This document discusses the engineer's responsibilities regarding construction safety. It argues that while contractors are typically responsible for safety during construction, engineers have an ethical obligation to consider safety in their designs. The "prevention through design" approach aims to anticipate and minimize hazards during construction by incorporating safety considerations early in the design process. While engineers fear this could increase their liability, prevention through design is a proactive rather than reactive role that can help reduce injuries, fatalities and costs over the long run by designing structures with worker safety in mind.
This document discusses construction safety and engineering liability. It begins by outlining current practice in the US, where contractors are responsible for workplace safety but have insurance to cover accidents, while engineers warrant their design meets standards of care. The document then examines ethics in engineering per the ASCE code, which states safety should be a top priority. Several case studies of infrastructure projects with construction-related deaths are provided, such as at World Cup venues. The document concludes by discussing strategies for preventing accidents through safer design and the implications of ethics for an engineer's liability regarding construction safety.
This document discusses the challenges mechanical engineers face in balancing technical merit with business demands and costs. Engineers are pressured to make decisions based on economics rather than safety and design quality. However, compromising technical standards can lead to failures like the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. The document outlines solutions for engineers to oppose business decisions that undermine safety and ethics. It concludes that the engineering field remains viable despite conflicts if standards of conduct are upheld.
Unit 4-GE 6075 – PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN ENGINEERING ...Mohanumar S
This document discusses various topics related to safety, responsibilities, and rights in the workplace. It begins by defining safety and risk, and explaining concepts like risk assessment, risk-benefit analysis, and reducing risk. It also discusses responsibilities like respecting authority, engaging in collective bargaining, and maintaining confidentiality to avoid conflicts of interest. The document then covers rights in the workplace, including occupational health and safety rights, employee rights, and professional rights and ethics for engineers.
The management of health and safety of construction sites in accraAlexander Decker
The document summarizes a study on the management of health and safety on construction sites in Accra, Ghana. It identifies the major types of injuries on sites as falls, being struck by falling/moving objects, and collapses. Questionnaires found contractors often underprice health and safety measures in bids. As a result, adequate safety implementation is not achieved, negatively impacting project time delivery due to accidents. The research concludes contractors must properly cost health and safety to avoid effects on schedules. It recommends establishing safety inspectors, prioritizing health and safety in estimates, and further study on associated costs.
A study about the status of implementation on safety standards and legal requ...VISHNU VIJAYAN
This document discusses a study on the status of implementation of safety standards and legal requirements pertaining to construction safety in Kerala, India. It finds that despite advances in technology and safety legislation, accidents remain common in the construction industry. Through site visits, interviews, and document analysis of several construction projects, the study evaluated the implementation of important statutory safety requirements. It identified lack of compliance with safety standards and proper implementation of relevant laws as major causes of accidents. The document emphasizes that proper implementation of construction safety laws and standards can prevent many accidents and calls for increased awareness of safety practices.
Unit 5-GE 6075 – PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN ENGINEERING ...Mohanumar S
This document discusses several global issues relevant to engineering practice, including responsibilities of engineers working for multinational corporations, environmental ethics, computer ethics, and weapons development. It notes that engineers require a wider perspective when working for multinationals due to differing cultural values between countries. Engineers have obligations to protect the environment from harm caused by technology. Computer ethics concerns address issues like privacy, hacking, and developing autonomous systems. Engineers also face challenges regarding their involvement in the weapons industry and defense work. The document outlines roles engineers may take on as managers, consultants, expert witnesses, advisors, and leaders.
This document discusses safety by design (SbD), which is the process of considering construction site safety and health during the design of construction projects. It notes that nearly 200,000 serious injuries and 1,000 deaths occur annually in US construction. SbD can help reduce accidents by addressing safety issues early in design. Barriers to SbD include fears of liability for designers and lack of safety expertise. However, tools like safety checklists and initiatives in various countries are helping promote SbD. Full implementation requires establishing a safety culture, enabling processes, and clients who value lifecycle safety.
This document discusses construction safety and engineering liability. It begins by outlining current practice in the US, where contractors are responsible for workplace safety but have insurance to cover accidents, while engineers warrant their design meets standards of care. The document then examines ethics in engineering per the ASCE code, which states safety should be a top priority. Several case studies of infrastructure projects with construction-related deaths are provided, such as at World Cup venues. The document concludes by discussing strategies for preventing accidents through safer design and the implications of ethics for an engineer's liability regarding construction safety.
This document discusses the challenges mechanical engineers face in balancing technical merit with business demands and costs. Engineers are pressured to make decisions based on economics rather than safety and design quality. However, compromising technical standards can lead to failures like the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. The document outlines solutions for engineers to oppose business decisions that undermine safety and ethics. It concludes that the engineering field remains viable despite conflicts if standards of conduct are upheld.
Unit 4-GE 6075 – PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN ENGINEERING ...Mohanumar S
This document discusses various topics related to safety, responsibilities, and rights in the workplace. It begins by defining safety and risk, and explaining concepts like risk assessment, risk-benefit analysis, and reducing risk. It also discusses responsibilities like respecting authority, engaging in collective bargaining, and maintaining confidentiality to avoid conflicts of interest. The document then covers rights in the workplace, including occupational health and safety rights, employee rights, and professional rights and ethics for engineers.
The management of health and safety of construction sites in accraAlexander Decker
The document summarizes a study on the management of health and safety on construction sites in Accra, Ghana. It identifies the major types of injuries on sites as falls, being struck by falling/moving objects, and collapses. Questionnaires found contractors often underprice health and safety measures in bids. As a result, adequate safety implementation is not achieved, negatively impacting project time delivery due to accidents. The research concludes contractors must properly cost health and safety to avoid effects on schedules. It recommends establishing safety inspectors, prioritizing health and safety in estimates, and further study on associated costs.
