ENGLISH

Construction Safety

By Rita Yi Man Li , Sun Wah Poon (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2013
ISBN
978-3-642-35045-0, 978-3-642-35046-7
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-35046-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4684517 bytes)
Series
Risk Engineering
Edition
1
Pages
159\161
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Construction Management; Quality of Life Research;ReliabilitySafety and Risk

Description

A close-to-ideal blend of suburb and city, speedy construction of towers of Babylon, the sparkling proportion of glass and steel buildings’ facade at night showcase the wisdom of humans. They also witness the footsteps, sweats and tears of architects and engineers. Unfortunately, these signatures of human civilizations are swathed in towering figures of construction accidents. Fretting about these on sites, different countries adopt different measures on sites. This book firstly sketches the construction accidents on sites, followed by a review on safety measures in some of the developing countries such as Bermuda, Egypt, Kuwait and China; as well as developed countries, for example, the United States, France and Singapore. It also highlights the enormous compensation costs with the courts’ experiences in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong.

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