Managing Health and Safety in Construction
It is essential to find optimal ways of managing health and safety in construction. If a builder has built a house for a man and his work is not strong, and if the house he has built falls in and kills the householder, that builder shall be slain.
Construction is a dangerous industry for two reasons: one is the intrinsically hazardous nature of the work; the other is the result of the industry’s structural and organizational challenges for risk management.
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Construction is a dangerous job. Worldwide, the ILO has estimated that it accounts for 100,000 fatalities annually, some 30 to 40% of fatal occupational injuries overall. Therefore, the risk of serious injury or death at work in this sector is considerably greater than in others. Estimates further suggest that construction workers in advanced market economies are three to four times more likely to suffer a fatal accident at work than the average for other economic sectors.
How Can We Manage Health and Safety in Construction?
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- Define possible safety risks at and around the construction site. Apart from noting obvious risks, identify smaller risks your workers may not think of immediately—for example, areas that require safety gloves or a small hazard of shock. Use a careful eye to look at the construction site, and don’t forget to write down any of your concerns over various areas of the site and potential problems.
- Develop protocols for those areas by identifying risks and determining a way to reduce or combat them. For example, if there is an area where flying wood chips may be a problem, establish a protocol for putting on safety glasses when working close to the wood-cutting machines. You may ask for employee input to help with actions to address common safety problems.
- Coach your employees and anyone coming to the construction site about safety practices. If possible, conduct a job site-wide meeting where you briefly discuss safety and why it is significant, besides introducing new rules and regulations.
- Use visualization to remind your workers to obey new safety rules. Post clear, brief, readable signs near potential dangers. It will be better if you use cautionary, bright colors—for example, yellow, orange, red—to capture your employees’ attention.
- Discipline employees who refuse to follow the safety protocol. Though they may consider it silly, it is a precedent relating to the significance of safety procedures. Remind your workers that safety protocols cannot be negotiated and must be adhered to for their own good. Anyone who fails to obey can be assigned a different duty inaccessible to the construction zone or be sent home for the day. Being strict about rules is synonymous with effectively managing construction safety and keeping everyone at the construction site safe and sound.
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25It is essential to find optimal ways of managing health and safety in construction. If a builder has built a house for a man and his work is not strong, and if the house he has built falls in and kills the householder, that builder shall be slain.
Construction is a dangerous industry for two reasons: one is the intrinsically hazardous nature of the work; the other is the result of the industry’s structural and organizational challenges for risk management.
[img]https://vietnamlabor.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/health-safety-for-construction-workers.jpg?w=682[/img]
Construction is a dangerous job. Worldwide, the ILO has estimated that it accounts for 100,000 fatalities annually, some 30 to 40% of fatal occupational injuries overall. Therefore, the risk of serious injury or death at work in this sector is considerably greater than in others. Estimates further suggest that construction workers in advanced market economies are three to four times more likely to suffer a fatal accident at work than the average for other economic sectors.
How Can We Manage Health and Safety in Construction?
[img]https://vietnamlabor.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/how-can-we-manage-health-and-safety-in-construction.jpg?w=682&h=452[/img]
- Define possible safety risks at and around the construction site. Apart from noting obvious risks, identify smaller risks your workers may not think of immediately—for example, areas that require safety gloves or a small hazard of shock. Use a careful eye to look at the construction site, and don’t forget to write down any of your concerns over various areas of the site and potential problems.
- Develop protocols for those areas by identifying risks and determining a way to reduce or combat them. For example, if there is an area where flying wood chips may be a problem, establish a protocol for putting on safety glasses when working close to the wood-cutting machines. You may ask for employee input to help with actions to address common safety problems.
- Coach your employees and anyone coming to the construction site about safety practices. If possible, conduct a job site-wide meeting where you briefly discuss safety and why it is significant, besides introducing new rules and regulations.
- Use visualization to remind your workers to obey new safety rules. Post clear, brief, readable signs near potential dangers. It will be better if you use cautionary, bright colors—for example, yellow, orange, red—to capture your employees’ attention.
- Discipline employees who refuse to follow the safety protocol. Though they may consider it silly, it is a precedent relating to the significance of safety procedures. Remind your workers that safety protocols cannot be negotiated and must be adhered to for their own good. Anyone who fails to obey can be assigned a different duty inaccessible to the construction zone or be sent home for the day. Being strict about rules is synonymous with effectively managing construction safety and keeping everyone at the construction site safe and sound.
Source: Managing health and safety in the construction industry
Other career advice: Blog
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From Vietnam, Hanoi
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Dear friend,
It is really fantastic! Can we provide training on how to be precaution-oriented in the workplace/environment? This will help the workers remain careful with the nature of their work. Additionally, they should be educated about the aftermath of accidents/incidents in their lives and taking life-saving measures is crucial. Of course, the construction industry should adhere to all these formalities on their sites.
From India, Arcot
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It is really fantastic! Can we provide training on how to be precaution-oriented in the workplace/environment? This will help the workers remain careful with the nature of their work. Additionally, they should be educated about the aftermath of accidents/incidents in their lives and taking life-saving measures is crucial. Of course, the construction industry should adhere to all these formalities on their sites.
From India, Arcot
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