...States Deparment of Labor, falls are the #1 cause of deaths on a construction site. In 2009, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that 816 construction workers died on the job, with 34 percent of those fatalities resulting from falls. It is the employer’s responsibility to ensure that their construction site and employees follow the strict OSHA guidelines OSHA. Due to the always changing environment of a construction site it has become more difficult to follow these guidelines than if it was a fixed manufacturing plant. A fixed manufacturing plant will have permanent guardrails, permanent stairways, and permanent ladders with safety devices such as cages. While a construction site does not have the luxury of having anything permanent. Construction sites will have temporary ladders, temporary guardrails or have no guiderails at all (Asfahl & Rieske, 2010). With the limitation of fall protection on a construction site, the employer must still mitigate the fall risk. Employees working on scaffolding are exposed to great heights, and will require fall protection on a construction sites. OSHA has a set of specified standards that directly pertain to construction fall safety. These standards require that all temporary guardrails have the ability to with stand aside load of 200lbs (Asfahl & Rieske, 2010). This is important due to the false sense of security the guardrails presents, and if not constructed to OSHA standards it may result in a tragic fall. The lanyard system is...
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...Pearson BTEC Level 1 Award in Health and Safety in a Construction Environment (QCF) – Workbook Pearson BTEC Level 1 Award in Health and Safety in a Construction Environment (QCF) Level 1: 4 Credits Learner name: | | Learner registration number: | | Centre name/number: | | Assessor/tutor name: | | Your job role (if applicable): | | Main Organization:(This will either be the organization the Learner is employed by or, if the Learner is not currently employed within the construction sector an organization they are familiar with.) | UNIT SIGN OFFI confirm that the answers given within this workbook are my own work. Learner signature: Date: | I confirm that the evidence in this workbook has been assessed against the assessment criteria for this unit and has judged for validity, authenticity, currency, reliability and sufficiency.Assessor/tutor signature: Date: | Assessment Guidance It is expected that the majority of learners who will be undertaking this qualification will be preparing for employment within a construction role in an organization. The expectation is that learners will choose to complete this workbook in the context of their own job role. This method should allow learners to access the material required with ease and utilize the information in the workbook as evidence against a knowledge-based qualification where appropriate. However, it is necessary...
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...Fall Hazards On The Job Nicholas J. Marsh Columbia Southern University The Problem With fall Protection In the Construction Industry Far to often the problem(s) with fall protection in the construction industry begins with workers not being properly trained. When it comes to fall protection companies either fail to give the proper training on fall protection. Companies assume that they have experienced men and woman working with them. A company may have hired a new employee and that employee may have been hired under false pretenses, the employee may have lied saying they have had lots of experience with fall protection. That’s why it is important for a company to have its’ own fall protection training in place. No matter how much experience a person may say they have that person may not be telling the truth so they can secure a job. Another problem with fall related accidents is that the safety equipment may be old and outdated, or have burns, and cuts. Companies are not always the ones to blame when a worker is injured from a fall. Some employees choose not to wear any fall protection, wear their fall protection improperly, or fail to inspect their safety equipment properly even though they have been properly trained to do so. You can lead a horse to water but you can make him drink it. Same holds true in the construction industry, you can provide all the safety training in the world and supply the best safety equipment, but it is ultimately up to the worker to choose...
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...Improve Construction Safety?: Assessing the Impact of a Collaborative Safety-in-Design Process Marc Weinstein1; John Gambatese, M.ASCE2; and Steven Hecker3 Abstract: This paper analyzes the impact of a large-scale safety-in-design initiative during the design and construction of a semiconductor manufacturing facility in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Drawing on multiple data sources including individual interviews, group interviews, construction documentation, and an expert panel involved in the initiative, the writers identify 26 potential design changes on the project and assess the importance of timing, trade contractor involvement, and the type of design change in determining whether a proposed design change was ultimately integrated into the final construction plans. The writers further consider whether adopted design changes would have occurred in the absence of the safety-in-design initiative and whether the accepted design changes ultimately impacted construction site safety on the project. This analysis of a full-scale safety-in-design initiative provides important insights into how injury prevention efforts in the construction industry can begin upstream by involving designers, engineers, and trade contractors in preconstruction processes. DOI: 10.1061/ ASCE 0733-9364 2005 131:10 1125 CE Database subject headings: Construction management; Design; Safety; Injuries; Accident prevention. Introduction The notion that the safety of construction worksites...
