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Health and Safety in Construction Sites : Report

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Health and Safety in Construction Sites : Report

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Table of ContentsCHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION (1500).............................................................................................31.1 Overview................................................................................................................................31.2 Rationale of the research........................................................................................................41.3 Aim of the study....................................................................................................................41.4 Objectives of the study..........................................................................................................41.5 Research questions.................................................................................................................51.6 Research limitations...............................................................................................................51.7 Dissertation structure.............................................................................................................6CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW (2500)..................................................................................72.1 Introduction............................................................................................................................72.2 Various types of minor accidents and near miss accidents that take place at theconstruction site...........................................................................................................................72.3 Dealing with accidents and near miss accidents....................................................................82.3 Role of site induction at construction site..............................................................................92.4 Impact of site induction on reducing rate of accidents at construction site.........................102.5 Mitigating minor and near miss accidents on construction sites through site induction.....11CHAPTER 3: METHODS (2000)......................................................................................................123.1 Introduction..........................................................................................................................123.2 Research philosophy............................................................................................................123.3 Research design...................................................................................................................133.4 Research approach...............................................................................................................143.5 Data collection.....................................................................................................................143.6 Sampling..............................................................................................................................153.7 Data Analysis technique......................................................................................................153.8 Ethical consideration............................................................................................................153.9 Validity and reliability.........................................................................................................153.10 Research limitations...........................................................................................................15CHAPTER 4: RESULTS (1500)........................................................................................................15CHAPTER 5: DISCUSSION (1500)..................................................................................................15CHAPTER 6: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION (1000)..............................................15
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REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................16
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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION (1500)1.1 OverviewConstruction work comes under the category of hazardous land-based jobs. Some of thejobs at construction site include building roads, houses, bridges and offices as well as repairingand maintenance. In other words, construction is any kind of work that has direct relation toalteration, construction, maintenance, repair, renovation, commissioning, demolition,dismantling of the structure, etc. However, the definition of construction work does not considerminor repair as well as maintenance work which is not hazardous in nature (Hughes and Ferrett,2012). This type of work is considered to be hazardous since people have to work at a certainheight from the ground level. Moreover, other reasons can be noise, ineffective evacuation strategy at the time ofemergency, dust, power tools and equipment used in it. The most common accidents at thesesites are caused due to falls, electrocutions, being caught or stuck between the two objects, etc.With a significant increase in the type of work, occupational fatalities have increased at asubstantial rate. It also leads to harm the life of an individual while performing work relatedtasks at construction sites. Hence, it is important for management of the company to opt methodthat can help in making place safe and workable for employees working at the construction site(Guo and et.al., 2012).There are various companies involved in employing minors for practising various tasks atthe construction site. Work of any minor must fulfil the requirements of low risk zone whichdoes not have life threatening practices attached to it. Even if he or she is working at any riskierconstruction site, in that case, management is responsible to comply with all requirements ofwork health and safety legislation being issued by government of the country. Moreover, theperson conducting business undertaking must give adequate information, training, supervisionand instruction to the people who are involved in construction tasks. The present research helpsin understanding mitigation activities adopted by organization in order to reduce risk of accidentson construction sites (Zhou, Whyte and Sacks, 2012). The study revolves around a principle contractor which is a leading construction-basedservice provider headquartered in UK. It was formerly a constituent of FTSE 250 index. It hasbeen involved in constructing and regenerating public and commercial sectors. It provides itsservices in the form of five dimensions. These are affordable housing, investments, urban
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