How can we prevent mishaps at construction site ?

Present generation are very SAFETY CONSCIOUS. No organization wants to face LITIGATION and SOCIAL THREATS on account of any MISHAPS in their PROJECT.

Various Measures and Techniques are available to ensure SAFETY at WORK Premises...

BUT all the Efforts and Expectations to ensure SAFETY shall go invain, provided the required BUDGET is not allocated to support SAFETY ACTIVITIES at PROJECT.

Safety is a primal requirements in the constructional sites. To avoid any mishap in the site we have to adopt strict safety measures and very important is strict implimenting of it. regular checking, as per safety manual, safety report analisation, to check regular implimentation measures will definetly decreases the mis hap or the risks in the construction site.

RECURIT INTELLIGENT AND EXPERIENCED STAFF ONLY.

IF ABOVE IS NOT POSSIBLE, PROVIDE FULL TRANING TO STAFF FOR POSSIBLE SAFETY LAGS AT SITE AND HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO FOLLOW DESIGN PARAMETERS STRONGLY.

PROVIDE GOOD EMOTIONAL AND MORAL SUPPORT TO DOWN THE LINE TEAM ,LABOUR' SUPERVISORS,' SITE ENGINEERS'

GOOD SAFETY PROCEDURES SHOULD BE MADE AND THESE PROCEDURES SHOULE BE THROWN OPEN UP TO LABOUR THROUGH REPEATED TRANNING PROGRAMES.

EVERY LABOUR AND SUPERVISOR SHOUND BE MADE TO WORK AND THINK LIKE SAFETY OFFICER.

NO BODY WANTS TO DIE! NO BODY AT SITE WANTS TO KILL ANY BODY. AND NO BODY CAN THRUST SAFETY UPON ANY BODY. GENERATE CONDITIOND THAT EVERY BODY TAKES CARE OF HIMSELF.

TARGET FOR NEXT 20 YEARS SHOULD BE THAT : SLOGAN," WE ARE SAFETY OFFICERS,WE DONT NEED SAFETY OFFICER".: " WE CAN TAKE CARE OF OUVERSELVES AND OUR SUBBORTINATES, LIKE WE TAKE CARE OF OUR FAMILY".

WE WILL NOT LET ANY BODY DIE, NOT AT ALL, AND NOT AT ANY COST.

FOR HIGHER MANAGEMENT, IF THEY REALLY WANT SAFE SITE WORKING CONDITIONS THEN PLEASE PROVIDE MORE THAN SUFFICIENT BUDGET AND TIME .

well i do agree with all ladies and gentlemen, but my personal experience at various sites is the safety training provided is not up to the mark, please no offence this is general statement, the main reason is the labour who are not educated but they have the skill. even if you train them in their own language most of the time they will have some thing on ther mind, so at site the safety officer has to be alert and keep check at each and every critical and accident prone area well equipped with cell phone, walkie talkie and a camera and most important a whistle to alert and make sure that people are aware of his presence, site supervisors, site engineerings should be held responsible for any safety lapse and shud his name be displayed next to the  site photo clearly showing safety lapse. helmets safety belts are mandatory but at many places it is ignored. so the safety officer has to be deputed at every site within the project limit.

1. The Cause of Metro accident has been declared by Mr. E. shridhran was Design fault !!! If it is design fault then whole Metro line column having similar cantilever is susceptible to similar kind of accident as there is replication of design in similar kind of structure. Second was poor quality of concrete or poor curing. Again if there is concrete failure then the accident would have not been abrupt rather sufficient warning would have been given by the structure itself by ductility of reinforcement. Which is again not the case.

2.Poor safety management for which Mr. Molanga has been demobilised. Again designing does not come under the scope of safety management however in future it may cover the scope too. Also he is a safety officer of international repute.

First of all Worksite analysis should be done like identifying all hazards by conducting baseline worksite surveys for safety and health and periodic comprehensive update surveys.

Then schedule regular site safety and health inspections, so that new or previously missed hazards and failures in hazard controls are identified.

And then describe how "imminent danger" situations are reported by employees and handled by management.

Also see the video below it may look fun this what happens many a times.....

all said and done ,the most effective way to minimise mishaps on a construction site is on the site practical demostrations of various methods of safety,lets think of human life and how precious it is and alocate more funds to this very cause.

For any project at the planning state job risk analsis has to be undertaken for each task . Which would mean all the hazards pertaining to the job are categorizes in to three categories

a) Eliminate

b) Minimise

c) Isolate

Every near misses should be recorded. Work Safety should be looked  as the prime responsibility of the project manager at the site. Regular tool box meetings should be held to make person working on siet aware of hazards on the job.

