Preparation of safety plan and it's monitoring in construction at site. Common elements included in a project safety plan Gather information for the project safety plan

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Dr. Revanuru Subramanyam
Professor (Associate), Department of Civil Engineering
Papua New Guinea University of Technology
2023
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Preparation of safety plan and
monitoring in construction at site

2. Safety Plan for Construction Site
❑A construction safety plan is a written
document used to protect workers on job
sites.
❑This plan should outline the various rules,
procedures, and policies designed to: Put
measures in place to prevent accidents.
❑Outline response plan following accidents or
other safety issues.
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3. Common elements included in a
project safety plan
➢ Safety policy or goal statements
➢ Company safety standards
➢ A description of the project scope, the scope of
work, and specific hazards
➢ A list of responsible persons
➢ Safety and emergency contact information
➢ A description of site conditions, location, site-
specific standards, and the general rules of job site
➢ Hazard identification, controls, and safe practices
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4. Common elements included in a
project safety plan
➢ Crisis and emergency preparedness plan
(evacuation, rescue, and medical emergency plans)
➢ Supplemental hazard control plans (hazards in
various work environments including
commissioning, confined spaces, demolition,
electrical, energy isolation, environment,
excavation, falls, flammables, and lifting)
➢ Materials/chemicals in use and their specific
hazards
➢ Required certifications and training related to safety
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5. Value of a project safety plan
❖The value of a project safety plan includes but
is not limited to:
➢Ensuring everyone is well-informed:
➢Being able to make decisions quickly:
➢Ensuring personnel safety:
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6. Ensuring everyone is well-informed:
❖When everyone understands the safety protocols
in construction, there is less room for confusion
or error.
❖A project safety plan helps understand and
determine the potential hazards in various
construction activities and makes safety
guidelines explicitly clear before the work begins.
❖As an integral part of workers’ contracts, a
project safety plan can ensure the construction
work moves as swiftly, smoothly, and safely as
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7. Being able to make decisions quickly:
❖A project safety plan lets project owners and
contractors make quick and early decisions on
mitigating safety hazards and scope changes
that are discovered during the ongoing work.
❖The adoption and strict enforcement of safety
practices protects the health and safety of
workers and avoids unnecessary project delays
arising from accidents or injuries.
❖This translates to timely project completion with
improved productivity and competitiveness.
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8. Ensuring personnel safety:
❖Accidents at construction sites occur due to
several reasons, including a lack of safety
management practices, failure in identifying
potential hazards, usage of improper equipment
or tools, limited or no training, complacency, and
a general disregard for construction job safety.
❖A project safety plan starts with upper
management and flows to the construction crew,
educating them on safety training, emergency
procedures, and the usage of personal protective
equipment (PPE) to reduce injuries.
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9. Project safety plan execution
❖Inspecting and analyzing a project worksite:
❖Ensuring good communication across all
levels:
❖Training employees:
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10. Inspecting and analyzing a project worksite:
❖The inspection of a project worksite starts during
the design and engineering phase to analyze
design risks and the associated hazards and
ensure the site meets standards and codes.
❖Design finalization takes into account the safety
processes to be implemented on the site to
decrease the risks of potentially hazardous work.
❖Hazard identification and correction continue
further with an on-site inspection and job safety
analysis (JSA) to develop safe work plans.
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11. Ensuring good communication across all levels:
❖Information on safety risks at the construction site
should be communicated across all levels of a
project team.
❖The early involvement of key project stakeholders
helps allocate resources to protect the construction
crew and promote better communication regarding
safety plans.
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12. Training employees:
❖The advantages of a project safety plan can be
best realized through regular employee training to
ensure ongoing safety risk evaluations, identify
workplace hazards, and develop mitigation
strategies.
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13. Gather information for the project safety plan
▪ A well-designed project safety plan for
construction requires gathering all the site-specific
details to address potential hazards with
appropriate safety measures.
▪ Some of the primary elements that are
instrumental in putting together a project safety
plan include:
✓ A description of site condition and location:
✓ Site access requirements:
✓ A description of the project scope:
✓ Hazard Identification:
✓ Hazard controls and safe practices:
✓ Communication methods:
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A description of site condition and location:
A project safety plan needs to consider the site-specific
conditions and geographical location of the project, along with
information on any usual site conditions, the location of
scaffolding, equipment, and other activities, and neighboring
structures.
Site access requirements:
This involves information such as security clearance measures,
badging requirements, vehicle travel and delivery routes to the
construction site, dedicated building entry points and stairwells,
and worker movements off-site, including in break areas and
parking locations.
A description of the project scope: The project scope helps
assess the risks of the associated construction work across all
stages of the project, from concept and designing through
construction. Once risks are identified, scope items that carry
highly hazardous risks need to be further reviewed.

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Hazard Identification:
For construction, it is imperative to fully understand the project scope
to identify where potentially hazardous activities may arise
throughout all project phases. With proper identification of high-risk
activities, mitigation methods can be developed, communicated, and
implemented.
Hazard controls and safe practices:
Hazard controls are aimed at eliminating or minimizing the impact of
potential hazards through safe practices. The hierarchy of controlling
hazards includes elimination, substitution, engineering controls,
administrative controls, and personal protective equipment.
Communication methods:
Effective ongoing communication between corporate management,
the engineering and construction teams, and the on-site construction
crew is the key to gathering information on developing a robust
project safety plan Communication methods can include but are not
limited to kick-off meetings, morning tailgate meetings, behavior-
based safety programs, management of change, etc.

16. Create an effective project safety plan?
❑Behavior-based safety assessments:
✓ To ensure that our safety culture is mirrored by
employees across all levels of the organization,
behavior-based safety assessments are done to
routinely review employee performance.
✓ The work behaviors of employees are watched by
coworkers, inspectors, or observers to check
whether activities are performed safely without
risks.
✓ The behavior-based safety assessments are critical
in identifying risks and developing mitigation
strategies through feedback and positive
reinforcement.
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17. Job Safety Analysis:
• A job safety analysis (JSA) is the second line
of defense that is used by on-site workers to
examine various construction tasks and
identify the associated potential health and
safety hazards.
• By breaking down a construction job into a
series of steps, construction workers are
better equipped to identify potential hazards
and determine preventive measures to
overcome them.
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18. Extra Hazardous Work (EHW) program:
❑The EHW program is a new approach to
evaluating and controlling job-specific
hazards through safe work plans approved
by corporate management and
communicated to the construction crew
before work begins.
❑In the event EHW is identified on-site, work
shall not proceed until a developed safe work
plan is created and approved.
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