Achieving Excellence in Health and Safety Management

This HWD introduces the concept of excellence in health and safety management and risk control. It describes the main features of an excellent organization and explains how it measures progress towards excellence. The report highlights the importance of anticipating hazards, assessing risks, and implementing effective control measures to achieve excellence in health and safety management. It also emphasizes the role of organizations in delivering legal compliance efficiently and ensuring a safe and healthy environment for workers. The report concludes that there are various legislations and regulations developed to protect people involved in construction work.

Health and safety
management
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................4
A)..........................................................................................................................................................4
B)..........................................................................................................................................................8
C)........................................................................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION..................................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................14
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INTRODUCTION
Health and safety management is an organised efforts and procedure in order to identifying
workplace risk and overcome an accident and exposures to harmful situation and substances. The
major objective of heath and safety management is to provide the awareness and knowledge about
the accident preventions, accident response, emerging preparedness and use of protective clothing
and equipment (Guzman and et.al., 2015). In the context of construction work, health and safety
management is very essential to provide the protection from accident at workplace of labours and
workers. A good safety and management system can go a long way to assist prevent accidents and
occupational hazards. In order to provide the protection and safety to labours, workers and people
around them (Hughes and Ferrett, 2011) , UK government has been developed various legislative
frameworks and regulation. In this project report, the excellence in health and safety management
has been discussed with respect of Howman and Workwarth development. It is a well established
development company with a portfolio of successful commercial and light industrial development
project throughout UK. In addition to this, the aspect which should consider by the development
company at the time of construction has been included in this report.
A)
Health and safety in construction refers to the arrangement of protection and security for
workers, labours and people around them. Health and safety management is a procedure to
determine workplace hazards, and decreasing an accidents and exposures to harmful situation and
substance. In the context of Howman and Workwarth development it is a well establish
development company which is going to develop a portfolio of successful commercial and light
development project throughout UK. HWD are seeking to extend their portfolio with an office
block development that is HWD Wood side office.
An office building is to be constructed. It required for road resurfacing works and associated car
park work. The plot is approximately 110m*90m in size. It is bounded by main road to the north of
the site, housing to the east of the site, a primary school to the west and woodland to the south of
the site. In order to contract this Cilpen architects have been appointed as a principle designer of
this project. As a principle constructor of this [project I am responsible to develop a production of a
construction phase plan (Health and safety in care homes. 2014).
As per the above discussion it has been concluded that HWD is going to construct the project that is
Wood side office along with the plot that is approximately 110m*90m in size. It is bounded by main
road to the north of the site, housing to the east of the site, a primary school to the west and
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woodland to the south of the site (Karjalainen, Blencowe and Lillsunde, 2012).
As per the UK governmental legislation and regulation of health and safety in construction,
company have to follow the various safety aspects and rights of the labours and workers. There are
various arrangement and requirements at the time of contribution about health and safety. As per the
UK government there are major area which considered upon the health and safety regulation.
 As per the construction (Design and management) regulation 2007 there have a fair rules
and regulation about the safety and security of people at workplace. It is also known as the
CDM regulations or CDM 2007 (Johnstone, Bluff and Clayton, 2012).It defined legal duties
and responsibility for the safe operation of UK construction sites. They were superseded by
the construction regulation 2015.This regulation implied special duties and responsibility on
clients, designers and constructors, to plan their approach to health and safety.
 CDM were introduced by the health and safety executive's construction division which is
required to improve project planning and management. (Frieden, 2013) It assigned
appropriate personnels to manage on the site hazards. It also implies for safety and health
and discourage bureaucracy.
 CDM 2007 applied to all construction and covers construction activities such as building,
civil engineering, engineering construction work, demolition, site preparation and site
clearance.
 The purpose of the CDM regulation 2007 is to improve the health and safety on all
construction projects. All people who are involved in the construction project, to take
responsibility for health and safety standards through better planning, design and
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management of a project to reduce accident and fatality rates (Johnstone, Bluff and Clayton,
2012).
 As per the construction Design and management regulations 2015, whatever role of person
in the construction, CDM purpose to improve health and safety in the industry by helping
that persons. This regulation focusing on the sensibly plan the work so the hazards involved
can managed from start to finish (Kane and Kane, 2013).
 It provide the help to people about their rights for the right job at the right time period.
 It helps people in consult and engage with workers about the risk and how they are being
managed.
 It assist people in cooperate and coordinate about their work with other.
As per the discussion about the safety and health management in construction act of CDM 2015 it
has been ascertained that it provides guidance on the legal requirement for CDM 2015 and it is
available for help any one who are involved in the construction work. Howman and Workwarth
development has to consider these various health and safety related regulation which has developed
by the government of UK. By use of this, regulation about health and safety management, it can
provide the right information about the risk and how people who are involved in the construction
can being managed this hazard at the workplace (Karjalainen, Blencowe and Lillsunde, 2012) . In
addition to this, the act of construction provide Howman and Workwarth development's people
such as architects, labour, workers and people, who are around this construction work. Further
more, this regulation act of government in UK can improve the project planning and management.
If Howman and Workwarth development company provide the well knowledge about this
regulation and rules of this act then people who are involved in the construction can increase their
safety and overcome, the risk of any accident at the workplace (Kondo, South and Branas, 2015) .
As per this construction (design and management)regulations 2015, Howman and workwarth
development company's designer, architect, contractor have various duties and obligation which are
as follows-
Client duties in relation to managing projects
 A client must make suitable arrangement for managing a project that is Wood side office,
including the allocation of sufficient time and other resources.
 The construction work can be carried out, so far as is reasonably practicable, without have
any kinds of hazards to the health and safety for any person affected by this project
(Karjalainen, Blencowe and Lillsunde, 2012). A client must provide pre construction information as soon as is practicable to every
designer and contractor appointed or being considered for appointment, to the project (Wood
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side office)
General duties
In the context of developing Wood side office project for HWD Company, there are various
responsibility and arrangements for health and safety according to the UK governmental act. These
duties are as follows-
 A designer including principle designer, or contractor including principle contractor
appointed to work on a project must have the skill, knowledge and experience. They all have
to fulfil their roles and responsibility in a manner that secures the health and safety of any
person affected by the project (Lowes and Hulatt, 2013).
 A designer should not take the liability of project unless they fulfil the condition in
paragraph.
 A person working on a project under the control of another must report to that person
anything they are aware of in relation to the project which is likely to endanger their own
health and safety or that of others (Martin, Lippitt and Prothero, 2013).
 The principle designer must plan, manage and control and monitor the pre construction
phase and coordinate matters relating to health and safety during the pre construction phase
to ensure that, so far as is reasonably practicable, the project is carried out without any
hazards or risk to health or safety.
 A principle designer of the cited project that is wood site office must take into account the
general rules, regulation and principles of prevention of health and safety.
 A principle contractor are also equal liable in the contraction work about the health and
safety, he/she must have developed a plan, manage and monitor the construction phase and
coordinate matters relating to health and safety during the contribution phase to ensure that,
so far as is reasonably practicable, construction programs must have taken out with full
safety and security from hazards and accidents at workplace (McCarthy and Rose, 2010) .
 A principle constructor must organise cooperation between contractors including successive
contractors on the same construction site. Further he /she must coordinate implementations
by the contractor of applicable legal requirements for health and safety (Karjalainen,
Blencowe and Lillsunde, 2012).
Safe places of construction work
According to the UK governmental regulation related to the construction, there must a safe place of
work so as every one may secure and safe from the hazards and accidents. In the project of wood
site office, there must , so far as is reasonable practicable, be suitable and sufficient safe access to
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and agrees from every construction site to every other place provided for the use of any person
whilst at work.
Stability of structure
As per the UK governmental rules and regulation about safety and heath at construction workplace,
there must have all practicable steps taken , where necessary to prevent danger to any person, to
ensure that any new or existing structure does not collapse if, due to the carrying out of construction
work, it may be unstable and it is in a temporary state of weakness or instability (McKitterick, 2012)
.
B)
Risk assessment is the identification of qualitative or quantitative estimate of risk related to a well
defined situation and a recognised threat. A risk assessment will provide focused information about
threats. This measure provides a detailed report on the current state of corporation's security posture
and create road map for correcting deficiencies. This measures can be focused on specific aspects of
security infrastructure, such as the effectiveness of the protective measures around critical database
server, or they can be organisation wide evaluations such as assessing the effectiveness of the
overall security program (Munn-Giddings and Winter, 2013). On the other hand risk register is the
major tool to overcome the risks and hazard at workplace. By use of this risk register, company can
measure the area of risk at workplace and put the efforts to overcome it. It is also refereed to as a
risk log, in other word it can be said that risk register is a master document which is created during
the early stages of project. It is an effective technique that play an important part in the risk
management plan, it assisting corporation to track the issues and address problems as they arise
(What you need to do about health and safety. 2016).
