Site Supervision
Are there any code, by-laws, rules, regulation, standard or specific requirements to comply with?
Occupational Safety & Health Act 1994 also as known as OSHA 1994 is the one of the good act achieved in our country. OSHA 1994 is to protect the employer and employee of welfare, safety and health at the workplace. Furthermore, example of regulation of OSHA as below :
A part from this, rules that need to comply are :
Section 15 General Duties of Employers and Self-employed Persons to Their Employees
- Given instruction, detail information, supervision and beneficial training.
- Given and provide maintenance the workplace and safe access area.
- Given and provide maintenance the work environment is safe and without any hazard that
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Section 26 Training & Supervision
- All the employee are not allow to control the machine at the workplace unless the employee are experienced person or full guide.
Section 35 Building Operation & Works of Engineering Construction
- Made the formulate form to the inspector within 7 days about the notification.
- To exemption the work that not really need the machinery or the work are enable to completed less the 1 and the half month.
Section 36 Installation of Machinery, etc.
- Without the approval letter from the inspector, employee are not allow to install any machinery. Besides, without the COF from the inspector, machinery also cant be use by the employees.
[The Commissioner of Law Revision Malaysia. 2006. ] [Ahmad, D. 2015]
What are the roles, duties and responsibilities of the project team members and if these are not carried out competently what will the impact on the project
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Every one of them have their own role, duties and responsibilities when working at the place of the work. Worker is the one that work under the operate of the contractor on the site. For those the worker that have huge experience, knowledge and appropriate skill, he or she can conduct the work. Furthermore, worker are provided with safety and health training and supervision to make sure all of them can work without risk to their personal health, aware of the risk at the workplace and also must follow all the rule and procedure that are already fix by OSHA. Co-operate between the worker and the duty holder are important at the site too. [Health and Safety Executive. 2015.] A part from this, consultant is tolerance certain areas of work to help your organization. As the consultant need to given the subject matter expertise to all the related client for every engineering work. Consultant need to solve all the problem facing and the design the effective coordinate and resolution with customer management. Moreover, with the required timeframe, consultant need to be carry out all the fiscal and the working processes. [The Denver Foundation. 2015.
The permit of work is to be issued to allow the work to go ahead. It must include marking the point of work as well as showing the competent person the safety arrangements that are in place for the duration of the work
Countermeasures have been implemented to address site specific safety issues by making each employee complete 10-hour or 30-hour OSHA training, depending on their position in the company.
Ask staff to raise work health and safety matters during regular discussions such as recent incidents, maintenance issues, suggested improvements etc.
In the United States alone there is 257 Federal Regulatory Agencies. Each one having their own set of standards, regulations and compliance laws. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in one such agency that exist under the United States Department of Labor. Even healthcare giants like Kaiser Permanente have to be within complain with OSHA regulations or face fines for violations. While there are many things that could harm you in a work environment, OSHA has rules in place to make sure that the likelihood of harm is controlled through proper training, protective measures, and worker’s rights.
A great part of the manager’s responsibility would be to try and make the workplace safe that would instill the employee’s desire to work safely. With safety rules in place, reviewed, and enforced it is important for a manager to make sure they are known and understood by the staff. • Explain what causes unsafe acts.
Workers obligations are to identify, control or remove safety hazard if can, or reporting it to the safety officers. Workers main obligation is to take responsibility for their own safety and others.
1.4 – State why and when health and safety control equipment, identified by the principles of protection, should be used relating to types, purpose and limitations of each type, the work situation, occupational use and the general work environment, in relation to:
Being the present manager and being appointed by the government at the feasibility stage I am asked to write a report in order to outline the activities required to successfully manage this major project and to ensure that it is completed on time and within budget.
All the OSHA standards are listed in the CFR 1910 (general industry) and 1926 (construction) books. This can be a useful tool that can answer any questions an employee may have regarding safety. The book needs to be in an assessable location and the employees need to be given that location during the new hire orientation process. These books are very inexpensive, but they are good tools and a good quick reference to any OSHA safety regulation you need the answer for. If an employee wants to know anything about PPE or equipment safety, the CFR has the answer. I would suggest if the company does not have a copy of this book readily available for employees to look at, on a daily basis is necessary, that they buy one and educated the supervisors and managers on how to read and understand the information and standards outlined in the
This also require employers to consult with trade union safety representative on matters of health and safety issues. More than five employers should have written health and safety policy for all the employees. Employers are responsible for premises, plant and machinery so employers have to carry out regular health and safety check to ensure that premises and machinery do not endanger the employees by using them. It also requires employers to prevent harmful chemical or offensive emissions into the atmosphere. Employees have duty to take reasonable care of their own health and safety.
Section 8 of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act (2005) puts the onus on the employer to ensure systems of work that are planned, organised, performed, maintained and revised as appropriate so as to be, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe and without risk to health. Section 19 of the Act requires the employer to conduct a risk assessment of work activities and Schedule 3 of the Act provides the general principles of prevention to ensure the safety of employees in the workplace.
Whether such consultants would need to be credentialed and accredited is yet to be determined. 10.4 Usefulness of the Concept to the Current
They must also ensure that employees follow all safety guidelines and procedures. Workers must receive adequate training in their specific work tasks to protect their health and safety. Workers must
Employers have a legal obligation to inform employees about safety and health standards that apply to their workplace. Employers must establish a written, comprehensive hazard communication program to ensure that employees who work with or near hazardous materials...
As well as they are the only bodies that is really responsible for the construction safety effort. In any case if they not provide the safety attempts and some bad incident occurred then they are responsible for the critical case. The criteria are to be settled by the constructors. The most important and considerable thing in this regard is the health problems that can be suffered by the workers in some of the cases.