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The construction (design and management) regulation 1974 |
Enforced the industry to accommodate changes in the regime of managing health and safety |
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Changes influencing the safety climate will be: |
1. New procurement routes 2. Client expectations 3. Larger projects 4. Increasingly Complex organizations for managing projects and safety system
Mining and fishing industry has higher fatalities (1000 workers) 1997-98 & 1998-99 (1900s) Legal, economic and moral aspects. |
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Health and safety in construction |
(1) The magnitude of the problem
(2) Health and safety legislation
(3) The cost of safety
(4) The role of safety officer
(5) Changing attitudes to safety |
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Magnitude of the problem: Non fatal major injuries by kind of accident |
Fall from heights -35% Slips, trips or falls -21% Struck by moving or falling objects -18%
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Abbreviations |
BRE -Building Research Establishment |
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Health and safety legislation: Two major pieces of legislation w/c govern health and safety law. |
1. The health and safety at work 1974 2. The management of health and safety at work 1999 |
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Several statutory instruments governing safety. |
1. The construction (health, safety, and welfare) regulations 1996 2. The construction (design and management) regulations 1994 3. The provision and use of work equipment regulations 1998 4. The personal protective equipment regulations 1992 5. The construction (head protection) regulation 1989 6. The lifting operations and lifting equipment regulations 1998 7. The confined risk regulation 1997 8. The reporting of injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences regulation 1995 |
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THSWA 1974 |
Entirely new philosophy of managing of health and safety |
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Obligations of managers... and four particular aims |
1. To secure the health and safety and welfare of persons at work 2. To protect persons other than persons at work against risk to health and safety 3. To control the keeping and use of explosive or highly flammable or otherwise dangerous substances 4. To control the emission into the atmosphere of noxious or offensive substances |
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Principal objective: |
Involve everybody at the workplace -workplace and management- to create an awareness of the importance of achieving high standards of health and safety |
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From the generalized duty, employers have detailed responsibilities: |
(1) to develop systems of work w/c are practicable, safe, and have no risk to health
(2) to provide plant to facilitate this duty, and this general requirement is to cover all plant used at the workplace
(3) to provide training in the matter of health and safety
(4) to provide a working environment
(5) to provide a working statement of safety policy and to establish an organizational framework for carrying out the policy |
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Employees duty: |
(1) to take care of their health and safety
(2) to cooperate with the employer to enable everyone to comply with the statutory provisions |
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Structure of the safety and health commission |
1. Health and safety commission 2. Health and safety executive 3. Safety policy division (division B, info), resources and planning, mines and quarries, medical services, Chief inspector of factories (21 areas each with principal inspector), hazardous substances (information), alkali, nuclear hazard, and research 4. Area construction industry inspector (95 in total) |
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3 possible remedies exist: |
1. The issue of improvement notices
2. Issue of prohibition notices
3. Issue of 'seize and destroy' instruction
4. Prosecute a person who does not comply with the above |
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Improvement notices |
Site is the contravention of the statutory provision |
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Prohibition notices |
Inspector is of the opinion that cons activities being carried out involve the risk of serious personal indury |
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Seize and destroy notices |
Causes imminent danger to persons |
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They have the power to prosecute |
HSE |
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MHSWR 1992 |
Specific direction on how to carry out duties |
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Assessment, the workforce should be told three facts |
1. The risk that have been identified
2. What action are to be taken to prevent the risk
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Risk assessment |
1. Seriousness of the risk 2. Type of assessment made (routine or generic assessment) 3. The integration of the contractor's assessment with those of other contractors. |
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MHSWR 1992 |
Specific direction on how to carry out duties |
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CHSWR 1996 |
Consolidated and updated a range of regulations which were put in place during 1960s |
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1996 regulation requires employers to provide: |
(1) safe access and egress from places of work
(2) safety railings to prevent falls
(3) competent tradespeople to erect and dismantle scaffolding
(4) designate areas where hard hats must be worn
(5) rules concerning demolition
(6) support for open excavation
(7) rules for handling explosives |
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The risk assessmentment |
1. Seriousness of the risk
2. Type of assessment made (routine or generic assessment)
3. The integration of the contractor's assessment with those of other contractors. |
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CDMR 1994 |
Emanated from European legislation |
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Parties in construction process |
1. The client 2. The Planning supervisor 3. The designer 4. Principal contractor |
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Has the statutory duty to appoint the planning supervisor
Provides the detail of proj in terms of func, scale, location, etc
Responsible in selecting consultant
Appoint a contractor who is competent |
The client |
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PS responsibilities |
1. Creating a safety plan
2. Developing a safety file
3. Ensuring that the design are safe
PS must be appointed as soon as is practicable after the inception of the project. |
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Safety plan |
Prepared before the arrangements are made |
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safe plan should be: |
1. A general description of the work
2. The timescale of the project
3. Details of risks to health and safety of the workforce
4. Details of how resources are allocated in managing safety |
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Principles underpinning the protection of workers |
1. If possible, avoid risk completely 2. Combat risk at source 3. Adapt work to the individual 4. Take advantage of technological progress 5. |
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COST OF SAFETY |
C(A) = R(D)*[A(OD)] + R(S)*[A(SS)+A(OS)] + R(O)*[A(SO)+A(OO) C(A) annual accident cost per worker R(D) annual risk of death per worker R(S) ... serious injury per worker R(O) ... other injury per worker ~ A: (S) subjective element of cost (O) objective elem of cost |
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Indirect cost |
1. Injures worker cost 2. transporting cost 3. Crews cost 4. Costs of hiring replacement worker 5. Other crew cost 6. Supervisory cost |
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Role of safety officer |
1. Advisers to site management
2. Undertakes a safety responsibilities on sites |
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Modus operandi, SO will have responsibilities for:7 |
1. The development of safety culture
2. Delivery a safety policy
3. Provision of safety training |
