Summary
This project is being done in collaboration with the Construction Safety Research Alliance at the University of Colorado.
The project involves interviewing a diverse sample of industry stakeholders, including construction client and contractor organisations, regulators and trade unions to understand the attributes, sources and consequences of clutter in occupational health and safety management systems in the construction industries of Australia and New Zealand. In-depth process mapping is being conducted to understand how and where clutter forms within the construction industry ecosystem.
The research team will then:
(i) engage in a collaborative process to develop consensus about specific activities or artefacts that can be considered safety clutter among industry stakeholders, and
(ii) develop a structured, collaborative approach for industry stakeholders to systematically identify and reduce safety clutter in health and safety management activities.
Project team
- Scott McMillan (Project Lead)
- Rita Peihua Zhang (Academic Lead)
- Helen Lingard (Chief Investigator)
- Payam Pirzadeh (Chief Investigator)
- Huey Wen Lim (Research Fellow)
- Daniel Devaney (McConnell Dowell)
- Stephen Smilevski (Melbourne Park)
- Jono Morrow (Laing O'Rourke)
- Paul Breslin (Multiplex)
- Ashlea Moroney (HammerTech)
- Paul Williams (Simonds Homes)
- Gavin Kenny (Opal)
Outputs
- Decluttering health and safety management activities in construction: A process mapping tool (PDF 1.8 MB)
- Zhang, R. P., Lingard, H., Lim, H. W., & Pirzadeh, P. (2025). Decluttering health and safety management activities in construction: Research report (PDF 2.2 MB). RMIT University, Melbourne.
- Lim, H.W., Lingard, H., Zhang, R., & Pirzadeh, P. (2025). Decluttering safety: A multistakeholder approach to enhancing safety management in construction (PDF 662 KB): Position Paper. RMIT University, Melbourne.