A study about the status of implementation on safety standards and legal requ...VISHNU VIJAYAN
This document discusses a study on the status of implementation of safety standards and legal requirements pertaining to construction safety in Kerala, India. It finds that despite advances in technology and safety legislation, accidents remain common in the construction industry. Through site visits, interviews, and document analysis of several construction projects, the study evaluated the implementation of important statutory safety requirements. It identified lack of compliance with safety standards and proper implementation of relevant laws as major causes of accidents. The document emphasizes that proper implementation of construction safety laws and standards can prevent many accidents and calls for increased awareness of safety practices.
Unit 5-GE 6075 – PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN ENGINEERING ...Mohanumar S
This document discusses several global issues relevant to engineering practice, including responsibilities of engineers working for multinational corporations, environmental ethics, computer ethics, and weapons development. It notes that engineers require a wider perspective when working for multinationals due to differing cultural values between countries. Engineers have obligations to protect the environment from harm caused by technology. Computer ethics concerns address issues like privacy, hacking, and developing autonomous systems. Engineers also face challenges regarding their involvement in the weapons industry and defense work. The document outlines roles engineers may take on as managers, consultants, expert witnesses, advisors, and leaders.
This document discusses safety by design (SbD), which is the process of considering construction site safety and health during the design of construction projects. It notes that nearly 200,000 serious injuries and 1,000 deaths occur annually in US construction. SbD can help reduce accidents by addressing safety issues early in design. Barriers to SbD include fears of liability for designers and lack of safety expertise. However, tools like safety checklists and initiatives in various countries are helping promote SbD. Full implementation requires establishing a safety culture, enabling processes, and clients who value lifecycle safety.
The occupational accidents are not standardized. Particularly, developing countries do not have
guided information on their accidents due to safety, health and environment which are lack of
proper systems. The number of accidents occurring in each project are not projected and
published in Nepal. Training, awarding for the workers is not done or not effective. Safety
engineers along with the workers need to aware to every project is not yet started. Project owner,
consultant and contractors must be responsible along with the construction safety Act which
must be promulgated as soon as possible to response the risk.
Engineers responsibility for safety and riskStudent
This document discusses engineers' responsibility for safety and risk. It defines safety as risks being judged acceptable. Risk is potential for unwanted consequences. There are various types of risks like voluntary vs involuntary. Engineers must ensure designs comply with laws, accepted practices, and explore safer alternatives. Designing for safety involves defining problems, generating solutions, analyzing pros and cons, testing, and selecting the best solution. Risk-benefit analysis is used to determine if a project's risks are acceptable given its benefits. Accidents can be procedural from not following procedures, from design flaws, or systemic in complex technologies.
This document discusses safety, risk, and ethics in engineering. It covers definitions of safety and risk, methods for assessing safety and risk, factors that influence risk acceptability, and uncertainties in product design. Safety is defined as acceptable risk, while risk is the probability and consequence of potential harm. Engineers must consider various uncertainties and test products thoroughly to minimize risk and ensure safety. Proper risk assessment and management require effective communication between experts and the public.
This document discusses safety, risk, and risk assessment in engineering. It defines safety and risk, and explains how they are related but different. Safety is when risks are known and judged as acceptable, while risk is the potential for something harmful to occur. There are various types of risks, including acceptable risks, voluntary risks, job-related risks, and public risks. Properly assessing safety and risk is important for engineers. It involves understanding uncertainties, testing for safety, and analyzing how safety, risk, and costs are interrelated for different types of products and projects. The overall goal of risk assessment is to evaluate hazards and minimize risks through added control measures to create a safer environment.
Safety and Risk – Assessment of Safety and Risk – Risk Benefit Analysis and Reducing Risk - Respect for Authority – Collective Bargaining – Confidentiality – Conflicts of Interest – Occupational Crime – Professional Rights – Employee Rights – Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) – Discrimination
The occupational accidents are not standardized to rating the risk factors for timely execution of infrastructures. Particularly, developing countries do not have guided information on their accidents due to safety, health and environment which are lack of proper systems. The number of accidents occurring in each infrastructures construction projects are not projected and published in Nepal. Training, awarding for the workers is not done or not effective. Safety engineers along with the workers need to aware to every construction project is not yet started. Project owner, consultant and contractors must be responsible along with the construction safety act which must be promulgated as soon as possible to response the Health, Safety and Environment risks. Safety engineering and prosperous Nepal are two side of same coin. By ignoring safety engineering to achieve prospers Nepal and happy Nepali is baseless dream .There would be lot of chances to inviting the risk factors which can lose much more.
This document discusses various global issues related to professional ethics in engineering, including multinational corporations, environmental ethics, and computer ethics. It covers topics such as the responsibilities of multinational corporations operating abroad, appropriate technology transfer, and issues related to waste disposal from industries, electronics, and plastics that harm the environment. Engineers are advised to consider sustainability and assess environmental impacts of technologies to protect the environment for future generations.
1. Engineering projects can be considered a form of social experimentation due to their innovative nature and potential unintended consequences. This results in uncertainty and risks for various stakeholders.
2. Engineers have a responsibility to monitor projects for risks, provide information to allow stakeholders to make informed decisions, and accept accountability for project outcomes.
3. Ethical codes can provide guidance for engineers and help balance responsibilities to stakeholders, but challenges remain with issues like diffusion of accountability in large organizations.
