This edited book presents a significant and timely contribution to our understanding of a broad range of issues pertaining to COVID-19 and its relationship to occupational safety, health and well-being (OSHW) in the global construction industry. The editors first introduce the industry and its poor OSHW history before highlighting some of the broader impacts of the pandemic on the sector. The book is then divided into two sections. Section One focuses on the management of COVID-19 transmission risk. It captures insights, practices, technologies, and lessons learned in relation to what has and is being done to prevent or mitigate the risk of COVID-19 transmission among the construction workforce. Construction Safety, Health and Well-being in the COVID-19 era also details case studies, lessons and best practices for managing sites and workforces when infections inevitably do occur. Section Two brings together international chapters discussing the impacts of COVID-19 on the OSHW of the construction workforce both on and off site as well as the management of those impacts. Furthermore, this presents implications of the pandemic (at the short, medium, and long-term) for other performance measures of construction projects such as cost, schedule, quality, and most importantly how the pursuit/non-pursuit of such performance measures have impacted/will impact the OSHW of construction workers and professionals in the industry. This book addresses the gap in literature by offering global perspectives on the OSHW impacts and implications of COVID-19 in the construction industry and will help its wide readership (including construction industry organisations, professionals, researchers, government bodies/policy makers, and students) to understand a broad suite of issues pertaining to COVID-19 and its relationship to OSHW in construction.

There are current worldwide pressures and the challenges facing industrial organizations is to reduce manufacturing costs in order to compete effectively. Maintenance cost forms an enormous part of the manufacturing cost, and this has led to the continuous search for a cost-effective maintenance practice such as condition-based maintenance. This book therefore provides a stepwise approach for the determination of the need for condition monitoring, the selection of equipment to be monitored, the implementation of a complete condition monitoring system as well as operating the condition monitoring system. It also provides details on how to identify the different faults associated with different machine components, with special reference to Cement and Coal Plants. This book should be useful especially to professionals in the field of maintenance or anyone else who may be interested in fully implementing Condition-based maintenance.