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Health and Safety Management : Project Report

   

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................4A)..........................................................................................................................................................4B)..........................................................................................................................................................8C)........................................................................................................................................................12CONCLUSION..................................................................................................................................13REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................142

INTRODUCTIONHealth and safety management is an organised efforts and procedure in order to identifyingworkplace risk and overcome an accident and exposures to harmful situation and substances. Themajor objective of heath and safety management is to provide the awareness and knowledge aboutthe accident preventions, accident response, emerging preparedness and use of protective clothingand equipment (Guzman and et.al., 2015). In the context of construction work, health and safetymanagement is very essential to provide the protection from accident at workplace of labours andworkers. A good safety and management system can go a long way to assist prevent accidents andoccupational hazards. In order to provide the protection and safety to labours, workers and peoplearound them (Hughes and Ferrett, 2011) , UK government has been developed various legislativeframeworks and regulation. In this project report, the excellence in health and safety managementhas been discussed with respect of Howman and Workwarth development. It is a well establisheddevelopment company with a portfolio of successful commercial and light industrial developmentproject throughout UK. In addition to this, the aspect which should consider by the developmentcompany 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 forworkers, labours and people around them. Health and safety management is a procedure todetermine workplace hazards, and decreasing an accidents and exposures to harmful situation andsubstance. In the context of Howman and Workwarth development it is a well establishdevelopment company which is going to develop a portfolio of successful commercial and lightdevelopment project throughout UK. HWD are seeking to extend their portfolio with an officeblock development that is HWD Wood side office.An office building is to be constructed. It required for road resurfacing works and associated carpark work. The plot is approximately 110m*90m in size. It is bounded by main road to the north ofthe site, housing to the east of the site, a primary school to the west and woodland to the south ofthe site. In order to contract this Cilpen architects have been appointed as a principle designer ofthis project. As a principle constructor of this [project I am responsible to develop a production of aconstruction 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 isWood side office along with the plot that is approximately 110m*90m in size. It is bounded by mainroad to the north of the site, housing to the east of the site, a primary school to the west and3

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 arevarious arrangement and requirements at the time of contribution about health and safety. As per theUK 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 rulesand regulation about the safety and security of people at workplace. It is also known as theCDM regulations or CDM 2007 (Johnstone, Bluff and Clayton, 2012).It defined legal dutiesand responsibility for the safe operation of UK construction sites. They were superseded bythe construction regulation 2015.This regulation implied special duties and responsibility onclients, designers and constructors, to plan their approach to health and safety.CDM were introduced by the health and safety executive's construction division which isrequired to improve project planning and management.(Frieden, 2013) It assignedappropriate personnels to manage on the site hazards. It also implies for safety and healthand discourage bureaucracy.CDM 2007 applied to all construction and covers construction activities such as building,civil engineering, engineering construction work, demolition, site preparation and siteclearance.The purpose of the CDM regulation 2007 is to improve the health and safety on allconstruction projects. All people who are involved in the construction project, to takeresponsibility for health and safety standards through better planning, design and4

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