Unit 3-GE 6075 – PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN ENGINEERING ...Mohanumar S
- Engineering involves social experimentation through innovation that has uncertainties and risks for human life. It should be viewed as an experimental process that provides stakeholders an opportunity for informed consent.
- Problems can arise from a lack of a control group in experiments, corporate pressures like tight budgets and deadlines, difficulty identifying all affected stakeholders, and uncertainties that cannot be eliminated.
- Engineers have a responsibility as experimenters to protect human subjects, foresee potential impacts, monitor outcomes, and ensure stakeholders can make reasonable decisions based on sufficient information.
Unit-3 Professional Ethics in EngineeringNandakumar P
This document discusses safety and risk assessment in engineering. It defines safety and risk, and examines factors that influence risk perception such as voluntarism, control, and information. It also discusses techniques for assessing and reducing risk, including fault tree analysis, failure mode and effects analysis, and scenario analysis. The document concludes with case studies on the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl nuclear accidents and emphasizes the importance of disaster planning, training, and ensuring safe exits in product design.
Health and Safety - Responsibilities of employers’ and workers’ r for a safe ...anojan kanagarathnam
The document discusses health, safety, and welfare in the construction industry. It defines these terms and explains how construction work presents many potential hazards like falls, trench collapses, and injuries from lack of protective equipment. The document analyzes two case studies of construction sites that had issues like mold, improper chemical handling, broken equipment, and overwork. It identifies the immediate factors causing these hazards, like unsafe equipment, and the underlying management and job factors. The conclusion emphasizes that health, safety and welfare are crucial in construction due to the risks, and effective policies and risk assessment are needed to address hazards.
This document provides a review of construction defects, including their causes and types. It begins by defining construction defects and discussing their negative impacts on cost, duration, and resources. It then reviews literature on previous studies of defect causes, including factors related to design, construction management, materials, and human errors. The document categorizes defects as structural or non-structural. It provides examples of common structural defects like cracks and discusses non-structural defects. Recommendations are provided for minimizing defects during the design and construction phases, including quality management programs, design reviews, coordination between teams, and proper construction methods.
This document discusses occupational safety and health in engineering. It addresses topics like hazard identification and risk assessment, developing safety programs, controlling hazards, safety culture, and an engineer's ethical duty to protect public safety. Several figures show workplace examples and ask the reader to identify potential hazards, assess risks, and propose controls. The document emphasizes systematic analysis of work activities and environments to safeguard worker health and prevent accidents.
Unit 2-GE 6075 – PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN ENGINEERING ...Mohanumar S
This document discusses various aspects of engineering ethics. It begins by defining engineering ethics as the study of related moral questions about people and organizations involved in technical activities. It then discusses the variety of moral issues engineers may face, including safety-related disasters. It also covers types of ethical inquiries, moral dilemmas, moral autonomy, and theories related to developing moral reasoning skills. The document outlines different perspectives on professional roles and responsibilities. Finally, it discusses some key theories for determining right action, including utilitarianism, rights ethics, and duty-based ethics.
IRJET- A Study on Labour Safety in Construction IndustryIRJET Journal
This document summarizes a study on labor safety in the construction industry. It discusses how construction is one of the most hazardous industries and employs many skilled and unskilled laborers. While safety laws exist, accidents continue to occur frequently on construction sites due to lack of enforcement and management commitment to safety. The study involved distributing questionnaires to construction workers in Coimbatore, India to examine total work hours, shifts, worker demographics, accident rates and types of injuries on small and large construction sites. The results found that most accidents were due to lack of training, unsafe equipment/machinery, and not using protective equipment. Falls and injuries were the most common types of accidents.
This document discusses engineering as social experimentation and the responsibilities of engineers. It describes how engineering projects involve iterative design, testing and redesign similar to experiments. However, engineering projects differ from experiments in that they have less experimental control, involve humans, and may not gain significant new knowledge. As experimenters, engineers must have a commitment to moral values, be aware of project impacts, be accountable, and consider the perspectives of all stakeholders. They are responsible for identifying risks and informing the public of project details and outcomes.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for both physical and mental health. It notes that regular exercise can reduce the risk of diseases like heart disease and diabetes, improve mood, and reduce feelings of stress and anxiety. The document recommends that adults get at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise or 75 minutes of vigorous exercise per week to gain these benefits.
A Guide to SlideShare Analytics - Excerpts from Hubspot's Step by Step Guide ...SlideShare
This document provides a summary of the analytics available through SlideShare for monitoring the performance of presentations. It outlines the key metrics that can be viewed such as total views, actions, and traffic sources over different time periods. The analytics help users identify topics and presentation styles that resonate best with audiences based on view and engagement numbers. They also allow users to calculate important metrics like view-to-contact conversion rates. Regular review of the analytics insights helps users improve future presentations and marketing strategies.
Each month, join us as we highlight and discuss hot topics ranging from the future of higher education to wearable technology, best productivity hacks and secrets to hiring top talent. Upload your SlideShares, and share your expertise with the world!
The occupational accidents are not standardized. Particularly, developing countries do not have
guided information on their accidents due to safety, health and environment which are lack of
proper systems. The number of accidents occurring in each project are not projected and
published in Nepal. Training, awarding for the workers is not done or not effective. Safety
engineers along with the workers need to aware to every project is not yet started. Project owner,
consultant and contractors must be responsible along with the construction safety Act which
must be promulgated as soon as possible to response the risk.
Engineers responsibility for safety and riskStudent
This document discusses engineers' responsibility for safety and risk. It defines safety as risks being judged acceptable. Risk is potential for unwanted consequences. There are various types of risks like voluntary vs involuntary. Engineers must ensure designs comply with laws, accepted practices, and explore safer alternatives. Designing for safety involves defining problems, generating solutions, analyzing pros and cons, testing, and selecting the best solution. Risk-benefit analysis is used to determine if a project's risks are acceptable given its benefits. Accidents can be procedural from not following procedures, from design flaws, or systemic in complex technologies.
This document discusses safety, risk, and ethics in engineering. It covers definitions of safety and risk, methods for assessing safety and risk, factors that influence risk acceptability, and uncertainties in product design. Safety is defined as acceptable risk, while risk is the probability and consequence of potential harm. Engineers must consider various uncertainties and test products thoroughly to minimize risk and ensure safety. Proper risk assessment and management require effective communication between experts and the public.
This document discusses safety, risk, and risk assessment in engineering. It defines safety and risk, and explains how they are related but different. Safety is when risks are known and judged as acceptable, while risk is the potential for something harmful to occur. There are various types of risks, including acceptable risks, voluntary risks, job-related risks, and public risks. Properly assessing safety and risk is important for engineers. It involves understanding uncertainties, testing for safety, and analyzing how safety, risk, and costs are interrelated for different types of products and projects. The overall goal of risk assessment is to evaluate hazards and minimize risks through added control measures to create a safer environment.
Safety and Risk – Assessment of Safety and Risk – Risk Benefit Analysis and Reducing Risk - Respect for Authority – Collective Bargaining – Confidentiality – Conflicts of Interest – Occupational Crime – Professional Rights – Employee Rights – Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) – Discrimination
The occupational accidents are not standardized to rating the risk factors for timely execution of infrastructures. Particularly, developing countries do not have guided information on their accidents due to safety, health and environment which are lack of proper systems. The number of accidents occurring in each infrastructures construction projects are not projected and published in Nepal. Training, awarding for the workers is not done or not effective. Safety engineers along with the workers need to aware to every construction project is not yet started. Project owner, consultant and contractors must be responsible along with the construction safety act which must be promulgated as soon as possible to response the Health, Safety and Environment risks. Safety engineering and prosperous Nepal are two side of same coin. By ignoring safety engineering to achieve prospers Nepal and happy Nepali is baseless dream .There would be lot of chances to inviting the risk factors which can lose much more.
This document discusses various global issues related to professional ethics in engineering, including multinational corporations, environmental ethics, and computer ethics. It covers topics such as the responsibilities of multinational corporations operating abroad, appropriate technology transfer, and issues related to waste disposal from industries, electronics, and plastics that harm the environment. Engineers are advised to consider sustainability and assess environmental impacts of technologies to protect the environment for future generations.
1. Engineering projects can be considered a form of social experimentation due to their innovative nature and potential unintended consequences. This results in uncertainty and risks for various stakeholders.
2. Engineers have a responsibility to monitor projects for risks, provide information to allow stakeholders to make informed decisions, and accept accountability for project outcomes.
3. Ethical codes can provide guidance for engineers and help balance responsibilities to stakeholders, but challenges remain with issues like diffusion of accountability in large organizations.
Unit 3-GE 6075 – PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN ENGINEERING ...Mohanumar S
- Engineering involves social experimentation through innovation that has uncertainties and risks for human life. It should be viewed as an experimental process that provides stakeholders an opportunity for informed consent.
- Problems can arise from a lack of a control group in experiments, corporate pressures like tight budgets and deadlines, difficulty identifying all affected stakeholders, and uncertainties that cannot be eliminated.
- Engineers have a responsibility as experimenters to protect human subjects, foresee potential impacts, monitor outcomes, and ensure stakeholders can make reasonable decisions based on sufficient information.
Unit-3 Professional Ethics in EngineeringNandakumar P
This document discusses safety and risk assessment in engineering. It defines safety and risk, and examines factors that influence risk perception such as voluntarism, control, and information. It also discusses techniques for assessing and reducing risk, including fault tree analysis, failure mode and effects analysis, and scenario analysis. The document concludes with case studies on the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl nuclear accidents and emphasizes the importance of disaster planning, training, and ensuring safe exits in product design.
Health and Safety - Responsibilities of employers’ and workers’ r for a safe ...anojan kanagarathnam
The document discusses health, safety, and welfare in the construction industry. It defines these terms and explains how construction work presents many potential hazards like falls, trench collapses, and injuries from lack of protective equipment. The document analyzes two case studies of construction sites that had issues like mold, improper chemical handling, broken equipment, and overwork. It identifies the immediate factors causing these hazards, like unsafe equipment, and the underlying management and job factors. The conclusion emphasizes that health, safety and welfare are crucial in construction due to the risks, and effective policies and risk assessment are needed to address hazards.
This document provides a review of construction defects, including their causes and types. It begins by defining construction defects and discussing their negative impacts on cost, duration, and resources. It then reviews literature on previous studies of defect causes, including factors related to design, construction management, materials, and human errors. The document categorizes defects as structural or non-structural. It provides examples of common structural defects like cracks and discusses non-structural defects. Recommendations are provided for minimizing defects during the design and construction phases, including quality management programs, design reviews, coordination between teams, and proper construction methods.
This document discusses occupational safety and health in engineering. It addresses topics like hazard identification and risk assessment, developing safety programs, controlling hazards, safety culture, and an engineer's ethical duty to protect public safety. Several figures show workplace examples and ask the reader to identify potential hazards, assess risks, and propose controls. The document emphasizes systematic analysis of work activities and environments to safeguard worker health and prevent accidents.
