Previous studies merely attempted to identify factors affecting safety performance from the micro perspective of … project management, while they never questioned why those factors, such as lack of the top-management support and training … institutional arrangements are essential for better safety performance in a construction industry. Province-level construction …

the ways in which labour-only subcontracting and self-employment hinder training and innovation. …This paper explores the issues around the remarkable growth in labour-only subcontracting on a selfemployment basis in …

-2001. The safety investments made by both contractors and society are also identified based on data assembled for these three … years. These social costs and safety investments were identified from 119 construction projects involving 1414 accidents and … from 18 government departments in Hong Kong. The data shows that there was an increasing trend in social safety investments …

, environmental and industrial construction). Empirical and census data are used to understand the subcontracting and self …

the safety investment and the AOI. From these two curves, the optimal safety investment on a building site by a contractor … could be determined. It was found that the minimum safety investment on a building project is about 0.6% of the contract sum … consecutive days through injury. If first-aid-only and non-injury accidents were also considered, the minimum safety investment …

regular safety meetings between managers and workers, implementing informal training to supplement formal training, and … address this issue, differences in safety attitudes and behaviours were explored among construction workers, first …-line supervisors, and project managers in small residential construction companies with respect to recommendations for safety …