ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to critically explore the shift in the positioning of worker health, safety and well-being (HSW) and its rationalization under the influences of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and to reveal how corporate control and commodification exist within the seemingly altruistic context of HSW on construction sites. It explores some specifics of CSR within the construction industry, before looking at one aspect in particular: the HSW of construction workers. The real interests of construction workers are likely to be a balance of good occupational and public HSW management, but what this looks like should not be dictated by government, much less commercial organisations with vested interests in worker output and the ability to shape the discourse to any significant extent. The industry needs to embrace the ideas of valuing people in construction in its operations, looking to address the fundamental issues of occupational HSW in practice, before looking beyond this to try to change the world.