Unit 2-GE 6075 – PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN ENGINEERING ...Mohanumar S
This document discusses various aspects of engineering ethics. It begins by defining engineering ethics as the study of related moral questions about people and organizations involved in technical activities. It then discusses the variety of moral issues engineers may face, including safety-related disasters. It also covers types of ethical inquiries, moral dilemmas, moral autonomy, and theories related to developing moral reasoning skills. The document outlines different perspectives on professional roles and responsibilities. Finally, it discusses some key theories for determining right action, including utilitarianism, rights ethics, and duty-based ethics.
IRJET- A Study on Labour Safety in Construction IndustryIRJET Journal
This document summarizes a study on labor safety in the construction industry. It discusses how construction is one of the most hazardous industries and employs many skilled and unskilled laborers. While safety laws exist, accidents continue to occur frequently on construction sites due to lack of enforcement and management commitment to safety. The study involved distributing questionnaires to construction workers in Coimbatore, India to examine total work hours, shifts, worker demographics, accident rates and types of injuries on small and large construction sites. The results found that most accidents were due to lack of training, unsafe equipment/machinery, and not using protective equipment. Falls and injuries were the most common types of accidents.
This document discusses engineering as social experimentation and the responsibilities of engineers. It describes how engineering projects involve iterative design, testing and redesign similar to experiments. However, engineering projects differ from experiments in that they have less experimental control, involve humans, and may not gain significant new knowledge. As experimenters, engineers must have a commitment to moral values, be aware of project impacts, be accountable, and consider the perspectives of all stakeholders. They are responsible for identifying risks and informing the public of project details and outcomes.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for both physical and mental health. It notes that regular exercise can reduce the risk of diseases like heart disease and diabetes, improve mood, and reduce feelings of stress and anxiety. The document recommends that adults get at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise or 75 minutes of vigorous exercise per week to gain these benefits.
A Guide to SlideShare Analytics - Excerpts from Hubspot's Step by Step Guide ...SlideShare
This document provides a summary of the analytics available through SlideShare for monitoring the performance of presentations. It outlines the key metrics that can be viewed such as total views, actions, and traffic sources over different time periods. The analytics help users identify topics and presentation styles that resonate best with audiences based on view and engagement numbers. They also allow users to calculate important metrics like view-to-contact conversion rates. Regular review of the analytics insights helps users improve future presentations and marketing strategies.
Each month, join us as we highlight and discuss hot topics ranging from the future of higher education to wearable technology, best productivity hacks and secrets to hiring top talent. Upload your SlideShares, and share your expertise with the world!
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SlideShare is a global platform for sharing presentations, infographics, videos and documents. It has over 18 million pieces of professional content uploaded by experts like Eric Schmidt and Guy Kawasaki. The document provides tips for setting up an account on SlideShare, uploading content, optimizing it for searchability, and sharing it on social media to build an audience and reputation as a subject matter expert.
A Consultant’s Safety Liabilities: A Guide for Working on Multiemployer Sites
By Vladimir Ivensky
Article in Professional Safety Journal, January 2016
Engineering, scientific and architectural consulting companies involved at multiemployer field projects may have safety liabilities that extend beyond protection of their own employees. These liabilities originate in a consulting company’s regulatory or contractual duty of safety care to subcontractors or other project parties; in consulting company employees’ actions in the field that can be interpreted as control over other project parties; and in deficient design or specifications produced by a consulting company. Recognizing, evaluating and controlling such exposures are important for establishing effective risk mitigative strategies and for the ultimate success of any multiemployer field project.
Chapter-3-Responsibility of Engineering.pdfLouie Serrano
Individual engineers have a moral obligation to act with honesty, fairness and due care to protect public safety. They are responsible both for meeting engineering standards and legal standards of care in their work. Responsibility can take two forms - obligation to act with care, and blame for failures that result from negligence. While standards provide guidelines, engineers must also exercise judgment to address unexpected problems. When failures do occur, responsibility is determined by analyzing physical causes, organizational factors, and the roles and actions of individuals involved. Groups and corporations can also bear responsibility through their decision-making processes and policies.
This document discusses quality control and safety during construction projects. It emphasizes that quality and safety considerations are important for minimizing costs from defects, failures, accidents and injuries. Quality control involves ensuring work conforms to the original design specifications. Total quality control aims for zero defects through measures like design reviews, training, worker involvement and maintaining equipment. Statistical methods are important for quality control because testing entire projects is infeasible, so samples are used and interpreted statistically to determine if work meets standards.
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Design professional liability insurance provides coverage for negligence, errors, and omissions claims that may arise from rendering professional services. Common claims triggers include allegations of defective design, errors and omissions, and negligent preparation of plans. Underwriting factors reviewed by insurers include professional discipline, services performed, income, project values, and claims history. Risk management practices such as contractual reviews, proof of insurance requirements, and design documentation can help minimize professional liability.
chapter 7 Health and Safety in Construction Industry lecture 8.pptssuserb4074f
The document discusses health and safety in the construction industry. It notes that construction is associated with a high number of accidents and diseases despite being labor-intensive. The top causes of construction site accidents are falls, being struck by objects, overexertion from lifting, machinery, electricity, transport, and fires/explosions. The document recommends education, skills training, engineering controls, protective equipment, and enforcement of regulations to prevent accidents in the industry.
This document discusses engineering as a social experiment and the social responsibilities of engineers. It covers several key points:
1) Engineering can be viewed as an experimental process conducted on a social scale involving human subjects, as the products of technology present potential dangers.
2) As engineering has a direct impact on quality of life, the services provided by engineers must be dedicated to protecting public safety, health and welfare.
3) Codes of professional ethics outline how engineers should conduct themselves and are central to understanding a profession and its social contract with society. This social contract grants engineers autonomy in exchange for prioritizing public well-being.
IRJET- Quantifay the Different Constraints for Delays in Infrastructure C...IRJET Journal
This document discusses quantifying constraints that can cause delays in infrastructure construction projects. It begins by introducing the objectives of the study, which are to identify constraints in the construction working environment, better understand them at the outset of projects to improve performance, and recommend corrective measures. The document then identifies and defines five main categories of constraints: economic, legal, environmental, technical, and social. It provides examples of constraints that fall under each category and how they can impact construction project schedules and progress. The goal of the study is to successfully reduce constraints in order to decrease unnecessary costs and time losses from inadequate planning.
The document discusses the challenges that designers face in meeting their health and safety duties under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations. Specifically, designers must effectively communicate significant risks identified in their design to contractors and others using the design. However, duty-holders are often presented with excessive generic documentation that provides little useful risk information. The document outlines different types of designers - from "enlightened" designers who clearly communicate specific risks to "give it a go" designers who provide excessive generic information. It emphasizes the need for designers to focus on communicating meaningful risk information through clear drawings and notes. The challenges designers face are discussed, as well as steps clients can take to help designers meet their duties, such as competency assessments.
The construction industry involves risky and unhealthy operations which result in many human tragedies, to lose
enthusiasm of workers, disrupt construction, delay progress, and adversely affect cost, productivity, and reputation. The
complex nature of construction and hazards it have occupational health and safety in construction work should design table and
continue throughout the construction phases until the safety and health of every end users is ensured. Safety is a major concern
for construction companies, as it is a source of substantial direct and indirect costs. In some countries, the rate of total workplace
injuries from construction activities can be as high as at least 50%. This is undoubtedly a serious matter warranting urgent
attention. This paper reviewed that the safety problems at construction site with fetal injuries caused by it with help of different
graphical data of agencies .It gives detailed information regarding about the injuries type and physical loss of human from this.
This study also revealed that the importance of safety in construction should pay more attention as the injuries loss the human
life and also delay in completion of project
Amelioration of safety management in infrastructure projectsIJERA Editor
Accidents are a major public health concern, resulting in an estimated 1.2 million deaths and 50 million injuries
worldwide each year specifically, the relationships between drivers' characteristics and road accidents are not
fully understood. Many factors are involved in the accident occurrence at construction site. Some important
elements that create a significant portion of accidents include: safety management error, poor training programs,
human element, act of god, outdated procedure and no clear monitoring policy. Although some of these items
are inevitable, but the occurrence of the largest part can be prevented. Therefore, for ameliorating the safety in a
project each of these items should be analyzed and a practical approach introduced. In general, near miss,
incident and accident are three dependent levels that mainly lead to injury. Risk and hazard are allocated in first
level which means near miss, therefore, no on-time identification of hazard and risk causes to create incident
and preventing accident in incident stage is unavoidable.
The construction industry is slowly adopting new technologies like BIM, drones, wearable tech, and laser scanning, which each provide opportunities but also risks that require careful consideration. While technologies can improve productivity and safety, their use may introduce liability issues regarding responsibility, privacy, and health data. Adopting technologies gradually allows the industry to balance risks and rewards, though the need for improved productivity is increasing pressure to adopt more quickly.
The document provides an overview of safety and health regulations in Vietnam, including:
- An outline of key safety/health regulations such as the Labour Code and relevant decrees, circulars, and standards.
- Rights and obligations of employers and workers regarding safety and health. Responsibilities of project owners, PMUs, consultants, and contractors are also outlined.
- General issues on safety management systems, safety education, protective equipment, walkways, signage, employment requirements, and signals.
BLDG1008 Construction Work Safety.docxstudywriters
1) ABC Organization is a construction company that had a workplace accident where a worker fell from the second floor and was seriously injured due to a lack of proper safety protocols and only wearing a uniform.
2) Stakeholders such as project managers, contractors, and supervisors are responsible for ensuring safety policies are followed and workers are trained, but ABC Organization failed to enforce these responsibilities which led to the accident.
3) To prevent future accidents, ABC Organization should clearly define stakeholder roles and responsibilities to oversee safety compliance, provide adequate safety training to all workers, and enforce accountability for following safety procedures.
This course aims to teach design professionals how to recognize and eliminate construction hazards through permanent design features. It emphasizes identifying hazards during design, assessing their risks, and applying a hierarchy of controls to mitigate them. Specific topics will include fall protection, ladders, scaffolding, confined spaces, and noise exposure. Design solutions presented include parapets, window sills, skylights, roof anchors, floor openings, and reducing elevated work. The goal is to proactively improve safety through design rather than relying on protective equipment and procedures during construction.
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RISK MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR BUILDING A BRIDGE
MPM344 Project Risk Management
Risk Management Plan
Charles Williams
12/03/18
Table of Contents
RISK MANAGEMENT JUSTIFICATION 3
PROJECT RISK IDENTIFICATION 4
PROJECT RISK ANALYSES 6
PROJECT RISK RESPONSE STRATEGY 11
PROJECT RISK MONITORING 14
PROJECT RISK COMMUNICATIONS PLAN 15
References 16
RISK MANAGEMENT JUSTIFICATION
With a large concern on the occurrence of the accidents due to the weaknesses in building it is important to conduct and write this risk management plan (Gerardus, 2018). On average, various accidents occur due to same failures in building or the construction. It is hence important to outline such failures occurring due to the ignorance of these subcontractors and contractors. The contractors and all persons in the construction of a public infrastructure needs to take some caution to save the lives of the people as well save their properties. The procedure hence needs to be outlined in developing options and actions to enhance the proper opportunities to evade any threats to the objectives.
