Construction Project Management

This essay aims to discuss the aspects of the construction safety on the Suspended working platforms. The causes of the fall of the persons on the use of the suspended working platforms is briefly stated in this essay. The present legislations and the technical guidelines for ensuring the safe and secure use of the suspended working platforms is briefly discussed in this essay. The advantages and the disadvantages in the engineering control for preventing the fall of the persons from heights by the use of the Suspended working platforms is discussed in this essay. Any other safety precautions that must be undertaken during the use of the Suspended working platforms is done has been briefly provided in this essay. Lastly, this essay concludes with an appropriate conclusion for the essay.

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Introduction
This essay aims to discuss the aspects of the construction safety on the Suspended
working platforms. The causes of the fall of the persons on the use of the suspended working
platforms is briefly stated in this essay. The present legislations and the technical guidelines
for ensuring the safe and secure use of the suspended working platforms is briefly discussed
in this essay. The advantages and the disadvantages in the engineering control for preventing
the fall of the persons from heights by the use of the Suspended working platforms is
discussed in this essay. Any other safety precautions that must be undertaken during the use
of the Suspended working platforms is done has been briefly provided in this essay. Lastly,
this essay concludes with an appropriate conclusion for the essay.
The Suspended working platforms are majorly ideal for the building façade
decoration, construction, maintenance and the cleaning. These platforms are commonly
utilised for the installing of the elevator, ship the building and then repairing or in some other
areas like the big size tank, chimney and embarkment, bridge. It provides the workers with
the safe platform that provides the workers with the easier, safer and increasingly efficient
access to the platform.
Discussion
The suspended working platform are majorly utilised on the smaller houses, the
cooling towers, pits, silos, and the industrial plants (Fang, Wang & Wen, 2014). These
platforms are then mounted with the system that includes the endless winches for ensuring
the safe lifting and the lowering of the personnel and the materials. For allowing the easy
experience of working, the suspended working platforms could be manually adjusted
according to the requirements for permitting the workers to directly reach to the working
space (Nguyen & Gouttefarde, 2014). Because of the modular construction system, the
suspended working platform could be utilised flexibly as well as adjustment could be done as
per the requirements of the several construction sites.
Causes of the accidents on the suspended working platform
Description of the incident
The worker was working on the platform and was intending to paint the walls that are
adjacent to the ledge. The worker climbed out of the suspended scaffold on the ledge of the
building but then lost the footing and fell drastically from the nineth floor of the building.
Causes and the contributing factor
The worker has been not wearing the safety that was mandatory while working in the
heights.
The examining of the scaffold was done almost 6 months earlier and contrary to the
legal requirements where it has been stated that the equipment that involves the workers

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working from the significant height must be examined and approved prior the working is
started on the equipment. It was later perceived that the root cause of the worker facing this
hazard was due to the improper position of the worker who fell from the scaffold platform.
The inadequate or the improper protective equipment was another reason for the happening
of this incident. Sometimes, there are situations when there are lack of the knowledge about
the proper mechanisms of working on the suspended working platform and the inadequate
leadership or the supervision could be another reasons for occurring this kind of hazard at the
construction site.
Present regulations and legislatures
In the European union, European Agency for the health and safety at the work
organises the actions at the EU and at the national stages as well as the Directorate General to
enable the Social affairs, Employment, and the Inclusion is majorly accountable at level of
EU. The legislation is then transposed in the Member states and the requirements of the
places on the employers for assessing and protecting the health and the safety of the workers.
Under the law of European Union, several European Union Directives have been
implemented for protecting the workers.
Section 6A and 6B of the FIUO: This law imposes some common responsibilities on the
persons as well as the proprietors that are employed with the regards to health and the safety
at the work in the industrial activities. This regulations holds:
 the provision as well as the maintenance of the plant along with the systems at the
workplace,
 the utilisation, storage, the transportation and management of the substance and
the articles
 the instruction, information, supervision and the training
 maintenance of the industrial undertakings in the safe conditions as well as the
provision and the maintenance of the safe means of the access
Factories and the industrial undertakings regulations: This regulation offers the safety
regulation in the connection to the industrial undertakings and the factories and the
employment of the women, children and the young persons. It is the major task of proprietor
of any industrial undertaking to guarantee and practicable regarding the safety and the health
at the work of all the persons that are employed by the owner at industrial undertaking. Under
this section, any proprietor in associated with the industrial responsibility or the notifiable
workstation involves person in time period comprising of the control or the management of
the business executed in in the industrial undertaking or the notifiable workstation and it
includes the body corporate and the firm along with the occupier of an industrial undertaking
or the notifiable workplace as well as the agent of that occupier.
Construction sites safety regulations or the CSSR: In this regulations, the major provisions
of construction sites safety regulation 2003 are the:
 Sections 1 amends the Regulation 2 for adding the definition of the direct control as
well as repeal definition of the subcontractor.
 Sections 2-14, 16-22, and 24-41 amends the Regulations for extending the duty that is
imposed on contractor who is responsible for any site of construction or a plant for the
contractor who comprises of the direct control over construction work, excavation,
process, operation.
 Section 15 amend the Regulation 38A(1) for prescribing the particular measures
needed for ensuring the safety of the places of the work.

