Stakeholders involved in construction for managing safety

1. Safety
in Construction
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2. Stakeholders
• Role of Stakeholders in Construction Safety
• Different stakeholders have specific roles in preventing accidents
• Contractor - undoubtedly the pivotal party to establish safety
• Designers –address safety issues in their designs that can help eliminate hazards in the
site
• Owners - essential masterpiece in safety
• In the past, there was a reluctance of owners to become involved in construction safety
for fear of liability
Owner
Designer
Contractor

3. Designer and construction safety
Designers definitely do have a role in construction safety
Unfortunately, most of the designers do not want to be involved in the safety
Designer has to identify any hazard in their design which may be present during
construction or maintenance
The motivation to avoid involvement is simple – to avoid litigation
Design decisions directly affect construction safety
New design concepts are often rejected because they appear to be dangerous
Often the design decisions determine construction methods
(DfCS) is a procedure and routine in which the safety and health of construction
workers
are clearly taken into account by engineers and architects during the design process.
(PtD) can be defined as the practice of anticipating and designing out potential
occupational safety and health hazards and risks associated with new processes,
structures, equipment, or tools, and organizing work, such that it takes into
consideration the construction, maintenance, decommissioning, and
disposal/recycling of waste material, and recognizing the business and social benefits
of doing so.
Ref – Farooqui, RU et al., Designing for Construction Safety – A Construction
Management Approach, https://www.irbnet.de/daten/iconda/CIB10269.pdf

4. Contractor responsibility in
construction safety
• The ‘‘Contractor’’ is a person or company engaged in work related to the
construction of a project.
• This also means someone who manages or carries out the construction work or
even a person who supplies labour or materials for a project.
• Contractor is responsible for safety at the construction site. Responsible for
preparing a safety plan and for
carrying it out
• For a contractor safety in site – owner is responsible
• Contractor provides knowledgeable, skilled and experienced manpower with
sufficient resources to comply with safety management.
• Contractor evaluate effectiveness of orientation or trade specific training
periodically.
• Contractor reviews plans and job safety analysis before start of work.
• Contractor always communicates safety improvement progress.
• Contractor investigates safety incidents, injuries and near-misses for improving
safety management

5. Workers responsibility in construction
safety
Report hazardous conditions to the employer and seek treatment promptly
Workers have
• The right to be shown how to work safely - Access to health & safety information.
• Work in a healthy and safe environment – follow the health & safety procedure
• Get appropriate training before you start the work – pay attention to the training
• Work with safe machinery, vehicles, tools and equipment
• Under section 26 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1984, employees may
refuse to undertake some work where they have 'reasonable grounds' to believe
there is a risk of imminent and serious injury or harm to health. the right to speak
up about work conditions & the right to be consulted about safety in the workplace
• Talk to your supervisor if you think a task is too dangerous or difficult for you -
Speak up & volunteer for promoting safety in site
• Know the health and safety procedures in your workplace, including emergency
• Procedures - Be provided with clean drinking water & toilets
• The right to workers compensation
• PPE!!

6. Who is responsible for Worker’s Safety?
If an owner is responsible for a contractor’s workers’ safety on their worksite, what
is the contractor responsible for?
Contractor’s workers are performing work on your worksite
In principle, you therefore owe the same duties to contractors and their workers as
you do to your own workers
Due to this, it is not acceptable to say that you relied on a contractor to identify
hazards or adopt a safe system of work during their time in your workplace.
BUT contractors still have their own duty of care to comply with when working in
your workplace.
A contractor must take positive steps to ensure the worksite its workers are sent to
does
 Not pose risks to their health and safety. This may require the contractor to make
 Enquiries and implement processes to ensure that its workers are not instructed
to, and
 Do not carry out work in a manner that is unsafe while at the host employer’s
worksite.
Concurrent liability - If a worker of a contractor is injured in your workplace, both
the client and the contractor can be held liable under health and safety legislation.
 In concurrent liability, two or more parties are independently liable for the same
incident.
 its own workers.

7. Employer Responsibilities - OSHA
Provide a workplace free from serious hazards
Comply with appropriate safety standards
Make sure employees use safe tools and equipment. Properly maintain this
equipment
Use color codes, posters, labels or signs to warn employees of potential hazards
Establish or update operating procedures and communicate them to the
employees
Provide medical examinations and training when required by OSHA standards
Report hospitalizations and fatalities promptly to the OSHA
Keep records of work-related injuries and illnesses and post these records
Provide employees, former employees and their representatives access to
the Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses
Provide access to employee medical records and exposure records to employees
or their authorized representatives.