TY  - CONF
TI  - Worker Well-being, Suicide, and Lean Construction – Unravelling the Global Silent Killer
C1  - Osaka and Kyoto, Japan
C3  - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 33)
SP  - 1058
EP  - 1069
PY  - 2025
DO  - 10.24928/2025/0200
AU  - Araki, Matthew S.
AU  - Smith, James P.
AD  - Undergraduate Student, Construction Management, Brigham Young University, Utah, USA, ma834@byu.edu
AD  - Professor, Civil and Construction Engineering Department, Brigham Young University, Utah, USA, jamessmith@byu.edu, orcid.org/0000-0001-8925-5680
ED  - Seppänen, Olli 
ED  - Koskela, Lauri 
ED  - Murata , Koichi 
AB  - Contemporary studies reveal that suicide rates in the construction industry have soared in the past two decades. Suicide in the industry is an international form of social waste that threatens the pursuits of lean theory. This study aims to advance the IGLC body of repertoire by i) providing an in-depth analysis of the status of the well-being of construction workers along with corresponding suicide patterns on a global scale based on contemporary studies, ii) establishing a connection between lean construction and industry-specific suicide risk factors and proposing a relevant framework for mitigating social waste, iii) proposing methods for intervention and future research for advancement. A total of 20 contemporary studies were carefully selected to be synthesized for this semi-systematic literature review. The CARE framework was proposed as a guideline for mitigating social waste. This paper promotes critical international cooperation and action and advances the concept of social waste within lean theory.
KW  - Lean construction; suicide; waste; respect for people; mental health
PB  - 
T2  - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 33)
DA  - 2025/06/02
CY  - Osaka and Kyoto, Japan
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2373/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2373
N1  - Export Date: 02 June 2025
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -