Workers Safety in Construction Field

Running head: ENGINEERING RESEARCH PREPARATION
Engineering Research Preparation
Topic: Workers Safety in Construction Field
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Abstract
Workplace Well-being and Safety for a construction project site is identified as the primary
aspects for protecting the physical and mental well-being of the workforces and their security
while working at the construction site. Construction industry is regarded to be the most
economically enhancing amongst the industries all over the world, but at the same time it is
the most problematic industries as the employees are at constant risk of having physical and
emotional injuries during any kind of ongoing construction projects. Ensuring the well-being
and safety of the workers are also required since it the most important aspect of any industry
to secure the workplace well-being and safety of the involved employees considering them as
the most important asset in the industry. Thus, the following research would be built upon the
ideas developed to find out or identify the issues that can occur in the workplaces during the
construction project going on and how the employees can also be made aware of the situation
and provided with safety measures to ensure total well-being security. This also includes the
identification of the reason behind the development of the issues to help in finding out
appropriate measures for the mitigation of the issues.
Keywords
Construction Industry, Occupational Well-being and Safety, Workplace Well-being,
Automated Robots, Worker Safety Attire

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................3
1.1 Identification of the problem with practical and theoretical perspective.........................3
1.2 Case Study........................................................................................................................4
1.3 Analysis of the impacts....................................................................................................6
2. Literature Review...............................................................................................................7
3. Research Questions..........................................................................................................10
4. Research Objective...........................................................................................................11
5. Research Methodology.....................................................................................................11
6. Timeline of the project.....................................................................................................13
7. Milestones........................................................................................................................13
8. Resources.........................................................................................................................13
9. Identification of uncertainties and risks with solutions....................................................14
10. Scope of the Project.......................................................................................................14
11. Project Uncertainties......................................................................................................15
12. Project Communication Plan..........................................................................................15
13. Research Proposal.............................................................................................................17
13.1 Synthesis of Problem Analysis.....................................................................................17
13.2 Problem definition........................................................................................................18
14. Implementation and Results...............................................................................................18
15. Research summary, findings and future work....................................................................20
15.1 Research Summary.......................................................................................................20
15.2 Findings........................................................................................................................21
15.3 Future Work.................................................................................................................22
16. Conclusion..........................................................................................................................23
References................................................................................................................................24
Appendix..................................................................................................................................29
1. Gantt chart........................................................................................................................29
2. Work Breakdown Structure..............................................................................................29

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1. Introduction
1.1 Identification of the problem with practical and theoretical perspective
The way that the industry providing construction services has proficient and
widespread growth in the past few years, there are various aspects of the industry that
worldwide needs to be appreciated for making a project to be successful. All the issues that
arise in construction can mostly be related to the safety issues arising during an ongoing
construction project. It is always been taken into consideration that the personnel that are
within the construction project are taken at most care of and given proper importance. This is
the reason why right from the design stage, the safety issues need to be considered for
planning and entire project from its initial stage to its completion and all the aspects of the
project.
The construction industry always considered skilled and unskilled labour to employee
and these are the people that are subjected to the accidents and risk for the health of the
workers at any construction site. The construction industry is susceptible to more physical
injuries than any other industry. There are various contractors and clients needed for the
completion of any kind of project in the construction area and it has been found that various
construction conditions lakh the coordination between the workforce, contractors and clients
to establish a safe working condition (Karimi, Arghami and Behroozi 2017). For this reason,
there are numerous liver safety laws available nowadays that keeps account of all the physical
activities that involves within a construction site and the accidents that take place in
construction site one after another. The management of a project in the industry concerning
with construction works commits itself to the safety of well-being of a worker in the
construction site and project managers often face a lot of pressure to handle the situations.
The construction industry is often susceptible to various pressures like completing a project

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in the least time possible as time is considered as money. It may also occur that the pressure
in the project managers and crew results into meeting the deadlines as soon as possible with
the fixed budget keeping aside the safety measures. Private organisations and therefore
resulted into workers fatalities.
Therefore, theoretically speaking, the problem that has been identified for the safety
and security of workers in the construction site is the consideration of all the extensive areas
of worker safety. Theoretically, a construction site should consider all the aspects of
respecting the safety of the workers during a project. However, it has been found that the
work pressure and the willingness of completing the project as soon as possible keep the
probability of safety and security of the workers in the construction site as least as possible to
meet the deadline and complete the project and present it to the client.
1.2 Case Study
There are a huge number of considerable cases in the construction field that has
resulted to considerable amount of hazards causing health risk for the people working in the
construction sites. There are also incidences where fumes, noise, dust, manual handling and
other problems with poor occupational health service provision has actually contributed to the
labours who are working in the construction site. The results of wind disasters leading to
several cases of casualties for not just the contracted labours working for the construction site
but also show for subcontractors who were not part of the construction project as a daily
worker from the side of the organisation (Cheng et al. 2015). The occupational health
management has resulted into several data that has presented the information about
negligence of inconsistencies, Limited and sizeable cost invested on thinking about the health
and safety hazards of the people working. Even the incidences has resulted into finding out
the facts that the managers were handling the projects at that time also had limited idea about
managing the occupational health and safety hazards for the construction site workers. There

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are several incidents is found that could have been otherwise solved by instigating training
sessions for the people who are associated with the project related to construction sites (Reese
2015). As per an undertaken research, it was found that the construction activities in the
processing of a construction project through several events occurring in March 1996 and
November 1997, most European construction sites did not adhere to the health and safety
standardisation even for the high profile organisations and the larger Pan Asian constructions
where the organisation was almost compromising the health and safety of the people
associated with the project (Ringen, Seegal and England 2015). The associated people would
not this include the construction workers but also were including the people who were
associated with the project as subcontractors, and other stakeholders including the workers,
the project managers, and even the executive who would monitor the projects by visiting the
sites every now and then.
Discussion: From the above UK projects about health and safety standardization and
the impact it had on the associated people of the project occurring between March 1996 and
November 1997 had huge impact on not just the associated people working on the
construction yeah but also enlisted its impact on the entire organisation and also the
associated stakeholders. This is why it has been largely seen that not understanding the
standards followed for a particular construction project is actually it necessary as much as it
is to complete the entire project within the estimated time (Aires, Gamez and Gibb 2016).
Construction project mostly includes a lot of invested some of money as a capital for
different phases of the project. It also requires a lot of effort and time for the construction
project which on the other hand involves capital investment as well. Since such a huge
amount of capital and liquid investment is made on construction projects, this particular
project on the pan Asian construction was also engulfing a lot of money from the
stakeholders who were investing on the projects. Analysing the impact of all the effects that

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the organisation can take by making the project delayed and what the monetary impact would
be on the overall responsibility of the construction organisation was analysed (Reese 2015).
However, the fast processing of the construction project did not clarify how much it would be
to consider the impact on the occupational health hazard for the people involved with the
projects is well. This is why the organisation started to hurry the project up not concerning
anything about the occupational health hazards of the workers and employees who work
directly involved into processing the project. Due to this there was an inevitable fall of the
occupational health hazards that caused many casualties due to several accidents caused at
the site. The possibility that the project would consider the impact of the occupational health
hazard on the total health of the workers was not considered even if it was for their physical
health or mental health. This impacted the entire project causing several worker casualties as
well as money and time loss for both the organisation involved in the project.
1.3 Analysis of the impacts
The construction industry is one of the foremost monetary forces but it is also been
identified as one of the most perilous industries given the resulting of accidents and physical
suffering to the workers. It has been identified that the considerable pain and suffering that
has been resulted to the workers is mostly generated from the marginalizing of productivity
with the considerations to meeting targets and project completion in the least time possible. It
is often been found that the clients or the project owners have been pressurizing the project
managers a lot at the cost of the construction projects. Therefore, it is also been found that as
a result, to meet the daily targets and the completion of the project in the given time and
within the budget, the quality of work for the safety of the workers are not what are given
much attention to. Therefore, it is easier to understand that in construction industry, time and
budget is a major factor that acts as the primary factor about the consideration of safety and
security of the workers during the ongoing projects at the construction site. Identified as one

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of the major reasons why the projects in construction industry lack in identifying the major
safety issues or risks for the workers during a project.
As a result, it has been always witnessed that safety and well-being environment are
neglected on the construction site and all the risks that can occur to the workers during the
construction project are given rare management instructions to handle. Although it is
discussed as a priority case during the meetings of the management bodies but often it is
found that during the project, the instructions from the higher authorities leave no time for or
the people associated with the construction to complete the projects having least amount of
time to provide to the consideration of well-being and safety of the workers.
2. Literature Review
According to Antwi-Afari et al. (2019), the coincidences in construction sites can be
considered as the work that occurs with lack in knowledge for the lack in proper training,
even the lack in proper supervision during a project. It can also be seen that the problems that
often occur in construction sites resulting into the well-being or safety issues of the workers
occur due to the error of judgement or proper means to carry out the task effectively. There
are also other factors added to the nonexistence of well-being and safety in construction sites
and they can be considered as the transistor denatured are the short term of the construction
industry.
According to Samuel and Munagala (2016), it is also been found that a working
environment in the construction industry is not controlled and this increases the diversity and
complexity of the construction firms and their size having a proper effect on the safety of the
construction projects. It is always been found that the unsafe behaviour of the construction
and building projects is one of the most significant factors that results to the accidents in the