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Journal Article
Health and safety challenges among post-disaster reconstruction workers
2023
Overview
With the increase in the number of natural hazards in recent years, post-disaster reconstruction (PDR) efforts have become increasingly important to aid community recovery. Accordingly, a large body of recent research has focused on identifying the best practices for accelerating recovery and restoring impacted communities. However, relatively little attention has been devoted to the health and safety challenges experienced by reconstruction workers that aid post-disaster recovery and reconstruction efforts. The current investigation focused on addressing this knowledge gap by seeking to uncover the health and safety challenges that reconstruction workers experienced in the context of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal - that was responsible for nearly 9,000 deaths and 22,000 injuries. The data collection effort involved in-depth interviews with several stakeholders, including construction workers, supervisors, site engineers, general contractors, homeowners, and governmental officials. This study enhances our understanding of the health and safety challenges experienced by PDR workers. The study also offers insight on how the obtained knowledge can be leveraged by government and stakeholders with supervisory roles to ensure proper health, safety, and wellbeing of the reconstruction workers. Additionally, the findings of this study contributes to the body of knowledge by identifying unique health and safety challenges in the post-disaster reconstruction context. Also, the study opens a door for future research efforts on reconstruction workers health and safety.
Publisher
UTS ePress,U T S ePRESS (University of Technology Sydney),UTS ePRESS
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