Manage Health & Safety in Construction Workplace

This text discusses the identification of possible health and safety risks in the workplace and the development of a health and risk assessment that explores the nature of such risks and the possible control measures. It covers the classification of risks, methods for identification of risk, and the hierarchy of controls and administrative controls and PPE.

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1 Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment
1.1 Introduction
This task entails the identification of possible health and safety risks that may be
encountered in the place of work and thereafter a development of a health and risk
assessment that explores the nature of such risks and the possible control
measures besides the persons or individuals that are responsible for each of the
risks.
1.2 Classification of Risks
Classification of risks is a giver of a structure that guarantees an exhaustive procedure of
efficiently recognizing risks to a steady dimension of detail and adds to the adequacy and nature
of the dangers procedure recognizable proof. Hazard order is a vital venture in the hazard
assessment process, as it endeavours to structure the various dangers that may influence a project
(Reason, 2016).
In general terms, risk factors in any given project can be sorted dependent on their source and
impact on undertaking goals and can be ordered in outer, inner and lawful classes. The
accompanying definite figure and hazard separate give helpful groupings of task risks for the
most part grouped by source. The level of consistency and capacity to oversee suitable reaction
fluctuates at the same time, regardless, is free of the hazard occasion status (Cantley et al., 2014).
There are various techniques being used for identification of risk. Extensive databases of the
occasions on past tasks are extremely useful; be that as it may, this learning every now and again
lies covered in individuals' psyches, and access to it includes meetings to generate new ideas by
the undertaking group or a critical subset of it. Notwithstanding specialized aptitude and
experience, individual contacts and gathering elements are keys to effective risk identification.

Participation of project team and eye to eye association are expected to support open
correspondence and trust, which are basic to powerful risk identification; without them,
colleagues will be hesitant to bring their hazard worries up in an open discussion (Bhandari et al.,
2016). While littler, specific gatherings can perform hazard evaluation and risk investigation,
successful, progressing hazard recognizable proof requires contribution from the whole task
group and from others outside it. Hazard distinguishing proof is one reason early actuation of the
IPT is fundamental to extend achievement.
There are numerous approaches to approach risk identification. Two conceivable methodologies
are (1) to recognize the main drivers of risks—that is, distinguish the unwanted occasions or
things that can turn out badly and afterward distinguish the potential effects on the project of
each such occasion—and (2) to distinguish all the basic capacities that the undertaking must
perform or objectives that it must reach to be viewed as fruitful and afterward distinguish all the
conceivable modes by which these capacities may neglect to perform (Hartel, 2014). The two
methodologies can work, however the task group may think that it’s less demanding to
distinguish every one of the variables that are basic to progress, and after that work in reverse to
recognize the things that can turn out badly with everyone (Kyaw-Myint et al., 2017).
1.3 Hazard identification and risk assessment form
Assessment Date: 15/10/2018 Assessed by: James Islane
Activity/Item assessed: Construction progress
Ite
m
No.
Hazard
identified
Potent
ial
risk
Risk
ranki
ng
Proposed
risk control
measure
Date
control
measure
to be
implemen
ted
Person
responsi
ble
1 Manual Injury Training 12/10/018 Manage

Handling staff in
manual
handling
techniques,
group lifts,
trolleys
offered
ment of
the
project
2 Falls, slips
and trips
Injury,
illness
6 Suitable
footwear,
visual
inspection
12/10/018 All as
needed
3 Crush
injuries
Injury 4 Personal
protective
equipment
15/10/018 All as
needed
4 Damage to
undergroun
d services
Illness,
injury
2 Personal
protective
equipment
12/11/018 All as
needed
5 Staff being
hit by
moving
traffic
Illness,
injury
3 Demarcation
of pedestrian
and
vehicular
access points
to avoid
confusion
and collision
18/10/018 Manage
ment of
the
project
6 Electrocuti
on
injury 1 Every single
electrical
lead and
apparatuses
tried and
labeled
ropes
hoisted, all
electrical
hardware
climate
sealed,
generators
provided and
introduced
by expert
organization
22/10/018 Organize
rs
7 Trip
Hazards
4 Tent strings
featured
with activity
cones and
tiger labels,
table and
shows does
not project
outside
facing
22/10/018 All as
needed
Ite
m
No.
Action to be taken to ensure appropriate control
measures Date
complete
Complet
ion
confirme

