Construction Safety and Risk Management: Analysis and Strategies

This presentation delves into the critical aspects of safety and risk management within the construction industry. It begins with an introduction highlighting the industry's economic contributions and employment generation, while acknowledging the inherent hazards. The presentation focuses on the BGC Constructions company, detailing its operations and role in the construction landscape. It then explores the various types of risks, including client, contractor, health, safety, and fire risks. A significant portion is dedicated to health and safety risks, citing statistics and outlining specific hazards such as electrical issues, airborne toxins, falls, and moving objects. The presentation evaluates the effectiveness of existing risk management strategies, such as BGC's TRISAFE framework. It also outlines the processes of risk identification, assessment, and mitigation, including strategies for risk avoidance, transfer, reduction, and acceptance. The presentation concludes with a discussion on risk monitoring and the identification of key stakeholders, providing a comprehensive overview of safety and risk management in construction. References are provided in APA format.

Safety and risk management
in Construction

Introduction
Construction companies plays a positive role:
• Helps to steer economic growth
• Generates employment
Major downside is that the profession is associated with
several types of hazards and health safety issues (Finkel,
2015)

BGC (Buckeridge Group of Companies)
It was set up in the year 1960, has another arm called the BGC
Constructions and it performs construction works all over Australia (BGC
Contracting, 2018).
BGC has built the famous Perth Arena

Construction industry
The construction industry generally involves the following:
• Construction works which involves the building in only specialized items only like works on the
woods, and electric related works.
• Construction of the real estate properties
• General construction
• Construction of road and bridge (Finkel, 2015).

Types of risks in Construction industry
The different types of the risks associated with the construction
industry as follows:
• Client Risks
• Contractor Risks
• Health and safety risks
• Fire risks in the construction projects (Choudhry & Iqbal, 2012)

Background of Health and safety risks
Statistics have shown that construction sites are one of the most hazardous and vulnerable places
for the employees. With 90 percent of the accidents are occurring that could have been avoided
(Hse.gov.uk, 2018).
Source: [Hse.gov.uk.,
2018]

Health and safety risks
The different types of the health and safety
risks are as follows:
• Electrical hazards
• Airborne toxins and fibres
• Fatal respiratory issues arising from
Asbestos
• Unintended falls and collapse
• Mishandling of materials
• Hand and vibration syndrome arising due
to the usage of power tools
• Hazardous noise levels
• Trips and slips
• Hazards from moving objects
• Hazards of working from height (Zhou,
Goh & Li, 2015)

Effectiveness of the existing risk management
BGC constructions employs TRISAFE framework that ensures the health and safety of the laborers
and the employees (BGC Contracting., 2018).

Effectiveness of the existing risk management

Effectiveness of the existing risk management
Continuous monitoring and measurement has led to combining of both the lag and the lead
indicators into the safety parameter analysis (BGC Contracting., 2018).

Risk management

Risk identification
Risk identification involves following steps:
• Creation of a systematic process
• Gathering information from different types of sources
• Application of the different risk identification tools
• Documentation of the risks
• Documentation of the process of risk identification.
• Assessing the effectiveness of the process (Hwang, Zhao & Toh, 2014).