TY  - CONF
TI  - Occupational Stress in Construction: Fostering an IGLC Research Agenda
C1  - Lille, France
C3  - Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC31)
SP  - 423
EP  - 434
PY  - 2023
DO  - 10.24928/2023/0198
AU  - Sarhan, Saad
AU  - Pretlove, Stephen
AU  - Mossman, Alan
AU  - Elshafie, Mohammed Z.E.B
AD  - Senior lecturer in construction management, Lincoln School of Architecture and the Built Environment,  University of Lincoln, United Kingdom, ssarhan@lincoln.ac.uk, orcid.org/0000-0002-0105-2350
AD  - Professor of Sustainable Construction, Lincoln School of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of  Lincoln, United Kingdom, spretlove@lincoln.ac.uk 
AD  - The Change Business; +44 7968 485627, alanmossman@mac.com, orcid.org/0000-0003-1769-9164 
AD  - Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, College of  Engineering, Qatar University, melshafie@qu.edu.qa, orcid.org/0000-0001-9908-5515  
AB  - Globally mental health is a serious concern, particularly in construction. According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE, 2021), stress, anxiety, and depression are the second biggest cause of work-related ill health in the UK construction industry. Occupational stress and mental health issues should, therefore, be treated with the same level of significance as physical health and safety risks in construction. To the authors’ knowledge, there are very few, if any, published empirical IGLC papers that have explicitly focused on this concern. This study was conducted using case-study interviews and a focus group with industry experts, to explore and promote the concept of ‘occupational stress’ in construction. The study provides novel contributions to knowledge, which include: identifying seven main sources of stress (i.e. stressor) in UK construction projects, revealing ‘workflow interruptions’ as a prevalent and severe source of stress in construction, shedding some empirical light on the inadequacies of the critical path method, and generating new questions and proposals to pave the way towards a future IGLC research agenda for tackling occupational stress and mental health issues in construction.
KW  - Lean construction
KW  - stress
KW  - mental health
KW  - flow
KW  - waste
PB  - 
T2  - Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC31)
DA  - 2023/06/26
CY  - Lille, France
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2133/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2133
N1  - Export Date: 19 April 2025
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -