Safety and Risk Management in Canberra Construction Company Health Case Analysis

Running Head: Safety and Risk Management
Safety and Risk Management
Canberra Construction Company Health Case Analysis

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Safety and Risk Management
Executive Summary
Every workplace must be kept safe and the atmosphere of the firm should be kept healthy so that
it becomes easy for all the employees to work in comfort. This report analyses a case in which a
truck driver got electrocuted because of the mistake of the firm (Kenoss Contractors) he was
working for. The firm was ethically wrong due to which a truck driver died. This report
described the background of the case with the factors with the help of which this incident could
have been avoided.

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Safety and Risk Management
The whole concept of the safety culture rose earlier when there were so many health and safety
issues taking place. It is always debated that the safety culture displays a naïve method of
conceptualizing processes of handling the risks and management in the firm and other contexts.
The safety culture gives global characteristics of few common behavioral preconditions to
disasters and accidents in huge risk technical systems. The health and safety measures are
necessary by all the construction company especially as the construction companies include the
safety of public and not just in the organization. This essay focuses on the company Kenoss
Contractors which is a construction company and its safety issues it went through in 2012
(Taylor, 2015).
Kenoss Contractors is an engineering and construction company based in Australia. Kenoss
Contractors Pvt. Ltd. was incepted in the year 1995 and it deals in the business of highways and
street construction. It is a company of 50 employees and is a small enterprise. Since the company
deals in the management of the highways and street construction, it really has a huge liability and
duty to make people aware of the hazards if any on the ways by putting a signal or blocking him
ways where there is a chance of any hazard. In the year 2012, it was fined for $1.1 million since
a truck driver died under the national work safety laws (Linkedin, 2018).
There are a few of the hazards which can take place in the construction sites. The major and the
most dangerous are falling from the heights. This majorly happens when there is some work
going on in the construction of a building. This type of hazard usually occurs with the
contractors who work on such sites. Then there are struck-by Hazards. These hazards are the
major cause of the construction accidents. 72% of these accidents consist of the heavy equipment
and one is four struck-by-vehicle deaths consist of the construction workers. In this case too, it
was a hazard which can be called as Struck-by. There are many other hazards which causes in
the field of construction (Kanchana & Joseph, 2015).
There are multiple factors with the help of which the safety breaches could be avoided. They are:
Start with Training: All the workers should be given the training as to how they can avoid the
breach and fatal accidents which are caused in construction field.