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...MANAGING RISKS IN CONSTRUCTION WORK Draft Code of Practice Table of Contents FOREWORD 4 SCOPE AND APPLICATION 4 1. INTRODUCTION 5 1.1 What is construction work? 5 1.2 Who has duties relating to construction work? 7 1.3 What is involved in managing risks relating to construction work? 10 2. MANAGING RISKS WITH CONSTRUCTION WORK 12 2.1 Identify the hazards 12 2.2 Assess the risks 12 2.3 Control the risks 13 2.4 Review control measures 14 3. SAFE WORK METHOD STATEMENTS 16 3.1 What is a safe work method statement? 16 3.2 Preparing a safe work method statement 17 3.3 Implementing a safe work method statement 18 3.4 Reviewing a safe work method statement 19 4. WHS MANAGEMENT PLANS 21 4.1 What is a WHS management plan? 21 4.2 Preparing a WHS management plan 21 4.3 Implementing the WHS management plan 21 4.4 Reviewing and revising a WHS management plan 22 5. LICENCES 23 5.1 High risk work 23 5.2 Other licences 23 6. INFORMATION, TRAINING, INSTRUCTION AND SUPERVISION 25 6.1 General construction induction training 25 6.2 Workplace specific training 26 6.3 Other training 26 6.4 Supervision 27 7. FACILITIES AND THE WORK ENVIRONMENT 28 7.1 Facilities at a construction workplace 28 7.2 The work environment 29 7.3 Emergency plan 31 8. CONTROLLING RISKS IN CONSTRUCTION WORK 32 8.1 Falls and falling objects 32 8.2 Traffic management 37 8.3 Essential services 38 8.4 Hazardous manual tasks 39 8.5 Hazardous chemicals...
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...NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety [pic] UNIT IGC3: HEALTH AND SAFETY PRACTICAL APPLICATION IGC3 – The Health and Safety Practical Application Candidate and course provider declarations: For completion by the candidate: I declare that the work submitted for this practical application assessment ie. the completed observation sheets and the report to management, is my own work. I recognise that contravention of this statement constitutes malpractice and may result in my being subject to the penalties set out in the NEBOSH Malpractice policy. Name (Print) Signature Date 15/06/2014 For completion by a course provider representative (e.g. internal practical assessor): I declare that the work marked is identical to that received from the candidate. I recognise that contravention of this statement constitutes malpractice and may result in my being subject to the penalties set out in the NEBOSH Malpractice policy. Name (Print) Maitha Hassan Abdulla Signature Date 15/06/2014 For completion by the course provider’s internal practical assessor: I declare that I have marked this work and am both qualified and approved by NEBOSH to do so. I recognise that contravention of this statement constitutes malpractice and may result in my being subject to the penalties set out in the NEBOSH Malpractice policy. ...
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...The Australian Industry Group Business prospects in 2013: Australia’s gap year? februAry 2013 national CEo survEy: Principal contact person for this report: Julie Toth Chief Economist THE AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRY GROUP Direct Tel: (03) 9867 0124 Julie.Toth@aigroup.asn.au This report was produced with financial support from the Government of Australia’s Productivity, Education and Training (PET) Fund. © THE AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRY GROUP, 2013 The copyright in this work is owned by the publisher, The Australian Industry Group, 51 Walker Street, North Sydney NSW 2060. All rights reserved. No part of this work covered by copyright may be reproduced or copied in any form or by any means (graphic, electronic or mechanical) without the written permission of the publisher. ISBN 978-1-921768-44-6 2 Ai Group National CEO Survey 2013 Business prospects in 2013 Australian Industry Group National CEO Survey Business prospects in 2013: Australia's gap year? Ai Group National CEO Survey 2013 Business prospects in 2013 3 Key messages Business prospects in 2013: Australia's gap year? The Australian economy is going through significant change, with multiple, long-term forces restructuring our economy (such as global growth shifts and our own demographic changes), and ongoing challenges in our immediate outlook (such as the high Australian dollar and our relatively high business cost base). Recent drivers of growth are waning, with capital investment by the mining industry due to peak soon...
