Construction Supervisor Competencies

In the article “Identifying construction supervisor competencies for effective site safety”, Dylan Hardison, Michael Behm, Matthew R. Hallowell, and Hamid Fonooni discussed about the importance of the front line construction supervisor’s capabilities in construction safety’s management by using a Delphi process in which a logical arrangement of foreman’s competencies would be illustrated. In addition, they also considered about the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (or OSHA) 30-hour training, which is known as an instructing class providing safety information for construction supervisors to help them administer a safe and healthy workplace (OSHA, 2011). The authors, basically, questioned the efficiency of the OSHA training for supervisors because, as they mentioned in the paper, the necessity of foreman’s proficiency in OSHA was not clear. Therefore, the writers conducted a research about the needed-skills of front-line supervisors and suggested an order for these skills by applying the Delphi method. Besides, they pointed out the influences of the role of the administrator in the operation of construction safety by showing the London 2012 Olympics construction projects, which required the professional skills of safety managers and demonstrating the impact of the superintendent on the productivity of the workers. After that, the literature review, technically based on the authors’ knowledge about the management of construction site safety and health performance, indicated several competencies that the front line supervisors should …show more content…
In this case, they expressed that the positive effects on the safety performance would be established by a satisfactory communication between the supervisor and the laborer. The writers, additionally, gave an example of this by pointing out that the worker’s safety performance could be improved by a good explanation of foreman about the job site conditions.
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