As per the given case scenario, The Howman and Workwarth development is going to construct the
project that is wood site office. For this project it have to appoint the various architectures,
constructors and labours (Reeves, Lewin and Espin, 2011). It required for road resurfacing works and
associated car park work. The plot is approximately 110m*90m in size. It is bounded by main road
to the north of the site, housing to the east of the site, a primary school to the west and woodland to
the south of the site. In order to contract this Cilpen architects have been appointed as a principle
designer of this project. Generally it can be said that company have various people who are engaged
in this project. Corporation are responsible to take prevention for overcome the hazards of accident
at workplace and also responsible to protect them related to health and safety. At the duration of
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construction the project of HWD Wood side office, there may have various types of hazards
regarding health and safety of people which are as follows- Working from height- The people such as workers and labours who are working in the at
the high height will be required for roofing activities. Those people have hazard related to
the break off roof and uncertain accident at the height. This people are required to well
settled risk management practices(Bowen, Privitera and Bowie, 2011).
 Excavation activities- In the Howman and Workwarth development project, at the
construction place, there are two disused septic tanks exist on the site towards the western
end of the site. These will require excavation and removal.
As per the above discussion it has been founded that there are two major hazard at the construction
place through which labours, constructors, architect and other people who are around that have risk
related to uncertain accident. The corporation should use the the risk management and methodology
in order to overcome the impact or chances of accident at workplace by these two mentioned
hazards. In order to overcome the impact of hazard and uncertain accident at construction place,
cited venture should adopt the risk management methodology which are as follows-
 Risk management is the identification, assessment and prioritization of risks followed by
coordinated and economical application of resources to minimise, monitors and control the
probability and the impact of unfortunate events or to maximise the realisation of
opportunities. Risk management objective is to assure uncertainty does not deflect the
endeavour from the business goals (Ellenbecker and Tsai, 2015). The major principle of risk
management is to create value resources expanded to mitigate risk should be less than the
consequence of inaction. Howman and Workwarth development can adopt the systematic
risk management practices through which it can overcome the mentioned hazards. This
practices are as follows-
Risk register Harzard 1 Hrazard 2
A risk register also referred to as a
risk log, it is a master document
which is created during the early
stages of project (Haas and Yorio,
2016). On the other hand risk register
is the major tool to overcome the risks
and hazard at workplace. By use of
this risk register, company can
In order to over come the
risk of working at height,
workers or labour who
are working at height
should made proper
arrangement for working
in this context. They
should aware about the
In order to overcome the risk of
excavation activities, people
should adopt the risk register
under which various mitigation
strategies has been
included..People who are
involved in the excavation
activities, they should focus on
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measure the area of risk at workplace
and put the efforts to overcome it. It is
also refereed to as a risk log, in other
word it can be said that risk register is
a master document which is created
during the early stages of project
(What you need to do about health
and safety. 2016). It is an effective
technique that play an important part
in the risk management plan, it
assisting corporation to track the
issues and address problems as they
arise (Hadad and et.al., 2013).
risk which may occurs
during the period of
working at height. By use
of risk register, person
can prepare the chances
of risk and add the
strategies to decrees the
risk.
the better condition of working
at workplace. They should set
the proper environment at
workplace through which
people can escape from
uncertain situation of risk.
Risk Register
Risks Likelihood (1-5) Impact (1-5) Severity Mitigation strategies
Working from
height
5 4 20
Extreme
 Proper guidelines
 Appropriate gears
 Awareness within
employees
 Providing better working
conditions.
Excavation
Activities
4 4 16
High
 Set proper arrangement of
workplace where
construction is going to
organise
 Remove the excavation
activities from the
workplace.
As per the above table it has been concluded that Howman and Workwarth development can adopt
the various essential mitigation strategies in order to overcome the hazard or risk for the people who
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are involved in the construction work of project HWD Wood side office. The implication of
mitigation strategies on the certain risk are as follows-
Working from height
In the place of construction of project HWD wood side office,there have risk related to high level
height so workers may have uncertainty regarding uncertain accident. (Harris, Olsen and Walker,
2012) Through this hazard they may dead if they get in balance at their surface or they can face the
high level of accident. In order to prevent from this accident, company use adopt the following
mitigation strategies which are as follows- Proper guidance- Worker or labours who are working at the highest height at the
construction project place, corporation should give them proper guidance before their work
starts at workplace. With assistance of this strategy, people can get the knowledge and skill
about working of at such circumstances (Healy, 2011). Further they can get proper
instruction about working in the height situation at construction place. Appropriate gear-This is the most essential mitigation strategy which should gives to the
labours and worker who are working in the construction project. By use of this tool,
company can train its employees and enhance their efficiency and capability related to
working. With assistance of training and development programs they can learn the various
new criteria and techniques of handle large complicated work at workplace ( Health and
Safety at Work etc Act 1974. 2016). Awareness within labours and workers- On e another mitigation strategy is awareness
within workers. Under this strategy, employees who are completely involved in the
construction work can get the entire awareness about uncertain condition and risk related to
construction place. Every worker should aware about the uncertain condition which may
occurs at nay time at workplace. By use of this tool, they can escape from the hazard. Providing better condition- On another strategies to overcome the impact of hazard and this
situation at construction place is providing proper condition. Cited venture should provide
the proper working environment to workers so as they can safety carried out their
constriction activities ( Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. 2016). The working
environment and place should be proper managed and well designed where all required
resources and equipment should available so as workers can easily carry their work.
