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Albert, A, Jeelani, I and Han, K (2020) Developing hazard recognition skill among the next-generation of construction professionals. Construction Management and Economics, 38(11), 1024–39.

Grytnes, R, Tutt, D E and Andersen, L P S (2020) Developing safety cooperation in construction: between facilitating independence and tightening the grip. Construction Management and Economics, 38(11), 977–92.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: Cooperation; health and safety; engagement in safety; risk management; ethnography;
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0144-6193
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2020.1726978
  • Abstract:
    Cooperation about safety and joint responsibility between managers and workers is one of the cornerstones of health and safety work. However, attempts at ensuring safety in the workplace run the risk of focussing on formalities and compliance rather than on joint engagement in safety. Drawing on an understanding of safety as practice, this study attempts to empirically unpack the difference between cooperation as engaging with local knowledges and the disciplining of unsafe behaviour. The research involved an ethnographic study at two large construction sites in Denmark and follows empirical examples of how safety breaches are identified, catalogued, and revealed later on at safety meetings. Managers saw this as an attempt to engage the workers. However, the workers saw this as a punitive way of criticizing their work at a distance. They felt that this practice of moving safety from the construction site and in to meeting rooms ran counter to aims of establishing engaging and effective safety practices close to the work. Efforts to engage workers in safer ways of working should therefore acknowledge the integrated nature of safety practice and the value placed on independence, discretion and negotiation when developing cooperation about workplace safety.

Lingard, H, Wakefield, R and Walker, D (2020) The client’s role in promoting work health and safety in construction projects: balancing contracts and relationships to effect change. Construction Management and Economics, 38(11), 993–1008.

Loganathan, S and Forsythe, P (2020) Unravelling the influence of teamwork on trade crew productivity: a review and a proposed framework. Construction Management and Economics, 38(11), 1040–60.

Loosemore, M, Braham, R, Yiming, Y and Bronkhorst, C (2020) Relational determinants of construction project outcomes: a social network perspective. Construction Management and Economics, 38(11), 1061–76.

Turner, M and Lingard, H (2020) Examining the interaction between bodily pain and mental health of construction workers. Construction Management and Economics, 38(11), 1009–23.