Purpose: This paper systematically reviewed research work on drivers of teamwork, which will reinforce construction work teams to enhance workers’ safety performance. This study adds to the existing but limited understanding of teamwork drivers on construction workers’ safety performance. This paper presents scholars and industry-based professionals with critical initiatives that have to be implemented in organisations to get positive results in safety while working in teams with an emphasis on systems drivers of teamwork on safety performance at the organisational level, which will help in providing information on the functioning of the teams and contribute towards improved safety performance of team workers.Design/methodology/approach: This study aims to systematically examine the existing body of knowledge on drivers of teamwork by analysing 53 publications from the years 1997–2021. The Scopus search engine was used to conduct a systematic review and germane publications were collated.Findings: According to the findings of the review, since 1997, there has been a burgeoning concern in the research of drivers of teamwork and its impact on workers’ safety performance. After performing a systematic review, 37 drivers of teamwork were identified. The top five drivers are effective communications, team workers’ relations, leadership, shared knowledge and information, and team training. Moreover, it was noted that the United States and Australia have been the international regions of focus for most of the research in the area of drivers of teamwork from the years 1997–2021. The 37 drivers of teamwork are distributed into six major socio-technical components: people drivers; culture drivers; metrics drivers; organisational and management practices and procedures drivers; infrastructure drivers and technology drivers.Practical implications: The results reported present research scholars and professional practitioners with an overview of the drivers of teamwork that could be implemented in the construction industry to streamline potential implementations and improve safety performance of construction workers.Originality/value: A list of teamwork drivers has been developed to ratify potential empirical research in the area of construction safety. The results would contribute to the existing but restricted understanding of drivers of teamwork in the construction industry.

A Lean Enterprise Construction-aligned learning game is an opportunity to meet the industry's needs and wants. Competitive Simulation can offer such an alignment by using an online system as a medium to instruct. Learning three critical components: vocabulary, concepts, and processes, as well as game-based learning, allows students to acquire knowledge and skills through an interactive and entertaining learning experience to achieve the purpose of real-time teaching. As a result, many educators have adopted gamification in various disciplines in the tertiary sector to enhance learning and teaching. This paper will discuss applying the MERIT game to Lean Construction Learning through a case study within a leading Australian university. The case study incorporates the Merit Game and relevant organisational management content into an undergraduate construction management program. Its focus is Lean Enterprise principles and concepts. Overall, students reported a positive learning experience with higherorder learning outcomes while identifying good practices incorporated into future delivery programs. The case study findings will inform academics and training professionals about the potential of the MERIT game, if tailored, for teaching Lean Construction at the enterprise level.

Construction work is hazardous. Construction workers appear to play a large role in determining their safety own through their behaviours, either taking or rejecting risks. To improve safety behaviours of construction workers, safety training programs traditionally incorporate instruction techniques such as lectures and case studies. These methods have shortcomings in knowledge retention, motivation, engagement, and attentional distribution, resulting in fewer hazards identified by trainees. To address this issue, there has been a trend of immersive safety training applications, which provide employees with a realistic visual experience. This study aims to review the status of construction safety training and education using immersive learning technology. The findings indicate steady growth in the use of augmented reality and virtual reality technologies to develop safety training platforms in construction. Limited hands-on experience with real working conditions and limited customising training experience are two major challenges in delivering construction safety training and education using immersive learning technology. It is suggested to foster the synergy of immersive technology advancement, creation of construction field data, and innovation in training methods. The results of this study provide a useful reference for developing more effective safety training platforms, which have a close-to-reality representation and stimulate more safe behaviours.