Occupational Health and Safety in Construction Industry - JKL Constructions

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Part A
Description of the business
Throughout the world, the construction is one of the most hazardous industries. The
industry suffers from the basic inability towards the proper management of the health and
safety at the workplace. The cost from the number of injuries, damage to the equipment, the
financial loss from the schedule disruptions, hikes, the compensation of the workers and
insurance affect the profit margin of the construction operation (Jitwasinkul, Hadikusumo and
Memon 2016). In this assignment, the JKL constructions have been chosen for analyzing
their workplace safety rates and the incidents in the last few years together with the need for
their safety management plan for the improvement of their business profit margin. The
construction industry in which JKL constructions operates has a very poor reputation for high
rates of accident and hazard-related activities and fatal injuries on the sites. With the focus
and the target of the production in an aspect of the cost and the time, the notion of safety
usually conflicts with the work and the production (Boden, Spieler and Wagner 2016). The
injuries on the construction sites of the construction business involve personal sufferings,
productivity hampers and delay in the construction. The paper illustrates the need and the
effectiveness of the safety management system in the construction industry where JKL
constructions operate
Incidents
During the last few years, the construction industry has been receiving high criticism
regarding its performance, productivity and safety procedures in its work as compared to the
other business. JKL constructions have been on the top list in case of the injury rates in the
last few years. From electrocution, accidental falls, vehicular accidents and fatal injuries,

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overexertion, injuries resulting from equipment at the workplace, the rate of destruction and
injury rates are on the higher run in the JKL constructions from the last few years.
Figure 1; Workplace Fatal Injury Rate
Source: (Pykhtin et al. 2017)
The figure above illustrates the rate of workplace fatal injury and destruction rates in
the JKL constructions in the last few years. As depicted in the figure, the rate fell from 3.4
per 100,000 employed workers in the year 2016 to 0.4 per 100,000 workers employed in the
year 2017. Though the figure highlights the decreasing rate of injuries in the recent years, the
workplace health and safety at the construction site is still at stake.
One of the major rates of accidental injury in JKL construction is due to the falls at
the workplace. Falls are the major cause behind the fatal injuries in the construction industry.
Though according to the figure above, the rate of fatality has declined, still the current year

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recorded 265 deaths in the construction site of the company which accounts about one-third
fatalities of that year.
Figure 2; Fatal Falls in Construction
Source: (Kvorning, Hasle and Christensen 2015)
The above figure describes the three common fatal falls in JKL constructions that
caused the innumerous number of accidents and injury, some of which resulted in the death
of the workers. The risk of the fatal falls varies among the category of job in the construction
occupation of the industry (Mohammad and Hadikusumo 2015). The causes of fatalities from
the falls in the JKL constructions are various in natures.

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Figure 3; Fatalities from Falls in JKL constructions
Source: (Guo, Yiu and González 2016)
The figure above illustrates the various types of fall including fall from the struct,
grinder, and steel, fall from the roof, fall from the scaffold, staging, fall from ladder and fall
from the floor or the dock. The total number of 891 deaths in the last 5 years in JKL
construction has created an alarming call for the management of the company towards the
implementation and the development of the workplace health and safety norms.

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Part B
OHSMS manual for the business- JKL constructions
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction..........................................................................................................5
JKL constructions...................................................................................................................7
Construction as a Business.....................................................................................................7
Why the Hazards....................................................................................................................7
Construction Deaths...............................................................................................................7
Construction Injuries..............................................................................................................7
Chapter 2: Perceptions in the Industry..................................................................................7
Survey inside the company.....................................................................................................7
Contractors and mixed views.................................................................................................7
Chapter 3: Construction Safety and Health programs........................................................7
Construction safety.................................................................................................................7
Prevention Technique.............................................................................................................7
Industrial hygiene activities....................................................................................................7
Ergonomics in the construction site.......................................................................................7
Chapter 4: OSHA compliance.................................................................................................7
Construction safety and health manual...................................................................................7
Construction standards...........................................................................................................7
Worker’s compensation..........................................................................................................7