Implications and Impacts of Safety in Construction Industry

This article discusses the safety measures and regulations in the construction industry. It highlights the importance of safety and the responsibility of employers to ensure the health and safety of workers. The article also explores innovative solutions and applications for ensuring safety, such as wearable technologies and three-dimensional printing. Additionally, it provides various ways of preventing injuries and improving safety, including management regarding safety, accountability, and fall protection systems. The article concludes by discussing the future of safety in the construction industry. Course code: PPMP20013

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Week 10: Critically analyse the implications and impacts of safety.
Week 11: Explore modern approaches to extended projects.
Week 12: Ensure sustainability.
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Mandatory Readings
 Smith Chapters 3,
11 to 3.13;
 4801-2001;
 4804-2001;
 Smith Chapters 16
& 17;
 Smith Chapters 18,
19, 20 & 21.
Optional Readings
 Safe Work
Australia;
 AS 1470-1986;
 Australian
Constructors
Association;
 Civil Contractors;
 Department of the
Environment;
 BHP;
 AS/NZS
5911:2013.
Case Study
 BAC: Work Health
& Safety;
 BMD Empower:
1. Review using clear
terminology the
key areas and
processes of
project, program
and portfolio
management
practices as applies
to asset rich
organisations.
Safety is generally considered as an economic as well as humanitarian concern
which generally requires proper control as well as management. Different
construction sites are having different kind of safety requirements. In this filed it
is very hard to ensure that complete security exists. The employers are generally
responsible for holding the responsivity related to the health and safety of the
construction workers of the construction sites.
Despite of considering the safety of the workers a long time was taken by this
industry to cope up with the time. Due to lack of safety and regulations in
previous times all throughout time was restricted in this field.
There exists various procedures and regulations in order to ensure the security.
Besides this there also the construction companies and the clients which are
capable of getting negatively affected by the strict safety standards that exists
on the working sites, this could be encouraging the lax behaviours along with
the job performances of the workers (safeworkaustralia.gov.au, 2018).
Along with the development of the safety standards in the industry the use of
hard hats along with steel toed boots are also increasing which is considered to
be two most important protective equipment’s which are to be used by the
workers. There also exists certain other protective gears which are responsible
for protecting the workers from any kind of risk and this includes the reflective
type vests, gloves, harnesses along with the safety eye goggles and protective
masks.
Some of the heightened safety measures which are included in order to ensure
security mainly includes the routine inspection, testing the works if they have
taken any type of drug while working. All this are included in order to ensure
security of the workers.
The safety in the construction industry is developing day by day and it is
transforming for much more improvements. This would be continuing in the
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Health, Safety,
Environment and
Quality (HSEQ);
 Productivity
Commission:
Public
Infrastructure
Inquiry report;
 PMI: Submission
to the Productivity
Commission;
 BAC sustainability
Fact Sheets;
 BMD Empower.
upcoming years which would be associated with including more and more
innovative solutions and applications. This (Sanchez, Pelaez & Alis, 2017) new
safety
Instruments includes the new wearable technologies like hard hats having
motion sensors, safety vests which are having a temperature tracker in order to
track the body temperature of the worker and to prevent from heat strokes,
mobile job site management devices in order to continue with the work and to
make the job sites much more safe and efficient.
Proven professional construction tools can also be used for the purpose of
providing safe as well as manoeuvrability in the areas which are very tight and
this would be done without cutting the ability. This would also be reducing the
blade exposure or sparks in a simultaneous way.
Various ways of preventing injuries and improving the safety mainly includes the
following:
 Management regarding the safety
 safety is to be Integrate as a part of the job
 Creation of accountability at each and every levels
 Safety is to be taken into account while the project plan is being made
 it should also be made sure that the contractors are pre-qualified
regarding the safety (Zhang et al., 2015)
 BIM is to be adopted along with three dimensional printing in order to
make model of the building first before put it into real practice,
 It should also be made sure that the workers are properly trained in
appropriate areas
 must have a fall protection system
 Prevent and address substance abuse to employees
 Make safety a part of everyday conversation
 Review accidents and near misses, as well as regular inspections
 Innovative safety training, e.g. adoption of virtual reality in training
 Replace some of the works by robots (many workers may worry that
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this will decrease their employment rate)
 The employees or employers are responsible for providing fall
protection systems and to ensure the use of systems. Fall protection
can be provided by guardrail systems, safety net systems, personal
fall arrest systems, positioning device systems, and warning line
systems (Zhou, Goh & Li, 2015).
 Making sure that ladders which are being used are long enough to
safely reach the work area for the purpose of prevent injury
 Beside this the Stairway, treads, and walkways must be free from
dangerous objects as well as from debris and materials.
References
Sanchez, F. A. S., Pelaez, G. I. C., & Alis, J. C. (2017). Occupational safety and health in construction: a review of applications and trends. Industrial health,
55(3), 210-218.
Zhang, S., Sulankivi, K., Kiviniemi, M., Romo, I., Eastman, C. M., & Teizer, J. (2015). BIM-based fall hazard identification and prevention in construction safety
planning. Safety science, 72, 31-45.
Zhou, Z., Goh, Y. M., & Li, Q. (2015). Overview and analysis of safety management studies in the construction industry. Safety science, 72, 337-350.
safeworkaustralia.gov.au (2018). Home. [online] Safe Work Australia. Available at: http://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/sites/SWA [Accessed 30 May
2018].
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