Climate change impacts on workplace safety and health in the facilities management sector

This study conducted with NUS School of Design and Environment involves a systematic assessment of climate change impacts on workplace safety and health (WSH) risks in the built environment industry. This industry faces a comparatively high level of WSH risks but stakeholders in SE Asia generally have low awareness of the potential impacts of climate change on the spectrum and level of risk. The study develops a method for climate risk identification and assessment and applies the method to facilities management work in Singapore, with a view to broadening the application to the built environment sector as a whole and to other locations, in particular tropical cities.