Chapter 8 Health and Safety: A Measure of Project Success

Sustainability of construction project is incomplete without putting into consideration the health and safety of the workforce and other stakeholders working on a project environment. One of the criteria used to evaluate the performance of a sustainable construction project is health. This chapter gives an insight on health as a yardstick for measuring the success of a sustainable construction project, with respect to the health of the personnel working on a project, meaning of health, what constitutes health and health in construction. It also buttresses value of the health of workforce in construction and the need to see health as an important project performance index, as a healthy construction manpower on a construction project will determine and translate the quick delivery of construction project and on time.

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Year of publication:	2022
Authors:	Oke, Ayodeji E.
Published in:	Measures of sustainable construction projects performance. - Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, ISBN 978-1-80382-999-9. - 2022, p. 75-82
Subject:	Arbeitsschutz \| Occupational safety \| Projektmanagement \| Project management \| Erfolgsfaktor \| Success factor \| Projektbewertung \| Project evaluation \| Betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement \| Occupational health

Type of publication:	Article
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1108/978-1-80382-997-520221019 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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