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<p>We aim to draw in-depth insights into the current literature in construction health and safety and provide perspectives for future research efforts. The existing literature on construction health and safety is not only diverse and rich in sight, but also complex and fragmented in structure. It is essential for the construction industry and research community to understand the overall development and existing challenges of construction health and safety to adapt to future new code of practice and challenges in this field. We mapped the topic landscape followed by identifying the salient development trajectories of this research area over time. We used the topic modeling algorithm to extract 10 distinct topics from 662 abstracts (filtered from a total of 895) of articles published between 1991 and 2020. In addition, we provided the most cited references and the most popular journal per topic as well. The results from a time series analysis suggested that the construction health and safety would maintain its popularity in the next 5 years. Research efforts would be devoted to the topics including “Physical health and disease”, “Migrant and race”, “Vocational ability and training”, and “Smart devices.” Among these topics, “Smart devices” would be the most promising one.</p>
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We aim to draw in-depth insights into the current literature in construction health and safety and provide perspectives for future research efforts. The existing literature on construction health and safety is not only diverse and rich in sight, but also complex and fragmented in structure. It is essential for the construction industry and research community to understand the overall development and existing challenges of construction health and safety to adapt to future new code of practice and challenges in this field. We mapped the topic landscape followed by identifying the salient development trajectories of this research area over time. We used the topic modeling algorithm to extract 10 distinct topics from 662 abstracts (filtered from a total of 895) of articles published between 1991 and 2020. In addition, we provided the most cited references and the most popular journal per topic as well. The results from a time series analysis suggested that the construction health and safety would maintain its popularity in the next 5 years. Research efforts would be devoted to the topics including “Physical health and disease”, “Migrant and race”, “Vocational ability and training”, and “Smart devices.” Among these topics, “Smart devices” would be the most promising one.

Construction health and safety: A topic landscape study

Organization, Technology and Management in Construction: an International Journal

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We aim to draw in-depth insights into the current literature in construction health and safety and provide perspectives for future research efforts. The...

Construction health and safety: A topic landscape study

Article Category: Research paper

Published Online: Oct 09, 2021

Page range: 2472 - 2483

Received: Jul 30, 2020

Accepted: Jul 14, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/otmcj-2021-0027

Keywords
construction health and safety, occupational health, topic landscape, content analysis, time series analysis

© 2021 Xiaorui Cao et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Construction health and safety: A topic landscape study

Article Category: Research paper

Published Online: Oct 09, 2021

Page range: 2472 - 2483

Received: Jul 30, 2020

Accepted: Jul 14, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/otmcj-2021-0027

Keywordsconstruction health and safety, occupational health, topic landscape, content analysis, time series analysis

© 2021 Xiaorui Cao et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
construction health and safety, occupational health, topic landscape, content analysis, time series analysis