Construction Practice and Management: Health and Safety Legislation and Collaboration

Construction practice
and management

INTRODUCTION
The aim of management of construction workplaces is to ensure better safety and health
measures and to control over the project for delivering it on time with better quality and also
effective cost. The main purpose of this report is to build and provide a better understanding of
construction and management exercises. Comprehensive monitoring and control over safety and
health responsibilitieas are important for success of construction project
(Aibinu and Odeyinka, 2018). This study make a comparison among construction processes,
safety modules and collaboration techniques within the construction site.
TASK 1
Explaination of how health and safety has now become an integrated part of the construction
process
Safety and health at the construction place, is not only about using personal protective
equipements and wanting that worlers wear PPE ehile the process of construction. Place of
construction is such a dangerous surrounding like the workers must be aware of all the activities
or things going on their site. Some points are described below:
 Requiring safety training: Training is very important for well knowledgeable
and alert worlers or employees at workplace. Without the required training, the
upper seniors or supervisors will saw an eise in construction site accidents that
may lead several injuries to the employees and also may cause in fatalities.
 Reducing existing hazards: Functioning of risk assessment and analysing level
of hazardness that can cause from working at constructions sites needs to be done
regularly for eliminating or mitigating these dangerous accidents. This also
improves condition of workplace and causes reduction in number of accidents
(Backlund, Chronéer and Sundqvist, 2018).
 Following consensus and regulations standards: There are various regulations
and standards that must be followed for safety at construction place, and if these
found to be not followed by any firm at their workplace then, they must be
penalized by the regulation authorities. These rules and regulations are setted up
for the safety of people, but persons neglected the rules, then there are high

chances that site of work may suffer from higher number of accidents. Reporting
an increase in the number of accidents resultes in maintaining bad reputation of
contractors or the construction firm.
Construction employees and workers completed their assigned work in the most
dangerous surrounding which have a high frequency of accidents. Accidents includes many
kinds of fatals such as falling from towers, being electrocuted, damages of body parts due to
hazardeous particles and being crushed by machinery. With these challenges, supervisors still
carries their subordinates at work site. Safety and health perhaps, the most crucial need that must
be taken into consideration in the construction projects. Due to only one cause it includes very
important thing that is ''Lives of Humans''. No one can ignore the safety of anyone's life just for
the sake of completing a building, cost saving and fast progress (Chan and Shan, 2019).
TASK 2
Description of government legislations which has benchmarked health and safety within
construction site
The legislation
The main principle of legislation that affects the construction is applies to the whole
industry. The UK governement made health and safety at work legislations act 1974, and this act
came in force from 1974 itself. It imposes a resposibility or duty to all the supervisors to ensures
reasonably practicable, welfare, health and safety at workplace of all the subordinates and
individuals at the site. The HSWA act provides the regime for health and safety of managing the
risk at site. Some of the related acts are explained below:
 Working at height regulation: This act came into force in 2015. It specifies all
the equipments that are used for safety such as ladders and scaffording. Factors
like doubling of guardails and boards on toe on scaffolding that can protect
employees and ensures that workers do not fall on by passers.
 The lifting operations and lifting equipments regulation: The act introduced
by Government of UK in 1998. It states that usage of crames and other on
boarding lifting devices on lorries into other applications. It makes mandatory that
these equipments must be examined frequently and training to the workers about
its usage must be given properly (Egbu, 2021).