In this project mitigation and contingency. This means that we try to eliminate or reduce any probability of occurrence of the peril. For contingency, we can try the best to find any other solutions to the peril (Gerardus, 2018). For my risk management plan the method I have chosen will be the waterfall risk management method. The waterfall risk management is most effective in traditional projects such as construction and other examples of more common engineering projects due to the uncomplicated nature of these projects.
PROJECT RISK IDENTIFICATION
There are several risks associated with the building of a bridge. From relatively small issues like severe weather, missed payments, or late deliveries to big problems like accidents on job sites or structural failures, people who do inspection, maintenance, and construction work on bridges face an extraordinary number of risks every day. Most contractors experience inconsistent cash flow at one time or another. Cash flow issues are not usually the result of ineffective money management. Instead, they’re caused by past due payments or not getting paid in full for work that’s been completed. This issue often leads to bankruptcy or the complete failure of the business. Workplace safety should be the number-one priority on every bridge construction site. Inadequate safety practices can lead to serious injuries or even death. Accidents on a job site can cause traffic and construction delays, along with added time to investigate and resolve issues, work stoppages, penalties and fees, increased insurance rates, low morale on the job, and significant harm to a contractor’s reputation. Every contractor tries to avoid it, but it inevitably happens: Work done on a bridge site doesn’t meet regulatory standards or contractual specifications. It costs time and money to.
The document discusses health and safety issues at a UK construction firm called Mainway Construction Services. The safety officer, Mathew Jones, identified several risks and breaches during an inspection, including unprotected excavations and lack of welfare amenities. Several UK health and safety legislations apply to the construction industry, such as those covering working at heights, lifting equipment, asbestos, and noise/vibration control. To address the issues, the report recommends starting safety training programs, minimizing risks through audits, and improving site security controls.
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1) ABC Organization, a construction company in Australia, is facing legal action after a worker fell from the second floor of a building and was seriously injured due to a lack of proper safety protocols.
2) The responsibilities of stakeholders such as ensuring safety protocols are followed and workers are trained were not fulfilled, contributing to the accident.
3) The case analysis recommends ABC Organization focus on stakeholder responsibilities and provide all workers with proper safety training on hazards and equipment usage to prevent future accidents.
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This study aimed to assess the safety and health of contractors in Zamboanga Del Norte, Philip-pines, in terms of workforce, workplace, and work implements. It also aimed to evaluate compliance with occupational health and safety standards regarding occupational safety and health training, a health and safety plan, civil works activities, and heavy equipment operations. It combined quantitative research with a self-created questionnaire that explains and forecasts concepts that can be applied to other people and locations and objectively measures the variable(s) of interest, selected, constructed, and standardized with validity and reliability in mind. The findings revealed that respondents only partially adhered to construction safety and health in personnel, workplace, and work equipment. Occupational health and safety criteria were partially met in occupational safety and health training, health and safety plans, civil works activities, and heavy equipment operations. The Level of Compliance for construction safety and health was also partially met. As a result, it is advised that construction companies will adopt the revised construction safety model.
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Mead Award Paper
1. Construction Injuries or Death – What are the Engineer’s Responsibilities?
Chris Unzicker
University of Evansville
Introduction
Civil Engineering is a profession encompassing multiple responsibilities and ethical
obligations, chief among them is a commitment to design structures that are safe, ensuring the
protection of human life. The range of responsibilities civil engineers must bear is often
questioned, however. The safety and serviceability of the end product is usually viewed as the
design engineer’s responsibility while the responsibility for safety during the construction phase
is typically affixed to the contractor. This line of reasoning assigns ultimate liability to the
contractor during construction of the engineer’s design. But civil engineers have an ethical and,
in the view of some courts, a legal obligation to help prevent construction accidents. Prudence
dictates that only when both the engineer and the contractor collectively abide by their codes of
ethics and implement reliable safety policies can injuries and fatalities be prevented during
construction.
According to the ASCE Code of Ethics (2014) “Engineers shall hold paramount the
safety, health and welfare of the public…Engineers shall recognize that the lives, safety, health
and welfare of the general public are dependent upon engineering judgments, decisions and
practices incorporated into structures, machines, products, processes and devices.” Civil
engineers are held to these ethical standards; therefore it is their professional obligation to
recognize safety concerns connected with the construction of their design. Understanding the
risks associated with construction of the built environment is fundamental in “hold[ing]
paramount the safety health and welfare of the public (2014).” This paper will seek to identify
2. how engineers can perform their duties, fulfill their ethical obligation to protect public safety,
and limit their liability for accidents that may occur during construction of their design.
Responsibility for Construction Safety
The construction industry is notorious for the amount of workplace injuries and fatalities
that occur within the trade. According to the United States Department of Labor and
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) statistics “…of 3929 worker fatalities in
private industry in calendar year 2013, 796 or 20.3% were in construction―that is, one in five
worker deaths last year were in construction” (Bureau, 2014). The prevalence of safety problems
within the industry has garnered attention from the general public, and over the past decade
numerous court decisions and academic studies have sought to identify the liable parties in
construction failures and accidents. Many times these verdicts contradict themselves and
produce ambiguous interpretations of responsibility
Over the years the roles and responsibilities of project participants have changed.
“Historically, the architect/engineer functioned as a master builder, conceptualizing the building,
committing his or her dreams to paper in the form of drawings, acting as an autocrat on the
jobsite, stopping the work entirely when it contradicted his or her intentions, and rejecting work
that he or she deemed to be unsuitable” (McElroy, 2006). Litigation has altered the practice of
engineers, however. It is normal practice today for engineers to step back during the construction
process and observe actions rather than supervise. This limits engineers’ ability to stop
construction if they see safety issues, but protects them against claims that may arise from
injuries that occur on the jobsite.
