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Construction methods in developing countries such as China are gradually industrializing due to rising labor costs, new techniques, tools, procedures and management methods. This makes it essential to develop new risk evaluation and control methods. Previous research seems to ignore the risk management of the application of new construction technologies and procedures. The identification of risk mechanisms is unclear, leading to a lack of clear guidance for risk avoidance and control. This paper describes a network model based on meta-network analysis of project objectives, risk events, risk factors and stakeholders in the construction process of building industrialization. According to ISO 31000, the main processes of risk management in the model has three parts: risk identification, risk analysis and evaluation, and risk treatment and control. Risk factors are identified from previous literature and site investigation, and the indirect impact on project objectives is analyzed and calculated with the networks in the meta-network. The order of importance is evaluated and used as the foundation of risk treatment and control. The analysis of the crucial risk factors makes it possible to identify the stakeholders who influence them, leading to suggestions for relevant control strategies. A residential building construction project in South China that uses the building industrialization construction system serves as a case study to verify the feasibility and applicability of the risk management system. Results show that critical risk factors are construction-related factors and design-related factors. The water and electricity engineers, the project manager, the project secretary, the field engineer, the project supervisor and the main contractor engineer have a significant influence on the risk factors. A stakeholder supervision system with targeted risk control strategies is proposed.

Ruptures and interruptions in supply chains (SC) can cause large financial losses and undermine the reputation of firms. In this respect, there is growing interest among researchers in the theme of supply chain risk management (SCRM). SCRM involves analysis carried out in various steps. However, researchers diverge over the number and content of these steps. In light of this problem, the aim of the present study was to analyze whether it is possible to apply the ISO 31000 standard as a systematic procedure for SCRM. And, if so, how the standard can be implemented in the SCRM context, as a framework in a specific company. Through a systematic literature review, we compared and harmonized the risk management steps proposed by researches about SCRM. Additionally we developed a pathway to identify and prioritize which ISO 31000:2009 risk assessment tools and techniques are supposed to integrate a procedure for SCRM, based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), exemplified in an automotive supply chain. Based on the research findings, we infer that ISO 31000 can be used beneficially as a standardized method to perform SCRM, as long as tools and techniques are selected according to the company needs and business characteristics.

Since few articles address risk issues related to solid waste management, although it is evident that waste management is not immune to risks, the present research aims to analyze the risk management process in programming and loading of solid waste from a company in the steel sector, based on the ISO 31000. Methodologically, the research was supported by a case study, that applied documentary research, direct observation and semi-structured interviews with professionals with extensive experience. As main results, it was observed that the risk identification stage pointed out the “bad segregation or contamination of the waste” as the risk with the greatest potential impact on the operations, since in the event of its occurrence, it may compromise a relevant percentage of the company’s revenue with co-products from the sale of solid waste, in addition to environmental impacts through the release of a wide variety of polluting products, endangering human health and biodiversity. As a main conclusion, it is observed that the risk management process applied to the reverse logistics of steel residues has the ability to organize proactive actions so that risks are identified, analyzed and evaluated, minimizing their occurrence and promoting risk mitigation actions.