Work, Health and Wellbeing in the Construction Industry

著者名：Lingard, Helen/Turner, Michelle

Routledge（2023/05/31発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780367410087
• eISBN：9781000864731

Description

This book covers a wide range of topics relating to the health and wellbeing of the construction workforce. Based on more than two decades of work examining various aspects of workers’ health and wellbeing, the book addresses a key topic in construction management: how the design of work environments, construction processes and organisation of work impact upon construction workers’ physical and psychological health.

Occupational health is a significant problem for the construction industry. However, the subject of health does not receive as much attention in occupational health and safety research or practice as the subject of safety. Traditional management approaches (focused on the prevention of accidents and injuries) are arguably ill-suited to addressing issues of workers’ health and wellbeing. This book seeks to explain how workers' health and wellbeing are impacted by working in the construction sector, and suggest ways in which organisations (and decision makers within them) can positively shape workplaces and practices in ways that better support construction workers to maintain healthy and productive working lives.

Including chapter summaries and discussion questions to encourage student readers to reflect on and formulate their own viewpoints about the issues raised in each chapter, the book has the potential to be used as a textbook in undergraduate or postgraduate occupational health and safety, or construction management courses dealing with occupational health and safety. It could also be used as supplementary recommended reading in undergraduate or postgraduate programmes in architecture, engineering or management.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The health imperative

2. Attending to the "H" in OH&S

3. Work-related factors impacting construction workers' psychological health

4. Working time, health and wellbeing

5. Women's health in construction

6. Employee resilience

7. Health issues in the construction industry in developing countries: The case of Sub-Saharan Africa

8. Young construction workers' health and wellbeing

9. Healthy ageing at work

10. Building a sense of place

11. Thinking about the future