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 Section 30 amend the Regulation 44(1) for prescribing the particular measures that are
required for effective guarding the prime mover, the transmission machinery and any
other machinery.
Advantages of the engineering controls for preventing the fall of the persons
from heights by use of the suspended working platforms
The problems that are specific to the personal protective equipment are adequate in
causing the professionals with ranking the engineering controls overhead the individuals in
hierarchy of the reins (Ferrando-Villalba et al., 2014). In addition to this, the engineering
controls comprises of the numerous advantages that ranges from relatively mundane as well
as the pragmatics to being increasingly philosophical. Within theory, the engineering control
have been inherently increasingly reliable and it offers the effective protection than the
personal equipment for protection and these are probably to lead in successful hazard control
(Nguyen et al., 2014). At first it could be considered that the employer provided personal
protective programs are presently inadequate (Montiel et al., 2015). Majority of the debates
of relative qualities of the engineering controls and the individual protecting equipment
centre on the respiratory hazards (Chu et al., 2014). The successful control using the proper
defensive mechanisms have been utilised by several engineers and the contractors for
providing the required security to the individuals who are working on the suspended working
platforms. But it has been observed that several employers have not implemented the
measures for ensuring the safety of the workers and it could lead to the hazards in the
workplace (Ling et al., 2015). Secondly, it has been observed that the appropriate
measurements of the working in the suspended platform might be difficult and sometimes it
might not be accurate. Thirdly, in the hierarchical method with the control accomplished in
close proximity to source of any hazard, might provide some opportunity of backup or the
supplemental controls (Chang et al., 2015). The dependence on the personal protective
equipment might be helpful in the reduction of the technological development that includes
development of the controls that might discover the application to the other hazards and the
improvements in the equipment, which reduction hazards and instantaneously raises the
productivity (Sevim, Bekiroglu & Arslan, 2017). Fourth, with the sole dependence on the
engineering controls could increase the advance of the technology. The contractors in the
present times allows the mandating of the technology forcing of the controls (Sinha &
Chandel, 2014). The original control technology could be and it has been convoyed by the
other variations in the plant and the equipment that improves the productivity and also
provides the extra protection for the safety and the health of the workers (Ranjkesh et al.,
2015). And ultimately, the personal protective equipment is troublesome on the employees. It
decreases the mobility, as well as the weight off several kinds of the personal protective
equipment helps in the increasing of the physical workloads of the employees. However, the
equipment often impairs the productivity of the construction (Xu et al., 2018). If the
allowance is not created for decrease in the throughput because of the utilisation of the
protective equipment and the economic load might be borne by the employee (Newman,
2017).
Not with standing with the advantages of the controls of the engineering over the
individual protective equipment, several drawbacks might be faced. Initially, even though are
reduced subject to the human error and then inherently increasingly dependable. No matter
how meticulously, suspended working platform would fail in removing the scaffold
insecurities significantly (Zhou et al., 2017). Secondly there are several situations where the
methods of the feasible controls has not yet been completely developed. When the employers
or the contractors are dealing with such situations, the best possible method that could be
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feasible control of engineering (Chen et al., 2014). Additionally, these equipment would be
always required in the situations when the controls are inadequate to help in reducing the
revelations to the acceptable levels along with the time during the interim period while the
engineering controls have been extensively developed and then implemented (Zanotto et
al.,2014). The major issue for the engineering controls is the cost while implementing the
engineering controls. Even though, the well designed and the well conducted platform could
be significantly expensive the programs are in several situations cheaper than the control of
engineering and specifically, the costs of the capital could be lower (Castelli, Ottaviano &
Rea, 2014). In several situations, the main concern regarding the costs of the engineering
raises due to the certainty that the costs might be infeasible for any specific firm or for the
industry completely. Several economists and the employers have claimed that the employers
must be permitted the required flexibility in selecting between the accessible methods of the
control, instead of being needed to implement the feasible controls of engineering. The
flexibility will permit the employers to select the control method that is least costly (Aloisi,
2015).
Safety precautions
 Some of the safety precautions that must be considered while working with the
suspended working platforms are the:
 Ensure that the installation is done and then maintained as per the requirements of the
job, the safety regulations, the standards as well as the specifications of the
manufacturers.
 Inspection of the all the equipment prior erecting and prior each of the shift.
 Utilise the appropriate systems of the fall arrest for every worker. Maintaining the
lanyard attachment at highest possible point. If all the fall arrest systems are
mandatory, the workers should be particularly trained prior using.
 Ensure the secured base of the suspended platforms roof beam and the attachments.
This would help in preventing the hazards significantly and ensure the security of the
workers.
 Ensure the structural integrity of the roof for supporting the cornice hooks or the
outriggers.
 Implement the proper checking of the of the damaged or the kinked ropes.
 Ensure that the ropes at the anchor ends are extensively secure.
 Ensure that each of the safety equipment, override switches, stops as well as the
brakes are functioning properly during the situation of the construction.
 Ensure the proper prevention of the contact among the grinding and the welding
equipment and the safety of the wire or the suspension ropes.
 Ensure that the hand tools are significantly secured to the platform.
 Ensure that the grounding and the securing of all the power source for ensuring the
electrical prevention of the employees on the suspended working platform.
Conclusion
Therefore, it can be concluded that the suspended working platform are essential for
working during the construction at any construction site but it poses the threats of several
kinds that requires to be properly analysed and then the preventive measures are required
to be implemented. The suspended working platform are majorly utilised on the smaller
houses, the cooling towers, pits, silos, and the industrial plants. These platforms are then
mounted with the system that includes the endless winches for ensuring the safe lifting
and the lowering of the personnel and the materials. In the European union, European
Agency for the health and safety at the work organises the actions at the EU and at the

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national stages as well as the Directorate General to enable the Social affairs,
Employment, and the Inclusion is majorly accountable at level of EU. The legislation is
then transposed in the Member states and the requirements of the places on the employers
for assessing and protecting the health and the safety of the workers. Under the law of
European Union, several European Union Directives have been implemented for
protecting the workers. The successful control using the proper defensive mechanisms
have been utilised by several engineers and the contractors for providing the required
security to the individuals who are working on the suspended working platforms. But it
has been observed that several employers have not implemented the measures for
ensuring the safety of the workers and it could lead to the hazards in the workplace.

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