Health And Safety In Construction Case Study

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1. INTRODUCTION
The Health and Safety management is one of the most important functions in the construction industry. Among all, health and safety has to be given initial priority in this sector. Accident rates are high in construction sector compared to the other sectors (Bust et al, 2008; Gregory and Simon, 2006; Wang et al, 2006). The things affected due to accidents in site are costs, time and quality sometimes. The company has to bare the costs of the accident that has taken place on site and the budget will be more than the actual budget. Health and safety is an important factor in construction because without safety the other things also get disturbed. For example, if a labour meets with an accident while execution of the project the …show more content…

AWARENESS OF HEALTH AND SAFETY
The three key factors that a health and safety management has to cover are quality, safety and environment measures. In safety, hazards are minimised and required facilities are provided. In environment, we need to minimise pollution and reuse the waste materials if possible. ‘Construction management has a perpetual and unswerving challenge to ensure a safe working environment’ (Griffith and Howarth, 2000). Company has to bring awareness among the people by educating them regarding health and safety. This can be done in many ways
Induction: Providing complete information about how important the safety is in the site. This program should be conducted before they start the work in site and this should be in such a way that every person in the site follow the rules. In this program the importance of PPEs (personal protective equipment) should be taught. Usage of helmets, safety shoes, gloves, ear plugs, safety belts etc should be known by them and make sure that people wear it.
In this induction session a labour has to know the importance of PPE.
• Helmet: He/she should know the reason for wearing a helmet that if a small stone falls from a height the weight of the stone will increase and that may hit hard to head so by using a helmet it can be

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