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The excess load of work and poor fatigue management could also affect the workers’ performance resulting in incidents such as downtime or low performance and unsafe acts or unsafe conditions such as slips, lapses, or mistakes, if not managed well. It is worth mentioning that under-tasking employees negatively affects their performance, raising concerns such as lack of enthusiasm, loss of awareness, dullness, and loss of alertness. The workload assigned to employees has a significant impact during downsizing or temporarily peak times. It is related to working schedules, organization, and the levels of employees. In some construction companies, the skilled labor supply does not match the workload. The higher the workload, the higher the safety implications on workers, this not only does not affect job satisfaction negatively but also leads to high staff shortage and turnover. A critical evaluation and management of workload needs to be investigated to identify whether a construction firm is under-staffed; the magnitude of the existence of additional workload or if employees are capable of coping during incidents, emergencies, accidents, or process distress, hence the reason for this research.