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...Inc. September 5, 2009 Masterpiece Builders “Grocery contracted with Masterpiece Construction to renovate the store on Main Street in My Town” (Cooper, 2009). Masterpiece Construction increased its workload during the period covering the promised renovations for Grocery, Inc., causing Masterpiece Construction to subcontract the work for the renovation to Build Them to Fall. Once Grocery, Inc. realized the poor quality of work, the company petitioned for an injunction and filed a suit for breach of contract against Masterpiece Construction. Grocery’s request for specific performance is burdensome because Masterpiece Construction does not have enough labor to complete the contract for Grocery, Inc., thus creating a hardship for Masterpiece Construction. The personal service contract is the main reason the courts would not grant such a request because the “courts would find it difficult or impracticable to supervise or monitor performance of the contract” (Cheeseman, 2004, p. 311). Masterpiece Construction attempts to escape responsibility for the improper workmanship by formulating two arguments; these arguments include (a) commercial impracticability and (b) the right to delegate duties. Unless the original contract stipulated no delegation of duties by another company, Masterpiece Construction is within its contractual rights to seek help from Build Them to Fall; however, the inferior workmanship from Build causes an issue with Grocery, Inc because of the...
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...1) The full words of OSHA is Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994. This act is an act to make further provision for securing the safety, health and welfare of person at work, for protecting others against risks to safety or health in connection with the activities of persons at work, to establish the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, and for matters connected therewith. The objective for this act is to ensure safety of workers, protect workers at place of work, encourage conducive work environment and improve standard of safety. PC Construction shares over half a century of industry-leading excellence with every client they meet. PC Construction offer general contracting, construction management, and design-build service to private or public companies for projects of all size. With their headquarters in Vermont and a network of locations in Florida, Georgia, Maine, New York and North Carolina, they manage project offices up and down the east coast and boast an annual volume average of $500 million. Likelihood of an occurrence This value is based on the likelihood of an event occurring. You may ask the question “How many times has this event happened in the past?” Assessing likelihood is based worker experience, analysis or measurement. Likelihood levels range from “most likely” to “inconceivable.” For example, a small spill of bleach from a container when filling a spray bottle is most likely to occur during every shift. Alternatively, a leak of diesel...
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...What is fall protection? Ask 10 people what fall protection means and you’re likely to get 10 different answers. For many in the construction industry, equipment is the first thing that comes to mind: personal fall-arrest systems, safety nets, or guardrails, for example. But fall protection is more than equipment. Fall protection is what you do to eliminate fall hazards, to prevent falls, and to ensure that workers who do fall don’t die. Is it possible to make sense of fall protection? We think so. You accomplish fall protection by doing the following: • Identify and evaluate fall hazards. • Eliminate fall hazards, if possible. • Train workers to recognize fall hazards. • Use appropriate systems and methods to prevent falls and to protect workers if they do fall. • Inspect and maintain fall-protection equipment before and after using it. Why we need protection from falling? We need protection because even if we’re experienced working at heights, we can lose our balance or grip. We can slip, trip, or misstep. We can fall at any time. We may think that our reflexes will protect us, but we’re falling before we know it. And we don’t have to fall far to get hurt. What is your fall-protection role? Everyone involved in a construction project has a role to play in preventing falls. Employers. Identify fall hazards at the site. Eliminate the hazards, prevent falls from occurring, or ensure that if falls occur, no one dies. Make sure that employees follow safe practices and...
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...housing population. During the month of February 2013, 4,407 single family homes were sold in Houston. Single-family home average sales price increased by 9.6% to $220,445 from $201,113 in February last year. The median price also increased by 7.9% to $161,700 in February 2013 (HAR, 2103). Median price is the price at which half of the homes were sold. The above information is summarised in the table below. | February 2012 | February 2103 | Change | Single-family home sales | 3,815 | 4,407 | 15.5% | Single-family average sales price | $201,113 | $220,445 | 9.6% | Single-family median sales price | $149,900 | $161,700 | 7.9% | According to Jennifer Dawson (2009), the improvement in the housing market in Houston can be attributed to low construction costs, affordable mortgages and presence of a large number of contractors. In addition, the average annual income per capita in Houston grew by 37.3% to $48,259 in 2008 from $35,140 in 2003 (Thomas & Hall 2009). The city has also created 224,000 more jobs...
