The Impact of Integrating Occupational Safety and Health into the Pre-Construction Phase of Projects: A Literature Review
Abstract
Full text article
References
Smith, N.J. (1999). Managing Risk in Construction Projects, Blackwell, Oxford.
Shamsuddin, K. A., Ani, M. N. C., Ismail, A. K., & Ibrahim, M. R. (2015). Investigation the Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) protection in construction area. International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology, 2(6), 624-636.
OSHA, Occupational Safety and health administration, Formaldehyde. (2008). Retrieved March 10, 2017, from https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document
Teo, E. A. L., Ling, F. Y. Y., & Chong, A. F. W. (2005). Framework for project managers to manage construction safety. International Journal of project management, 23(4), 329-341.
Zolfagharian, S., Ressang, A., Irizarry, J., Nourbakhsh, M., & Zin, R. M. (2011, July). Risk Assessment of Common Construction Hazards among Different Countries. In Sixth International Conference on Construction in the 21st Century (CITC-VI). Kuala Lumpur Malaysia (pp.151-160).
Haywood, G. (2004). Achieving excellence in construction procurement. Actions to Improve Safety & Health in Construction.
Hare, B., Cameron, I., & Roy Duff, A. (2006). Exploring the integration of health and safety with pre-construction planning. Engineering, construction and architectural management, 13(5), 438-450.
Saurin, T. A., & Fermoso, C. T. (2008). Guidelines for considering construction safety requiremnets in the design process. Industrial engineering and Transportation Department.
Ritter, F. D. (2006). Successful personal injury investigation: Master the techniques of finding the facts that win cases for plaintiff attorneys. Library of Congress.
Hinze, J., & Russell, D. B. (1997). Construction safety. Prentice Hall.
Frederick G. and Nancy J. (2009). Construction Project Management. Columbus, Ohio: Prentice hall.
Choudhry, R. M., & Fang, D. (2008). Why operatives engage in unsafe work behavior: Investigating factors on construction sites. Safety science, 46(4), 566-584.
Helander, M. G. (1991). Safety hazards and motivation for safe work in the construction industry. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 8(3), 205-223.
Bottani, E., Monica, L., & Vignali, G. (2009). Safety management systems: Performance differences between adopters and non-adopters. Safety Science, 47(2), 155-162.
Wilson, J. M., & Koehn, E. E. (2000). Safety management: problems encountered and recommended solutions. Journal of construction engineering and management, 126(1), 77-79.
International Labor Organization (ILO), Safety and Health in Construction Convention, 1988 (No. 167). (1988). Retrieved March 20, 2017, from http://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:12100:0::NO:::
Mohamed, S. (2002). Safety climate in construction site environments. Journal of construction engineering and management, 128(5), 375-384.
Baxendale, T., & Jones, O. (2000). Construction design and management safety regulations in practice—progress on implementation. International Journal of Project Management, 18(1), 33-40.
Makin, A. M., & Winder, C. (2008). A new conceptual framework to improve the application of occupational health and safety management systems. Safety Science, 46(6), 935-948.
Sulaiman, K., & Mahyuddin, N. (2005). Safety in the Construction Industry: Are we Barking at the Wrong Tree? [NIOSH]. Journal of Occupational, Safety, & Health, 2005, 2(1), 7.
Singh, H. (2002). Engineering and Construction Contracts Management: law and principles. LexisNexis.
Tregenza, T. (2004). Action to Improve Safety & Health in Construction. Magazine of the European Agency for Safety & Health at Work.
Hendrickson, C., & Au, T. (2000). Project Management for Construction: Fundamental Concepts for Owners. Engineers, Architects and Builders, Prentice Hall, Pittsburgh.
Providing guidance and information to deliver construction works at Imperial College London. (2011). Retrieved March 20, 2017, from
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/capitalprojects/projectprocedures/stages/tender
Huang, X., & Hinze, J. (2003). Analysis of construction worker fall accidents. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 129(3), 262-271.
Occupational Safety & Health Act and Regulations Act 514 in 1994 (OSH) (MY.).
Huang, X., & Hinze, J. (2006). Owner’s role in construction safety. Journal of construction engineering and management, 132(2), 164-173.
Thye, L. L. (2006). Leadership and the Development of OSH Culture. In Proceeding of the 9th Conference and Exhibition on National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
Fleming, M. (2006). Developing safety culture measurement tools and techniques based on site audits rather than questionnaires. Final Project Report, Saint Marys University, 1-63.
Gambatese, J. A. (1996). Addressing Construction Worker Safety in the Project Design. University of Washington, Seattle.
Gambatese, J. A. (2000). Owner involvement in construction site safety. In Construction Congress VI: Building Together for a Better Tomorrow in an Increasingly Complex World, Orlando, Florida, (pp. 20-22).
Gambatese, J., & Hinze, J. (1999). Addressing construction worker safety in the design phase: Designing for construction worker safety. Automation in construction, 8(6), 643-649.
Levitt, R. E., Parker, H. W., & Samelson, N. M. (1981). Improving Construction Safety Performance: the user's role. Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
Smallwood, J. J. (2002, September). The influence of health and safety (H&S) culture on H&S performance. In Proceedings (pp. 217-226).
Workplace fatal injuries in Great Britain 2018 [PDF]. (2018, July 4). Health and Safety Executive. Retrieved March 20, 2017, from http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/pdf/fatalinjuries.pdf .
Authors
Copyright (c) 2018 Laila Khodeir, Youhansen Salahel Dine

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- The Author shall grant to the Publisher and its agents the nonexclusive perpetual right and license to publish, archive, and make accessible the Work in whole or in part in all forms of media now or hereafter known under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License or its equivalent, which, for the avoidance of doubt, allows others to copy, distribute, and transmit the Work under the following conditions:
- Attribution: other users must attribute the Work in the manner specified by the author as indicated on the journal Web site;
With the understanding that the above condition can be waived with permission from the Author and that where the Work or any of its elements is in the public domain under applicable law, that status is in no way affected by the license.
- The Author is able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the nonexclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the Work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), as long as there is provided in the document an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post online a pre-publication manuscript (but not the Publisher's final formatted PDF version of the Work) in institutional repositories or on their Websites prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (see The Effect of Open Access). Any such posting made before acceptance and publication of the Work shall be updated upon publication to include a reference to the Publisher-assigned DOI (Digital Object Identifier) and a link to the online abstract for the final published Work in the Journal.
- Upon Publisher's request, the Author agrees to furnish promptly to Publisher, at the Author's own expense, written evidence of the permissions, licenses, and consents for use of third-party material included within the Work, except as determined by Publisher to be covered by the principles of Fair Use.
- The Author represents and warrants that:
- The Work is the Author's original work;
- The Author has not transferred, and will not transfer, exclusive rights in the Work to any third party;
- The Work is not pending review or under consideration by another publisher;
- The Work has not previously been published;
- The Work contains no misrepresentation or infringement of the Work or property of other authors or third parties; and
- The Work contains no libel, invasion of privacy, or other unlawful matter.
- The Author agrees to indemnify and hold Publisher harmless from Author's breach of the representations and warranties contained in Paragraph 7 above, as well as any claim or proceeding relating to Publisher's use and publication of any content contained in the Work, including third-party content.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.