Construction Practice and Management Report - GBS, HND 2022-2023

This report provides a comprehensive overview of construction practice and management, focusing on health and safety aspects. It begins with an introduction to construction management and its importance in ensuring safe and efficient construction processes. The report then delves into the significance of health and safety in construction processes, emphasizing the high-risk nature of the industry and the need for safety standards. It explores health and safety legislations, including the role of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in setting international standards. The report also examines the role of collaboration and communication in construction practices, highlighting how effective communication can prevent errors and improve efficiency. Furthermore, it discusses the benefits of law to the construction industry, such as employee protection and improved procedures. The report also provides an overview of the demerits of Health and Safety legislation, such as rigidity and lack of compliance. Finally, the report provides a conclusion summarizing the key findings and the importance of health and safety management in construction.

Construction Practice
and Management

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Health and Safety in construction processes...............................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
Health and safety Legislations.....................................................................................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
Role of collaboration and communication in construction practices...........................................5
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................6
Benefits of the Law to construction industry...............................................................................6
TASK 5............................................................................................................................................7
Health and Safety Legislation and its demerits...........................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
The construction management is defined as the process of collecting, analysing and interpreting
information related to construction practices and thereafter implementing them for achieving safe
and seamless construction processes. This helps in ensuring the safety of not only the labourers
but also the individuals involved in the site preparation, furthermore, the management procedure,
is adequately followed, assists in designing plans for optimal and coherent usage of scarce
resources, which benefits the economy as a whole. Under this report, the various aspects and
conditions, mandatory for effective and efficient management of construction site, are
thoroughly discussed (Shejwal, 2018). By concentration on the legislation or the government
rules and regulations led down, for ensuring the health and safety of every individual involved in
construction. The significance of communication and collaboration is also defined for better
understanding how both of these aspects contribute towards productive management of resources
and ensuring health and safety standards. Moreover, the impact of various provisions and
sections drafted for safety in construction, are also discussed along with the merits and demerits
of the same.
TASK 1
Health and Safety in construction processes
The construction industry is characterised as one of the most hazardous industry in the economy,
with over 2.3 million individuals succumb to the poor and underdeveloped working conditions,
according to the International Labour Organization. Furthermore, the estimation for lethal
accidents worldwide are reported at 11000 cases for the CIS countries or countries under the
Common Wealth of Independent States agreement. These accidents are the defining factor for
adoption of health and safety standards in the construction industry, which will help the workers
perform their tasks with ease. For this purpose, the government as well as the construction work
based organizations, lays emphasis on provision of safety training to the employees and workers.
This will not only ensure the mitigation and prevention of accidents, but also help the
management in achieving long term stability or follow the going concern concept more
effectively, due to the fact that the employees or workers involved in the process of construction,
will not hesitate to perform tasks assigned to them, as they have the knowledge of organization’s

proper and systematic safety management process (Sanni-Anibire, 2022). The initiatives which
are proposed by government along with the organizations, are proven to minimise the accidents
or injuries caused by the management up to 50% and generally most of such initiatives,
concentrate on the providing the training for every construction practices. By helping the
employees identify what tasks they are expected to perform and understanding the process or
methods related to it, the underlying risks can be mitigated.
TASK 2
Health and safety Legislations
As discussed previously, the government plays a significant role in maintaining the health and
safety protocols and thereafter, helping the organizations avoid accidents while keeping the flow
of the business running. There are multiple authorities, all around the globe, who aim to provide
integrity and proper compliance requirements, for management of construction activities. The
most common and popular organization for such purpose, is the International Labour
Organization, who lays down the multiple principles for ensuring safety of labourers in different
industries, specifically from the construction industry. Furthermore, the reports provided by the
organization, define the international database on safety and health related provisions, for
occupations (Uzun, 2020). The ILO’s major strategy was defined as the Occupational Safety and
Health protocols, which involves various sub fields specialized in following aspects:
 Examination, analysis, maintenance and implementation of rules and regulations, for
providing the highest level of safety and benefits, for their physical and mental well-
being. Also, the organization aims to promote its provisions and methods, related to
health and safety aspects, throughout the public as well as the industry.
 Preparation and presentation of the conditions, which benefits an employee’s safety, by
reduction of probability of injury in the workplace. At the same time, drafting the
methods relevant for avoiding workplace injuries and preserving them for continuous
future usage (Seki, 2018). By this method, the organization can easily identify loop holes
in the construction process and avoid the same.
 International Labour Organization, also recognizes the fact that workers need protection
from the illegal and harmful activities, which the management of an entity, urges workers
to do. As the workers do not have much authority over the methods and procedures

defined by the top level management, henceforth, they require support from external
authorities, who hold relevant position in the economy and are capable of implying and
not suggesting, the various ways for legitimate and Lawful business proceedings.
 The workers who are appointed for specific tasks, by the organization, are not necessarily
fit for such role. However due to personal or professional reasons, choose to or are
mandated to stay in the same position, are backed up by this agreement. The individuals,
as per this agreement, are required to be appointed for a specific construction role as per
their knowledge, skills and experience.
TASK 3
Role of collaboration and communication in construction practices
The various procedures developed and implemented for construction practices, require proper
coordination and compliance, for effective and efficient workings. To do so, those charged with
responsibility of management of resources and other activities in an organization, are presumed
to apply the methods for ensuring proper communications are made between the employees. The
communication process therefore, results in collaboration at all levels and helps the management
avoid errors, mistakes or adverse situations in between execution of activities (Lozano-Díez,
2019). For effectively planning the various steps for construction activities, the management
must implement ways from the very beginning of a project to help employees and workers
communicate with each other and discuss all relevant aspects of their defined job positions, to
work simultaneously or be in sync with each other. Through performing activities and diverting
individual goals towards, the unified objective which the entity tends to achieve, the risks related
to under or over performance, can be mitigated and no employee, at any level, will suffer health
or safety related risks. The communication and collaboration process cannot be achieved without
the help an experienced and authoritative individual, who can influence the workers to direct
their hard-work and focus towards the organizational goal as well as avoid the selfish nature, due
to which they only concentrate on the personal goals or objectives. For tracking the various
activities performed within the organization at multiple levels and to help the management
identify gaps in between the same, the modern management software and applications, may just
be the right fit. It will not only help the organization propose substantial decisions for the current
period, but also create a benchmark for future usage. Due to the fact that such software or

applications will help provide the same information to the team members and employees, they
will be able to understand it in a better way and henceforth perform it in line with the
management, while communicating the results or outcomes with each other, for understanding
which activity needs more attention and which one has been successfully completed (Sui, 2020).
TASK 4
Benefits of the Law to construction industry
The Law is defined as the multiple provisions, conditions, procedures and rules led down by the
government for legal and systematic workings by both the public and the industry. Through such
Law, the organizations belonging to the construction industry are always seeking for better
schemes, to be applied for administrating the health and safety requirements of workers or
individuals, employed in such industry (AL-Smadi, 2021). Following are characterised as the
benefits of the Law to the construction industry as a whole:
 Protection to employees – The construction process is required to be safe and secure for
the workers, however, many a times, the companies mandate or in layman terms, push the
employees to perform a specific task, which may be beneficial to the company but not to
the worker’s health or safety. To help them avoid such problems and create a supporting
and favourable environment for every individual involved, the law requires or mandates
the management to only make the workers perform those activities which are legal and
humane, whilst being under their domain or specialization.
 Proper procedures followed – As discussed before, the employees are always at risk of
unfair employability requirements, if proper procedures are not implemented and
followed by all levels in an organization. To avoid such a situation, the law proposes
significant acts and sections, which define critically analysed and drafted rules, for
seamless internal proceedings, not only for the workers, but also for the management
(Okonkwo, 2020). The management can also make the most of such rules, as the
compliance report drafted, will act as the proof, for the company to present if it gets
caught up in an unfavourable legal situation.
 Activities performed more efficiently – By following the law, the management
becomes bound to appoint only the relevant and well fitted individual for the task, in
which such individual is specialised in, to avoid the risk of accidents or errors, as

mentioned previously. The management, occasionally may appoint someone whom they
know and will work for them as cheap labour or due to such individual having internal
connections, in this case, even if that person is not adequately performing the tasks signed
to him/her, then also his/her position will not be terminated. This legislation helps avoid
this situation and creates favourable conditions for other innocent employees.
TASK 5
Health and Safety Legislation and its demerits
The role of Health and Safety Law has been in force for a significant period of time, due to
increase in the accidents or injury rates. For making a notable decrease in such casualties, the
rules are important and mandatory to follow, as without implementation of such provisions, the
construction industry will suffer more loss then profit and will not be able to provide services to
the public, without errors or wastage of valuable resources. It has been examined that the
industry has evolved a lot since past few decades and with rise of its merits, the demerits or
drawbacks of such legislation, are also assessed. Following are the demerits of the Health and
Safety legislation:
 Rigid and Complex – The law defined by various authorities, are rigid and leave less
room for the management to encourage innovations and creativity to exist. The
provisions and procedures led down under this law does provide systematic and proper
compliance requirements, however it is not necessary that such rules and regulations, will
be followed by the management adequately, without errors, whether intentional or
unintentional. Henceforth, the overall complexity presented by the legislation, does not
provide absolute assurance, about ensuring the health and safety of the workers.
 Lack of Compliance – The management is required to concentrate on the various
provisions led down by the government to provide highest standards of safety and health
provisions to the workers employed in the construction industry. However, the
organization is made up of individuals, who, many a times, may perform their jobs
according to their personal needs and wants and as a result avoid the rules and regulations
led down by the government, if they do not benefit from them (Liu, 2021). The
legislation is incapable of solving such situations and henceforth indirectly increases the
changes of accidents at the workplace, due to avoidance of safety regulations.

CONCLUSION
The above report presents a thorough analysis and examination of the relevant safety and health
regulations, which are drafted for the individuals involved in activities of the construction sites.
To better understand the importance of the health and safety management at workplace, various
provisions and agreements are also highlighted and discussed, to provide an overview about the
importance of proper procedures and methods along with an insight in the rules made by
different nations (Chung, 2020). Furthermore, the role played by communication and
collaboration among the employees, is also reviewed along with the benefits and disadvantages
of the construction industry. The report will help management understand, how crucial and
profitable the safety and health legislation is.

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