How safe are the construction workers?

Good health of workers means fewer mistakes in site and less accident. Healthy workers can give better out turn. But, the problem is that they never stick to one work place and hence the builders treat casually to them. There fore, we may consider health and man hour safety in construction site as two different aspect. Health of workers is a national property and government should think for health insurance etc. for all workers as a policy decision. In order to make the construction site accident free, the safety officer should be empowered to follow all the safety rules with out any kind of interference. He should be responsible for accident as well as should be rewarded for safe man hours.

If cost of construction is going to rise the cost of life is going to decrease and if cost of construction is going to decrease certainly life of labour will be more precious for the employers.No need to explain in detail I hope.

• You are right Pragya, In addition need to bring awareness programs about safety by introducing weekly TOOL BOX meeting at Site.Need to generate empathy by Supervisors/foremans towards workers if worker has family issues inorder to avoid absentism at work by keeping those workers to less hazardous areaof workplace, to avoid accident at site. Also main important concern is to teach new workers about how to operate construction equipments,machinaries,tools before leaving them independentaly to operate.Also how to handle/carry blockworks n other heavy materials.

Yes the workers involved in construction field are most uneducated they don't know what to do in safety measure,even subcontractors labour contractor also coming in uneducated stage,by experience they are doing work.companies giving safety hooks but that was not connected with the nearby safety points.When accident occurs they feel,but before that they lost their parts.so safety should strictly followed by contract firm.one safety officer is not enough for one site so many peoples should be posted in single site.

Safety culture can not be made with a single day. From the school days onwards we have to start inculcating Safety culture and practices. Govt. should take a lead to incorporate the aspects in the curriculum. For the immediate purpose, the management of each construction company shall insist the safety standards to be implemented at site. In Saudi Arabia the organizations like ARAMACO and all make their own safety standards and insist that the contractors to get pre qualified before the tender is issued. Then they also monitor whether the standards are maintained at site. So a will is a must to ensure the safety at site. We all should acknowledge that Safety at the site is the responsibility of all;not safety departments alone. We shall remember this all the time. And also the safety's basic principle

Expect the Unexpected always

 after all they are part of us and safety is of paramount importance.........we need to equip them with modern safety stds.

In India, construction work force die due to ill safety norms. Very rare cases the construction workers suffering with cancer, TB etc.,. Those were also has been noticed in industrial constructions.

i support Pragya'stipulations.it is high time that construction industries devote more time for safety.The certain percentage of their profit should be allocated towards health,insurance, and education.

Unfortunately, the truth is that all the safety officers are trained in Fire Safety & Industrial Safety, but no emphasis is laid in these institutes for the Construction Safety. They get trained only on site after employment. Even worse, the construction safety enforcing & governing bodies do not have the real intention to bring about safety among the workers. Further, every company lays emphasis to cover up the incidences spending big sums Instead probably the same big sums if put for training & providing better facilities, the incidences & accidents will reduce. Till such a concern percolates into the heart of every individual in the construction industry you cannot consider anyone safe, including the engineers & officers.

No. PERIOD.

What is safety? Dont use such alien terms here.

Thats the state of affairs in our country. 

Keep praying that things improve

Construction work Worldwide is know for its Occupational hazards and deaths due to accidents on Construction sites are the topmost, yet in India we have touched upon only the tip of the Iceberg in terms of adoption of Health and Safety Standards in this industry and Legislation to protect the Health and Safety of the workers is merely on paper. Every company needs to have in place a Health and Safety policy, which will be signed of by the CEO and would be strictly followed, then only their lives will improve