Construction has been significantly affected by COVID-19 yet is critical to the post-COVID economic recovery. Specifically, construction needs to be constantly aware of safety and risk balanced with timely project delivery. Guidance for COVID-19 must therefore be implemented in a way that reflects working practice and pressures. There is, however, a potential knowledge gap regarding the practical feasibility and impact of applying COVID-19 measures within construction, made more difficult by factors such as the temporary nature of projects and complex working arrangements. This article presents a commentary on safe construction during, and beyond, COVID-19, covering the human factors challenges and practicalities of implementing COVID-19 measures. We observe that while guidance is strong on risk management, understanding of how best to implement this guidance is not yet stable. Also, care must be taken that implementing guidance does not detract from general safety, which is also challenged by increased pressures on delivery arising from COVID-19. There may, however, be opportunities for safer working practice arising from new awareness of health, hygiene, and safety risk. The role of safety leadership is overlooked in guidance yet is vital to ensure safe application of COVID-19 working practices. The key message is that COVID-19 needs to be integrated and promoted within a general risk management approach, in part because this takes account of differing priorities regarding safety risks, rather than overly focussing on COVID-19, and also because the effectiveness of COVID-19 mitigations can be amplified by integration with pre-existing safety processes.

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COVID-19 对建筑业健康和安全的影响

建筑业已受到 COVID-19 的显着影响，但对 COVID-19 后的经济复苏至关重要。具体而言，建设需要不断意识到安全和风险与及时的项目交付平衡。因此，必须以反映工作实践和压力的方式实施 COVID-19 指南。然而，在施工中应用 COVID-19 措施的实际可行性和影响方面存在潜在的知识差距，由于项目的临时性和复杂的工作安排等因素而变得更加困难。本文对 COVID-19 期间及之后的安全施工进行了评论，涵盖了实施 COVID-19 措施的人为因素挑战和实用性。我们观察到，虽然风险管理方面的指导很强，但 对如何最好地实施该指南的理解尚不稳定。此外，必须注意实施指南不会减损一般安全性，这也受到 COVID-19 带来的分娩压力增加的挑战。然而，由于对健康、卫生和安全风险的新认识，可能会有机会进行更安全的工作实践。安全领导的作用在指导中被忽视，但对于确保 COVID-19 工作实践的安全应用至关重要。关键信息是，需要在一般风险管理方法中整合和推广 COVID-19，部分原因是这考虑到了有关安全风险的不同优先事项，而不是过度关注 COVID-19，