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...Unsafe acts (88%) & unsafe conditions (10%) (Heinrich) 1950 – Safety management systems 1960 – Training and development 1970 – OHS Act and Minerals Act (Accountability) 1980 – Psychology of safety (BBS) - Human Factors Approach - Risk Management 1990 – Organisation culture - Mine Health and Safety Act - HIRA / FRM 2000 – Self assessment - Risk Based Safety ARTICLE An electric gondola used on the exterior of a high-rise construction in the Makati business district of the capital Manila collapsed on January 27. It fell 21 stories and landed on protruding metal rods. Ten construction workers died; one survived but is now in the hospital with numerous fractures and injuries. The tragic death of these workers was completely avoidable. The accident reveals the appalling working conditions of the construction industry in the Philippines. The accident occurred at Eton Property Group’s luxury condominium construction, Eton Residences. Eton Residences is a 39-story complex scheduled for completion this year. The workers had been installing glass windows on the 32nd...
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...had said. However, Bush's statement does not fall appropriate for America only anymore, for this addiction appeared to be contagious. Canada, America's neighbor from the North, discovered on its land the largest amass of oil in the world, a sea of sand marinated with bitumen. In 2008, TransCanada, an oil company, proposed the largest construction project on the planet, a pipeline that would transport tar sands oil from Alberta, Western Canada to the sixth largest refinery ever built located in the Gulf Coast of Mexico. The project faced a great number of criticisms from environmentalists, citizens, and some members of the U.S. government; however, as Canada’s tar sands oil industry grew, American and Canadian oilmen and politicians could not help but turn their eyes to Canada’s oil industry, a market that both countries cannot afford to lose, and so, as of 2010, the Keystone Pipeline made it through three phases of its construction. Nevertheless, the last and largest phase of the pipeline's construction is still on hold, as it will go through one of the greatest and richest aquifers on Earth, the Ogallala Aquifers. Tar sands oil is one of the dirtiest and most harmful fuels on Earth, and the 5,200 kilometer long Keystone XL Pipeline is boosting and promoting its industry in many parts of the world, therefore; its phase four construction permit must not be issued and the operating phases must be shutdown. Bush’s statement does not fall appropriate for America only anymore, for...
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...are pleased to present our Proposal and Statement of Qualification for your review. Enclosed you will find our qualifications and information regarding our services and expectations of this project. Buck Island Construction offers our understanding of the proposed project, key personnel information, and our safety plans specific to this project. Buck Island Construction is an award winning Construction Management firm with extensive experience in Hospital Renovations and Medical Office Buildings. We will be a resource for both the Pike Company and the Newark-Wayne Hospital Representatives, and offer advice on costs, schedules, and means and methods. Our goal is to provide a quality project, on time and within budget, to the highest expectations in order to allow the Newark-Wayne Community Hospital to reach their full potential. We believe in open and honest communication and transparency regarding cost, schedule, and coordination. We look forward to the opportunity to work with The Pike Company team in order to complete a successful and rewarding project that will benefit the Newark-Wayne Hospital and the community. Thank you for the opportunity to respond to your Request for Proposal. Sincerely, Ellen Brooks Project Manager Buck Island Construction brooksen@buckislandconstruction.com 315-558-9668 93 Main Street Lake Placid, NY 12946 | | p. (518)-410-1198f. (518)-944-5842 | | info@buckislandconstruction.com BuckIslandConstruction.com | Statement...
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...Construction and Extraction occupations are expected to grow by about 10% by 2016. This is according to the Occupational Quarterly Outlook (2007). While this is not the leading occupational group growth, it is still on the increase. More than half of these new jobs will be to replace older, retired workers (OQO, 2007) Construction and Extraction occupations include skilled trades such as, Boilermakers, Masons, Carpenters, Carpet Installers, Building Inspectors, Drywall Installers, Gas and Oil workers, and Electricians, to name a few. You can see a more complete list in the Occupation Outlook Handbook, under the Construction and Extraction tab. For an entry level position in one of these fields a high school diploma or equivalent is needed. While the projected growth for Construction and extraction job as a whole is only 10%, the growth for Electricians is much higher. As of 2010 there were 577,000 electrician jobs. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the projected job growth for this trade is 23% between 2010 and 2020. This is faster growth than all other occupations. This growth will be caused by more new homes and business being built that need wired. There will be more alternative power such as, wind and solar too. This will require new skills for electricians. There is expected to be 133,700 new jobs. The average pay for a skilled electrician is $48,250 a year or $23.20 an hour. Most electricians will only need a high school diploma or the equivalent, although some...
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