Safety training Construction Industry

This is found in ideas of monitoring and audits that can form part of a safety management system (Construction Skills 2010). The Construction Industry Training Board (Construction Skills 2010 18) advises that safety inspections should be carried out by someone with the ... 

J. J. KELLER S CONSTRUCTION TOOLBOX TALKS assists you by providing tools you need to conduct employee toolbox talks. Such training sessions, usually 5-15 minutes long and conducted weekly at the start of the shift, are a poprdar and widely used means to convey safety information in the construction industry. This product is designed specifically for use in these types of training sessions. However, the information included here can also be used when preparing other, more in-depth training sessions for your construction employees. 

Chapter 10 identifies an urgent need for a new kind of safety training in the construction industry. This training requires new methods and procedures if it is to effectively reduce the currently high incidence of accidents in Finland. A fiiU-scale model of the industry s real work situations aims to utilize the HSEQ Training Park as a safety training innovation that enables learning via practical demonstrations and active participation. 

The concept of the HSEQ Training Park as a new novel safety training innovation has been introduced in Finland. The original concept by the Rudus Construction Company in Espoo in Southern Finland was followed by a joint development process in Northern Finland, in Oulu. The construction process of the Training Park in Oulu shows how rival companies can joindy develop new kinds of practices when aU stakeholders have a common interest in accident-free construction sites. A good benchmark for the constmction industry as regards cooperation could be the Northern Finnish process industry, which has for years successfully jointly developed HSEQ practices, as reported by Vayrynen et al. (2012). 

In considering safe working and accident prevention in the construction industry, this chapter will follow broadly the progression of a construction operation. All stages should be adequately planned making allowance for the incorporation of safe working methods and safe systems of work. As work gets under way on the site, care should be taken to ensure that all those employed are properly trained in the jobs they have to do. This may be particularly difficult if much of the work is subcontracted, but the onus of responsibility for safety on the site rests with the main contractor. 

Site Training. The construction industry includes thousands of skilled and unskilled workers, in many cases sub-contacted by the main conti actor. Their time on the site could be relatively short and though an induction may be carried out on health and safety issues, it is rare for inductions to given on good site waste management, such as the importance of segregating waste into the correct skips. 

Poor levels of supervision, health and safety information and training are very significant factors in reducing health and safety awareness and, therefore, the culture. In the construction industry, the poor selection of contractors has a major negative effect on the culture. 

In an industry increasingly reliant upon the use of subcontractors, the main contractor retains the onus for health and safety on site. This onus can extend to training employees of subcontractors where their activities may affect the health and safety of the employees of the main contractor and of the subcontractor himself (ss. 2 and 3 of HSW). This is more clearly defined by CDM which requires the principal contractor to ensure that other employers on the construction work provide their employees with appropriate health and safety training when they are expos to new or additional risks due to ... 

Frank Swaine is a Senior Area Director for the Health and Safety Executive. Trained as a physicist, he spent several years working on legislation for the control and use of flammable liquids and on the EC directive on packaging and labelling regulations. He is actively involved with problems in the construction industry. 

Because they provide the detail lacking in the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, a knowledge of the MHSWR is important for every employer. They contain specific requirements on risk assessments, training, and dealing with other employers - to name only three of the significant areas which require action by employers in the construction industry, and the development of arrangements which need to be written into the health and safety policy. 

U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Training Manual OSHA 500for the Construction Industry. Des Plaines, IL OSHA Training Institute, 1997. 

The exercise carried out by the Construction Safety Association of Ontario in 1967 indicated that the cost of their accidents was about six times the net profits to the construction industry in Ontario. A 20% reduction was stated to effect a saving of 150 million. That exercise is possibly the reason for the emphasis on education and instruction training using all possible media. Seldom, if ever, in Britain is there reference to industrial accidents, not necessarily construction accidents, on television or in the newspapers. Excerpts from the Employers Federation s films have been shown, but have no impact unless they are followed through continuously. 

The safety representative is one of the employees without special training, but he has to have his heart in the matter. He has to call a natural authority his own because his activities as a safety representative do not make him automatically a supervisor. The Berufsgenossenschaften have to care for the necessary instructions of the safety representatives. Regular courses on one day or several days every year are held for the safety representatives of the construction industry. There are no regular schedules of inspection for the inspections result from the information material and guidance sent by the Berufsgenossenschaften by way of the enterprises to the safety representatives. I think this answers Mr Cornish s question in 84 too. 

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