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Aboukhadra, W (2021) Learning organisation, affective commitment and cultural intelligence: the case of expatriates in the Gulf Co-operation Council countries, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Nottingham Trent University.
Adnan, H B (2004) Joint venture projects in Malaysian Construction Industry Factors Critical to success, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Property and Construction, Nottingham Trent University.
Agyekum-Mensah, G (2013) The development of an innovative sustainable total planning and control system for construction projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University.
Ahmed Namadi, S i (2019) A framework for collaborative costing in the UK construction industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University.
Alharbi, F (2020) Critical delay factors in housing construction projects in Saudi Arabia: Assessment and solutions, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Nottingham Trent University.
Asnaashari, E (2011) A holistic conceptual model for managing construction logistics in building projects: the case of Iran, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University.
Boyal-Seth, H (2011) Assessing the business case for supplier diversity in the construction housing sector, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University.
Coupar, G (2009) Modern approaches to repairs and maintenance procurement within the social housing sector, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University.
Daniel, E I (2017) Exploratory study into the use of Last Planner® System and collaborative planning for construction process improvement, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University.
Dowd, V G (1999) The pervading role of risk allocation as the link mechanism between factors of influence and construction procurement practices adopted in the UK construction industry over the period 1965-1995, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Nottingham Trent University.
Dupin, P (2021) Using pull and flow systems to improve production stability in real estate development projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Nottingham Trent University.
Grada, M (2007) The impact of economic value added measure in assessing the business performance of UK construction companies, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Nottingham Trent University.
Hackett, V (2017) The impact of a collaborative planning approach on engineering construction performance, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Nottingham Trent University.
Hamza, A (2002) Partnering in the construction industry: an empirical investigation into the critical success factors, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Property and Construction, Nottingham Trent University.
Hurst, A G (2009) Management education, training and development of construction managers: will they ever learn?, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University.
Idan, C K (2003) Quality function deployment (QFD) in the UK construction industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Nottingham Trent University.
Jaafar, T (1992) A unified methodology for project planning risk, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Nottingham Trent University.
Jackson, F (2006) Biodegradable hydraulic fluids: Reducing oil-related pollution in the construction industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Nottingham Trent University.
Keats, R J (2014) An exploration of how professional associations advance innovation and promote innovation pedagogy, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Nottingham Trent University.
Khadour, L (2010) Total quality environmental management framework towards sustainability (UK novated D&B principal contractors), Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University.
Khalid, U (2022) Investigation into the development of a human reliability analysis framework for the safety management of construction projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Nottingham Trent University.
- Type: Thesis
- Keywords: human behaviour; personnel; reliability; construction site; government; health and safety; occupational health and safety; risk assessment; safety; UK; construction project; professional; interview
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- URL: http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/48285/
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Despite the fact that the construction industry is well-known for its enormous economic contribution to the country, the high fatality rate remains a major source of concern for construction professionals. The hazardous, fragmented, cost-driven, and dynamic nature of the industry has been identified as the primary contributor to the construction industry's compromised safety. Despite several initiatives from the government, safety regulatory bodies, and safety professionals to improve safety management, statistics show that occupational safety performance is still unacceptable. In fact, the construction industry is still grappling with identifying the critical factors influencing safety performance. Consequently, contemporary practices are incapable of dealing with the current H&S challenges. To overcome safety issues, it is critical to integrate underlying safety factors affecting safety performance into safety management systems. As a result of the aforementioned issues, the goal of this study was to investigate the underlying factors influencing safety performance in the UK construction industry and propose a framework to address the shortcomings by incorporating advanced immersive technologies for H&S management. This study took a systematic approach, first identifying the critical factors that have a significant impact on the safety performance of construction projects through a detailed literature review, which served as the foundation for developing an initial framework. These factors were classified into several clusters, which included organisational, managerial, legislative, social, environmental, and personnel considerations. Human/personnel factors were discovered to have a significant impact on occupational health and safety on construction projects, accounting for approximately 80% of construction site accidents; thus, the underlying factors were investigated further in this study. In order to supplement the findings of the literature review, a mixed-method approach was used to scope the working framework for overcoming the H&S challenges influencing safety performance. This involved conducting a total of 34 questionnaire research which helped to refine the research findings and shaped the proposed framework to assess human error in construction projects. Afterwards, a qualitative approach involving semi-structured interviews was used to validate the proposed framework. In total, 20 experts took part in the interviews, and the results were compared to the initial findings to validate the research findings, as well as the proposed framework, was shown to the participants to validate its working. The research findings suggested that the leading causes of human error are human personnel traits such as human behaviour, attitude, risk assessment, experience, and hazard assessment. Furthermore, to investigate the occurrence of human error, accident causation models have been studied to analyse the relationship between the latent and proximal human factors. The human reliability analysis (HRA) technique was used to manage human error in construction projects. Several HRA techniques have been examined to determine the best fit framework and the proposed framework was created using the HRA technique, which has been proven to be an effective method in safety-critical industries. Furthermore, immersive technology has been proposed and integrated into the novel framework to develop a viable safety management framework. The proposed immersive safety management framework was validated by respondents.
Kings, S (2002) Pricing documentation for contractors' estimators: Establishing a more effective approach, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Nottingham Trent University.
McLean, M (2014) A longitudinal analysis of a partial mediation model of employee engagement in a knowledge-intensive firm, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University.
Musa, M M (2019) A framework for implementing target value delivery to enhance value creation in the construction industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Nottingham Trent University.
Owen, K J (2002) Success factors in the procurement of privately financed tolled transportation infrastructure projects in the UK, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Property and Construction, Nottingham Trent University.
Payne, B (1998) Project risk analysis, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University.
Pritchard, C (2005) Skin cancer prevention in the house building industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Nottingham Trent University.
Rashid, K B A (1998) The processes of construction procurement in Malaysia: Identification of constraints and development of proposed strategies in the context of 'vision 2020', Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Nottingham Trent University.
Sarhan, S (2018) Institutional waste within the UK construction industry: an exploratory study, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University.
Sharif, A (1996) A functional analysis of building procurement systems and strategies in an international context, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Nottingham Trent University.
Taylor, M S (2021) Strategic management accounting practices in medium sized UK construction companies: a mixed-methods approach, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Nottingham Trent University.
Ward, A D (2016) Development of a contextualised understanding of the diffusion of innovation among quantity surveyors in the UK construction industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University.