d d by
1 Ensuring that the staff are adequately trained in handling
objects
2 Ensuring that the staff are adequately trained in handling
objects
3 Staff looking for the possible hazards and reporting the
same to the production manager
4 Checking all underground service to ensure no faulty
service lines
5 Hazard lights to be turned on while moving
6 Checking all electrical equipment for damage or abrasion
before use
7 Ensuring that the staff are adequately trained in handling
objects
2 Recommendations
2.1 Hierarchy of Controls

The thought behind this progressive system is that the control techniques at the highest point of
realistic are possibly more compelling and defensive than those at the base. Following this
pecking order ordinarily prompts the usage of inalienably more secure frameworks, where the
danger of disease or damage has been considerably decreased (Friend and Kohn, 2018).
2.1.1 Elimination and Substitution
Elimination and substitution, while best at decreasing risks, additionally will in general be the
most hard to actualize in a current procedure. In the event that the procedure is still at the plan or
advancement stage, end and substitution of risks might be economical and easy to actualize. For
a current procedure, significant changes in gear and methodology might be required to dispense
with or substitute for a danger (Friend and Kohn, 2018).
2.1.2 Engineering Controls
Engineering controls are supported over regulatory and individual defensive hardware (PPE) for
controlling existing laborer exposures in the working environment since they are intended to
expel the peril at the source, before it interacts with the specialist. All around planned building
controls can be profoundly powerful in ensuring laborers and will regularly be autonomous of
specialist collaborations to give this abnormal state of security. The underlying expense of
designing controls can be higher than the expense of regulatory controls or PPE; however over
the more drawn out term, working expenses are often lower, and in a few occurrences, can give a
cost funds in different zones of the procedure (Hartel, 2014).
For portrayals of building control advancements inquired about by NIOSH, and data on the
control subtle elements and their viability, visit our Engineering Controls Database. The
designing controls contained in the database are gainful for clients who require control answers
for decrease or take out laborer exposures.

2.1.3 Administrative Controls and PPE
Administrative controls and PPE are as often as possible utilized with existing procedures where
risks are not especially all around controlled. Regulatory controls and PPE projects might be
moderately reasonable to build up in any case, over the long haul, can be expensive to continue.
These techniques for ensuring specialists have likewise turned out to be less viable than different
measures, requiring noteworthy exertion by the influenced workers (Hartel, 2014).
3 References
Reason, J., 2016. Managing the risks of organizational accidents. Routledge
Cantley, L.F., Taiwo, O.A., Galusha, D., Barbour, R., Slade, M.D., Tessier-Sherman,
B. and Cullen, M.R., 2014. Effect of systematic ergonomic hazard identification and
control implementation on musculoskeletal disorder and injury risk. Scandinavian
journal of work, environment & health, 40(1), p.57

Bhandari, S., Hallowell, M.R., Van Boven, L., Gruber, J. and Welker, K.M., 2016.
Emotional states and their impact on hazard identification skills. In Construction
Research Congress 2016 (pp. 2831-2840)
Kyaw-Myint, S.M., Strazdins, L., Clements, M., Butterworth, P. and Gallagher, L.,
2017. A method of identifying health-based benchmarks for psychosocial risks at
work: a tool for risk assessment. Safety science, 93, pp.143-151
Friend, M.A. and Kohn, J.P., 2018. Fundamentals of occupational safety and health.
Rowman & Littlefiel
Hartel, E (2014). Work safe Victoria Legislation. [Online]. Available at:
http://www.worksafe.vic.gov.au.