3. The reluctance of engineers to be directly involved in construction activities is largely in
response to unfavorable court decisions. In Coyne v. Robert H. Anderson & Associates, Inc. the
defendant engineer was found guilty of wrong-doing despite the “court acknowledg[ing] that the
engineer’s contract excluded safety responsibilities and that the engineer did not really control
the work, had no right to stop the work, and was not in a position to take any meaningful steps to
improve safety conditions” (Gambatese, 1998). This is troubling because it implies that
engineers under normal circumstances and specific contractual obligations to the contrary, may
be deemed responsible for safety during construction of their design. Other cases, such as Clyde
E. Williams & Associates, Inc. v. Boatman and Phillips v. United Engineers & Constructors,
Inc., also assigned responsibility for worker safety to the designer. These courts found the
defendant engineers liable because at some point during construction, they exceeded their normal
scope of duty and directed construction work to some extent. By doing this, the engineer
assumed partial responsibility for the construction efforts and therefore the safety of the workers
in relation to that portion of work which they supervised (1998).
Due to unfavorable judicial rulings, it is understandable why engineers have become
increasingly wary of their role in the construction process. Although the ASCE Code of Ethics
(2014) states, “engineers shall hold paramount the safety, health and welfare of the public,”
distinguishing the designer’s role in safety versus that of the contractor has become obscured,
forcing engineers to protect themselves against liability issues through explicit contractual
obligations or removing themselves from the process completely. This has led to an increasing
‘us versus them’ mentality between engineers and contractors on construction projects. Which
leads to the question, how can engineers uphold their obligations to protect the safety and well-
4. being of the public without interjecting themselves into situations where they may be held liable
for accidents in the workplace? The answer lies in designing for safety.
Prevention Through Design
According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) (2014)
“One of the best ways to prevent and control occupational injuries, illnesses, and fatalities is to
"design out" or minimize hazards and risks.” NIOSH is leading a national initiative which they
call Prevention through Design (PtD). This program addresses the safety issues that result from
construction and attempts to prevent or reduce them by anticipating hazards that may occur as a
result of the design (2014). This forces designers to steer away from the “I design it, they build
it” mindset, and allows them to explicitly consider construction safety in the design of a project
and make decisions based on the inherent safety risk of the construction workers.
According to research by Michael Behm (2005), 42% of 224 construction related
fatalities in the United States from 1990-2003 were related to preventable issues regarding the
construction safety concept; additionally 22% of 226 injuries that occurred from 2000-2002
during construction in Oregon, Washington, and California were related to avoidable safety
issues. Given that the construction industry already accounts for 20 % percent of injuries and
fatalities among private industries, this demonstrates a substantial opportunity for engineers to
have an impact on construction safety. Nevertheless, potential barriers threaten to slow the PtD
movement.
Designers fear that implementing PtD could create an obligation for engineers to be
directly involved in construction and possibly make them the focus of undeserved liability for
worker safety (Toole, 2014). This relates back to the rationale used by architects and engineers to
5. remove themselves from the construction process; if designers start incorporating safety into
their design, it would appear that they would assume more responsibility for safety during
construction. But this is not true. By enacting PtD, engineers are taking a proactive role in
construction safety before construction begins rather than a reactive role during construction.
Additionally, this does not mean the engineer is endorsing future legislation mandating engineers
and architects design for construction safety or recommending that engineers be held partially
responsible for construction accidents. PtD simply demonstrates the engineer’s willingness to
identify hazards that may occur during construction and attempt to eliminate or minimize the
risks associated with these hazards (2014).
Other considerations that are obstacles to employing PtD include the increase in direct
and overhead costs engineers must assume, and the engineer’s lack of safety expertise. This is
essentially what transpired when the energy industry was required to comply with strict
enforcement of environmental laws. Large energy companies were forced to implement green
technologies without previous knowledge of the practice, and many suffered financially to make
these changes. However, as implementing new environmental controls became more collective,
tax breaks were implemented, green technologies became less expensive, and the industry
benefitted from the program. PtD could provide beneficial incentives to the construction industry
in the long run, just as environmental controls provided them to the energy industry. Among the
advantages of employing PtD; fewer injuries/fatalities, increased productivity, fewer delays due
to accidents, and collaboration between the contractor and designer (Toole, 2014). Furthermore,
the decreased number of accidents could improve the reputation of an industry that is
synonymous with dangerous working conditions.
6. Conclusion
It is impossible to eliminate all risks that are associated with construction, but there is a
very important role for engineers to play in reducing construction hazards. The United
Kingdom’s Consultants for Health and Safety (2011) provide a description of this role:
“Designers are in a unique position to reduce the risks that arise during construction work, and
have a key role to play. Designs develop from initial concepts through to a detailed specification,
often involving different teams and people at various stages. At each stage, designers from all
disciplines can make a significant contribution by identifying and eliminating hazards, and
reducing likely risks from hazards where elimination is not possible.”
Engineers, architects, and contractors cannot continue to adopt an “us versus them”
mentality to limit liability for construction safety. Court decisions have established precedents
that engineers can be held responsible for construction accidents and fatalities. Prevention
through Design has the ability to address many of the problems associated with construction
safety. Contractors and engineers are brought together to interact and collectively develop safe
construction solutions. By incorporating safety into the design of the structure, engineers take a
proactive approach to construction safety. Most importantly, prevention through design allows
engineers to meet the ethical expectations of their profession as outlined in the ASCE Code of
Ethics and provide safely constructed, reliable structures for the public.
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