Construction Project Management

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CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGEMENT
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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.