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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.

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Author:   Rita Yi Man Li
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9789811932335

ISBN 10:   9811932336
Pages:   214
Publication Date:   01 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Tool Handling and Personal Protective Equipment Safety.- Chapter 2 - Underground and Excavation Construction Safety.- Chapter 3 - Confined Space Construction Safety.- Chapter 4 - Chemical Safety.- Chapter 5 - Electricity Safety.- Chapter 6 - Hazard Awareness.- Chapter 7 - Heat Stress and Construction Safety.- Chapter 8 - Health and Safety.- Chapter 9 - Informatics, Robotics, and Construction Safety.- Chapter 10 - Artificial Intelligence and Construction Safety.- Chapter 11 - Building Construction Safety.- Chapter 12 - Bridge Construction Safety.- Chapter 13 - Property Management and Maintenance Safety.- Chapter 14 - Tunnel Construction Safety.- Chapter 15 - Dam Construction Safety.- Chapter 16 - Utility Construction Safety.- Chapter 17 - Manhole Construction Safety.- Chapter 18 - Green Building Construction Safety.- Chapter 19 - Roof ConstructionSsafety.- Chapter 20 - Vehicle and Plant Movement.- Chapter 21 - Road Construction Safety.

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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 and Waste 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).

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