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Safety Management and Site Establishment (D39MS)

• Dr. Turker Bayrak

Room: EC G.28 E-mail: t.bayrak@hw.ac.uk

Lecture plan

1. Course overview

• Objectives of the course
• Weekly schedule

2. Unit 1:

• Basic principles of safety management
• The safety problem (review of the major health and safety problems)

Course overview

This course

• Discuss safety management issues in the construction industry
• Managing Safety – not memorising safety
• Basic issues and important principles
• First exposure to formal safety training for many
• Will not produce safety experts
• Concentrates on practical management of real safety issues
• Students should become familiar with HSE (Health and Safety Executive )

website - http://www.hse.gov.uk

• Discuss various aspects relevant to site establishment
• Basic factors and practices involved in establishing and running

construction sites

• All lectures will be here
• Tutorials during the second half of the lecture or as

part of it

• Reading list available on Course Handbook and

Course Overview document

• Lecture notes and presentation slides on Vision

Course Delivery

Course Delivery – Lecture Plan

Week No Unit description (Monday 11.15 am – 1.15 pm) Week 1 Unit 1 - Basic Principles of Safety Management and Safety Problem Week 2 Unit 2 - Accidents within the construction industry Week 3 Unit 3 – Construction safety law – the main laws that are applicable to the site situation (Part 1) Week 4 Unit 4 – Construction safety law – the main laws that are applicable to the site situation (Part 2) Week 5 Unit 5 – Managing health and safety in construction Week 6 Unit 6 – Risk assessment Week 7 Unit 7 – Creating a safer construction site – training Week 8 Unit 8 – Creating a safer construction site – Site practice Week 9 Unit 9 – Site establishment – layout, site procedures, organisation, approvals, initial works Week 10 Unit 10 – Temporary works – scaffolding, formwork, falsework, excavation support, road works Week 11 Unit 11 – Plant management – inc. planned preventative maintenance, plant utilisation, selection safety & Plant – hoists, transport, cranes, excavators, material handling Week 12 Discussion on mock exam answers + Revision

Assessment

• Single exam (2 hour)
• Course is 100% assessed by the exam
• Exam carries three compulsory

questions

• NO MATERIALS permitted in the

exam hall

• In the ‘Basic Principles of Safety Management’ section:
• basic philosophy of workplace safety and

establishes this as a basic human right

• In the ‘Safety Problem’ section:
• review of the major health and safety problems
• the state of safety action in the construction industry

worldwide

Unit 1:Basic principles of safety management and the safety problem

Classroom Activity

Working as 4 separate group, create a poster for each of the following and present to your CMs:

• Origins of H&S: Why, when and how it might have started?

What were the implications?

• Why do we need H&S? Explain full benefits of H&S in

construction.

• What is the true cost of an accident?
• What are the most common hazards in construction sites?

(First create list, categorise, and then put them into some

• rder of significance)

THE RULE

BE ABLE TO COME BACK AND DO IT AGAIN TOMORROW

THE CHOICE

EMPLOYEE NOT SLAVE HIRED NOT BOUGHT RENTED NOT SOLD

Basic principles of safety management

The rights

• Right to life
• Protection from preventable

injury and diseases

• Information
• Training

The priorities

1 – PUT PEOPLE FIRST 2 - IN CASES OF DOUBT, SEE RULE 1 THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS :-

• WARTIME
• RESCUE SERVICES
• UNIQUE EVENTS e.g. Chernobyl
• But not building sites

So why bother with H&S?

Le Legal gal Mor Moral al Busines Business

Civil cases Fines and costs Court time Notices Pain and suffering Duty to fellow human being Premiums Uninsured losses Reputation Morale Productivity

The true cost of an accident

To the victim:

• Pain and suffering
• Extra cost, less income
• Continued disability
• Incapacity – for job and other activities

The true cost of an accident

To the working group:

• Shock and personal grief
• Low morale
• Affected production

The true cost of an accident

To those responsible:

• Worry and stress
• Recrimination and guilt
• Extra work

a) reports b) staff replacement

• Loss of credibility

The true cost of an accident

To the firm:

• Lost working time

a) the victim b) others

• Damaged equipment
• Insurance costs
• Prosecution or civil

action

Is good health & safety good business?

Safety benefits

• Prevent suffering and maintain quality of life
• Less downtime
• Less damage and loss
• Deadlines met
• Improved morale
• Less absenteeism
• Better reputation
• Better business
• Lower costs
• HIGHER PROFITS !!

Reasons given for poor safety

What reasons do you think people give for poor safety ?

» By Managers ? » By Employees ?

History of health and safety

Early UK Laws

• Had first formalised safety laws in the western world
• Very specific, inflexible and weak
• For controlling moral situations

Trade Unions

• Safety issues were taken seriously

New UK Law

• HASWA (the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974)

changed the whole safety culture

Philosophy

Safety is more about attitudes than rule

• r rule book

Good safety is a state of mind Safety is in quality

Hazards and risks

Hazards - things that might cause harm

• A Jumbo Jet flying overhead
• Wet concrete

List some others which might cause harm on a building site

1 ......... 2 ......... 3 .........

Risks - the chance of that hazard actually resulting in harm

• JUMBO JET CRASHING ON SITE
• WET CONCRETE

BUT HOW CAN WE COMPARE DIFFERENT RISKS ?

Risk assessment

Is the process we use to assess the different degrees of risk – leading to

• 1. SAFE WORKING METHODS

and

• 2. MANAGEMENT PRIORITIES

The safety problem in the construction industry

• High accident and illness record compared to other

industries – how bad is it where you work?

(Source: HSE, 2013)

• Almost all the incidents are preventable, and are

common knowledge. What are the most common ?

The safety problem in the construction industry

• High accident and illness record compared to other industries

– how bad is it where you work?

(Source: HSE, 2013)

• Almost all the incidents are preventable, and are common
• knowledge. What are the most common ?
• Why is construction industry more

problematic in H&S issues than others?

• How can this be mitigated?

In groups, create a spider diagram to answer the question you are allocated.

What is the outlook for the construction sector?

• Mobile workplace
• Complex processes
• Mobile workforce
• Multi employer system
• Mixture of skill levels
• Macho image
• Money

Management problems

• Co-ordinating many employers, contractors and

self employed

• Competing priorities
• Maintaining overall control
• The pace of change
• Variables (and extreme) weather
• What others ?

But .........

These are not especially dangerous factors, and are no different to many other industries now They are often just used as excuses for inaction All are manageable – and so are unacceptable

Management solutions

From a UK government report ‘Rethinking Construction’ into the future of construction.

• Committed leadership
• Focus on the customer
• Integrated processes and teams
• Quality driven agenda
• Commitment to people

Which of these include safety ?

Don’t forget to read the lecture notes......