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doi:10.3850/978-981-08-7920-4_S1-CS11-cd
Is there a Correlation between Contractor’s Health and Safety Performance and their Profit Margin?
Shamil Naoum, Brian Hemmings and Daniel Fong
Department of the Built Environment, London South Bank University, London, United Kingdom.
ABSTRACT
This paper analyses the relationship of on-site health and safety performance and the anticipated
profit margin. It reports on the main findings of the research which includes the analysis
of historical safety records of 22 construction projects and their profit margins. A scoring system
was adapted to measure performance and profit. Analysis of the results indicates that the better
the health and safety score of a project the more profit that project is likely tomake and vice versa.
In short, projects that recorded safety incidents during construction have also made a loss in
their profit margins as a result of fall in productivity, disruption and penalties.
Keywords: Health and safety, Construction project, Performance, Productivity, Profit.
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