Appointing a safety officer would never make our sites safe. Site safety is the key job responsibilty of everyone working on site.

Site safe card or course should undertaken for every person working on site which has to be refreshed on regular basis.

Safety has no place in Construction Industry unless it is entrusted to Qualified and competent safety officers with committment. It is equally pertinent to have the reporting structure of the organisation directly linked to the higher management who encourage and understand the benefits of safe practices within the organisation.

Largely, in the country safety is compromised alongwith quality with the connivance of corrupt officials. As the saying goes, Construction is synonymous with Corruption. So, is the lack of will power to tackle it in the right earnest. To my experience, any measure to improve the quality of the built environment has a substantial effect on the improvement of safety of the personnel involved. Health, Safety, Security and Environment can take the top priority setting when the whole team is educated on the importance of all these aspects.

Safety on Construction sites need to be monitored by suitable local government bodies with strict authority lines to order stoppage of works during violation of safety norms. 

Checkmating corruption should be another area to explore in order to contain the unsafe practices.

Subcontractors. Special investigations on Personal protective equipments and implementation. Adopt Fine system for safety violations.

Safety must be the integral part of the project management,to be internalized by all the project engineers,supervisors,workmen,vendors,client,etc.First of all, it should be thought from Human angle as this is our moral responsibility to protect each and every human being associated with the project directly or indirectly, including associated society.Secondly,the attention must be paid to the legal and contractual aspects.And,last but not the least,the economic approach which can't be neglected either.Every mishap has got huge bearing on cost, and on time lost due to accident. We need to strive hard to work towards safety education among all the entities in a project in these angles aiming to have zero accident.

Most of the accidents at site are mainly due to lack of requisite imgination and thus the inability to over look what might go wrong. Our society is not really conscious about the safety and immediate efforts should be initiated to promote safety culture which should be started from the home and schools.

Usually the project budget does not have sufficient fund to allocate for safetey measures.

The construction Industry has moved a long way. The concept is not monitoring or maintaining vigilance. The new concept is safety assurance by not allowing unsafe activity at site of construction at all. For example –

No labour should be allowed in the site without proper safety gears

No machinery should be allowed to work beyond it’s permissible capacity

No machinery should be allowed to work without a certificate of fitness from the maintenance team etc.

Bringing awareness among the site working force is the most essential with respect to their life and to their own family, which is more dependent on their earnings.

Safe work procedure, Risk assessment, JSA, etc. All of these on its own play a significant role in controlling mishaps or untoward incident at Construction site. I agree with many that a safety officer should be appointed but we should also analyse whether the top management gives him due consideration and respect towards his potential HSE implementations.

I fail to understand why majority of us think that appointing the Safety officer will avoid Incident at site!! Now I would like to ask you all: How many of us have Appointed Safety officers in our areas of work and how many of you think that only safety officer is responsible for all the incidents that has happened? My point is if, appointing a Safety officer is going to avoid incidents then, you must be also saying that he is responsible for all the incidents happening at site because he is appointed to avoid any mishaps. IS IT RIGHT TO BLAME THE ONLY SAFETY OFFICER for the negligence and ignorance of the supervisors in the project? The Safety officer cannot be in all the places of activity all the time it is the supervisors and the site engineers who should be briefing the work force regarding the Hazards involved in the relevant task and correct any shortcomings.

The Safety Officer ensures compliance to Safe work procedure, compliance to local legislative and standards, conduct training, awareness, drills, regular site, plant & machineries inspections.

My statement is: effective implementation of all the safety measure, positive safety culture and right attitude towards Safety aspects by the Project Team and a very strong commitment by the senior management personnel by defining clear responsibility and accountability of the individual towards SAFETY will contribute a lot towards avoiding untoward incidents at Projects.

We find that on sites safety measures are taken only before any high profile visit or

before audit. it must not be like that. All engineers and subcontractors co-ordinated action is necessary.when the works involved crowd , major equipments and large forces. its wel organised.

In addition to educating the feild worker/engineer there are some point.Design of temporary work for errecting desired structure should be done with safety factor of 1.5/2 atleast without economising budget factor to avoid any disater which may cause life of some one and also the justice to image of whole engineer society.No sortcut method should be allowed at any cost.It may cause slow the work initially but final out come will be efficient/fast.

K.K.Jain

Dyce.Rly

1. Appointment of Safety Personal :- They are able to reduce the risk factors from High to Low
2. Proper training to workers :- Majority of the workers are unskilled in construction field, so they need the training regarding there work and the risk factors
3. Co-Operation :- To active 100 % safety, it is necessary co-operation of all
4. Safety Promotional Activities :- It can boost safety in all over project