Excavation activities
 Set proper arrangement- In order to overcome the accident from the excavation activities,
company should adopted the the strategy of proper arrangement. Under which all necessary
equipments and resources should be properly arranged at workplace and remove
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unnecessary resources from the workplace (Tributor, C., 2014. Non-compliance with WHS).
Through this labours and workers may not face any kind of problem related to their
construction work and they can escape from accident which may occur from unnecessary
resources and equipments.
C)
Health and safety excellence is procedure under which people can know about the safety
and security from the uncertain accidents and hazard at the workplace. The extent of human misery
as a result of accident or ill health at work can not be calculated. It is clear that accidents also lead
to substantial losses the most obvious of which are financial losses to employers, employees and
businesses. The construction industry by its nature can also have a significant impact outside the
immediate work situation, in particular causing risk to members of the public and to the
environment (What you need to do about health and safety. 2016). In other word it can be said that
excellence is not a term defined in health and safety legislation, it is a concept used widely in
business management. Excellence relates to the tangible achievement of an organisation in what I
does, how it does, the result it gets and the confidence the results will be sustained in the future.
Moreover it can be said that excellence in health and safety provides legal compliance in an
efficient way,It is how the organisation achieves effective risk management that defines excellences.
In the context of Howman & Workwarth organisation it has adopted an excellence of health and
safety management through which every one in the corporation can able to understand the the
important of health and safety measures at the time of construction at the workplace. In addition to
this, company can also able to control the risk and hazard at workplace through which employees
can escape from uncertain accident. A key message is that excellence is deliver the legal
compliance in an effective ways ( Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. 2016).. The organisation
anticipates hazards and assess risk leading to timely and efficient spends on effective control
measures. This HWD introduces the concept of excellence s applied to health and safety
management and risk control. It describes some of the main features of an excellent organisation
and explains some of the ways it mights measures progress towards excellence.
As per the excellence of health and safety management in construction, every one involved in the
construction has a responsibility for health and safety (Health and safety in care homes. 2014).
Planners and designer must ensure their designs provide a safe and healthy environment for the
eventual user and that the designs can be constructed and maintained without exposing the
workplace to undue risk.
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CONCLUSION
Health and safety management is a procedure to determine workplace hazards, and
decreasing an accidents and exposures to harmful situation and substance. In the context of
construction, health and safe arrangements are very essential aspects to protect the people health
who are involved in the construction work from the uncertain hazards and risk. From this project
report it has been concluded that there are various legislation and regulation which has developed to
protect the people in the construction work. Howman and Workwarth development company has
successfully attempted the various legislation such as CDM regulation 2015.As per this act, cited
ventures employees has benefited related to their health and safety aspect. From this project report it
has been also concluded tat there are various roles and responsibility of contractors, designers and
architect of the construction project Howman and Workwarth development company. All members
should consciously followed the rules and regulation of the construction (Design and management)
regulation 2015.
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REFERENCES
Journals & Books
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Howman & Workwarth Developments
Excellence in health and safety culture and risk control
Started from April 1st 2017 and the completion date is August 28th 2017
HWD postholder/owner
HWD Cleared by
HWD Types
Colin Greenslade Head of stratrgy planning and
regulatery management
John Gillespie Head of central regulation Group
Policy-
Information-
Procedures
Keywords -Excellence , corporate strategy, theme 2, health and safety culture, health and safety
risk control.
Summary -This HWD introduces the concept of excellence s applied to health and safety
management and risk control. It describes some of the main features of an excellent organisation
and explains some of the ways it mights measures progress towards excellence. It counters the
myth that striving for excellent health and safety management is gold plating or a drive to go
beyond SFAIRP for health and safety reason. Company is using the regulating act and legislation
of health and safety for its employees and workers. Through which they can escape from uncertain
accidents and hazards at workplace. This is because organisations with excellence management
deliver legal compliance in an efficient way. Cited company has consciously followed all relevant
measure in order to control the risk and it has also followed the special arrangement for the
workers and people who are around the construction workplace. So as they can escape from the
hazard sand risk.
Original construction- HWD director ,Howman & Workwarth development company
Cilpen Architects of the Howman & Workwarth
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