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Construction Safety Management Insights

The document discusses construction safety and safety cultures. It notes that the construction industry has poor occupational health and safety performance despite initiatives, with workers still being injured or killed each year. Factors like the temporary nature of construction projects and subcontracting hinder safety improvements. However, these are not excuses for the poor performance. The document outlines elements, characteristics, and types of safety cultures, and how leadership, organizational support, training, and continuous improvement can strengthen a proactive safety culture and its benefits.

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Construction Safety Management Insights

The document discusses construction safety and safety cultures. It notes that the construction industry has poor occupational health and safety performance despite initiatives, with workers still being injured or killed each year. Factors like the temporary nature of construction projects and subcontracting hinder safety improvements. However, these are not excuses for the poor performance. The document outlines elements, characteristics, and types of safety cultures, and how leadership, organizational support, training, and continuous improvement can strengthen a proactive safety culture and its benefits.

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Capital University of Science and Technology,

Islamabad

CE- 5833
Construction and Safety Management
Week No. 04

Dr. Syed Shujaa Safdar Gardezi

Department of Civil Engineering


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Construction Safety :

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Construction Safety :

▪ The construction industry performs poorly in occupational health


and safety (OHS).
▪ Despite many OHS campaigns and initiatives, the statistics reveal
that construction workers continue to be killed or injured at work
each year.
▪ More seriously the large number of construction workers who
suffer impaired health or long-term illness caused or made worse
by their work. Many of these illnesses only manifest themselves
years after exposure and many are ultimately fatal.
▪ Their persistence indicates a serious management failure in an
industry.
▪ These injuries, deaths and illnesses can and should be prevented.

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Construction Safety :
▪ The organization of construction
industry does not support the
development or implementation
of ways to eliminate hazards or
reduce risks to the health and
safety of workers to an
acceptably low level.

▪ Structural and cultural


characteristics of the
construction industry that
currently militate against the However, none of these characteristics
improvement of the industry’s should ever be used as an excuse for the
OHS performance are described industry’s poor performance because all of
briefly below.
these issues are potentially manageable.
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Construction Safety – Cultures :

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Safety Cultures :

A collection of the beliefs, perceptions and values that employees


share in relation to risks within an organization, such as a workplace
or community.

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Safety Cultures :

An organizational culture with a


high level of importance on safety
beliefs, values and attitudes which
are shared by the majority of
people within the company or
workplace.

A positive safety culture can result in improved workplace health and


safety (WHS) and organizational performance.
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Safety Cultures :

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Elements of SAFETY Culture :

1. Human Factors
2. Leadership
3. Environment
4. Systems
5. Behavior

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Safety Cultures :

1. Pathological
2. Reactive
3. Calculative
4. Proactive
5. Generative

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Safety Cultures :

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Safety Cultures - Characteristics :

1. Informed
2. Reporting
3. Just (Fair)
4. Flexible
5. Learning
6. Trust worthy
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Safety Cultures :

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Safety Cultures – How to improve ? :

A strong and effective safety cultures requires


1. Leadership and its support
2. Organizational support
3. Colorations
4. Safety promotion
5. Positive attitude
6. Education and trainings
7. Continuous Improvements

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Safety Culture – How to improve ? :

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Safety Cultures – Benefits :

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