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework
Andrea Yunyan Jia
Pages 183-214
About the Author
Dr Rita Yi Man Li is now an associate professor and serves as the sustainable Real Estate Research Center director. Li’s primary research interests lie in construction safety, sustainable development, housing economics, artificial intelligence, real estate economics, and finance.
Dr Li has more than 300 publications, including top journal articles and proceedings and has been invited as keynote speaker at numerous conferences. Dr LI has served as an editorial board member of over 20 journals and is currently the guest editor for Safety Science, Sustainability, Frontier in Environmental Sciences, and the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Sustainable Real Estate and Construction Economics.
Dr Li is active in book publication and has been publishing with Springer for more than five monographs, including Construction Safety (2013), Law, Economics and Finance of the Real Estate Market―A Perspective of Hong Kong and Singapore (2014), Construction Safety andWaste Management: An Economic Analysis (2015), An Economic Analysis on Automated Construction Safety: Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and 3D Printing (2018), Construction safety informatics (2019). She has also edited the book Current State of Art in Artificial Intelligence and Ubiquitous Cities (2022).
