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Occupational Safety in Construction Industry

The document discusses occupational health and safety (OHS) in the construction industry, emphasizing the prevalence of injuries and diseases, common causes, and the importance of safety measures. It highlights that a significant percentage of injuries are due to unsafe acts and conditions, with laborers being the most affected group. The document also outlines various accident theories and factors contributing to workplace accidents, underscoring the need for effective safety management.

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Occupational Safety in Construction Industry

The document discusses occupational health and safety (OHS) in the construction industry, emphasizing the prevalence of injuries and diseases, common causes, and the importance of safety measures. It highlights that a significant percentage of injuries are due to unsafe acts and conditions, with laborers being the most affected group. The document also outlines various accident theories and factors contributing to workplace accidents, underscoring the need for effective safety management.

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OSH

INTRODUCTION

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 Discuss OSH Data in Occupational Injury, Accident,
Illness/diseases in construction industry.
 Identify the common cause of injury, accident, diseases
Course in construction industry.
 Discuss importance of OSH.
objectives  Identify the factor that contribute to accidents.
 Discuss the cost of accident.

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Occupational health and safety (OHS)
Introduction relate to health, safety, and welfare
issues in the workplace.
to
Occupational
OHS includes the laws, standards, and
Safety & programs that are aimed at making the
workplace better for workers, along
Health with co-workers, family members,
customers, and other stakeholders.

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Health shall connote a sound state
of the body and mind of the worker,
Common which enables him to perform his job
normally, in a state of well-being.
Definition of
Terms in Safe or Safety shall refer to the
physical or environmental conditions
OSH of work or employment, which
substantially comply with the
provisions of this Standards.
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Employment Situation in
Statistical January 2019
Data of • More males are employed than
females. Three in every five (61.7%)
Safety and of the estimated 41.8 million
Health in the employed persons.
• Employed females-38.3 percent of the
Workplace- total employed persons.
PSA 2019 • The country’s labor force slipped by
1.0 percent from 44.098M in January
2018 to 43.659M in January 2019
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A. Occupational Injury and Diseases
Three out of every five (66.1%) cases of
occupational injuries were cases without workdays
lost.

Temporary incapacity cases (32.6%).

Fatal cases (0.6% or 13).


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Cases of Occupational Injuries with Workdays Lost
Types of Injuries

5.5

15.5

53.7
17.3

Superficial and open wounds Fractures Foreign body in the eye Dislocation,sprians & strains

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The most common injured parts
of the body among workers in
the construction industry were
Parts of the wrists and hands (33.3%).
Body
Other parts of the body mostly
Injured injured were arms and shoulders
(25.7%), head (21.5) and lower
extremities (10.9%).

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Half (46.6%) of cases of occupational
injuries with workdays lost were caused
by stepping on, striking against or struck
by objects, excluding falling objects.
Causes of
Injury This was followed by falls of persons
(15.2%) and caught in or between objects
(13.6%).

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The top three (3)
agents of occupational
Agents of injuries:
Injury • machines or equipment
(33.3%)
• hand tools (22.8%)
• materials or objects (22.1%).
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Laborers and unskilled workers were the
most injured type of occupation in the
construction industry at 34.4 percent.
Cases of
Injuries by
This was followed by craft and related
Occupation trade workers (24.8%), and both the
technicians and associate professionals’
group and service workers and shop and
market sales workers group with 10.6
percent shares each.

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Common Occupational Diseases

Back pains-Most common


b.
Occupational neck-shoulder pains
Diseases essential hypertension

occupational dermatitis (9.4%).

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Statistical  Every year 2.78 million workers
Data of Safety die from occupational
and Health- accidents and work-related
International diseases (of which 2.4 million
Labor are disease-related) and an
Organizations additional 374 million workers
(ILO) suffer from non-fatal
occupational accidents.
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High Standards for safety, housekeeping and
cleanliness

Promote safety culture in the organizations

IMPORTANCE Reduce absenteeism


OF OSH
Compliance with the legal requirements

Reducing business costs

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Enables a company to win and
retain business customers

IMPORTANCE Worker Compensation insurance


OF OSH claims decrease

Company most valuable asset


are protected-Human Resources

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Why is it important to
Manage Safely?

 MORAL

 LEGAL

 FINANCIAL
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Poor Training and Supervision

Factor that Inadequate Emphasis on Safety


contribute to Excessive Work Demands
construction
accidents Hazardous Worksite

Faulty Equipment
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Problems arising from
workers or the work
Factor that team
contribute to
construction
accidents Deficiencies with risk
management
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Cost of accident-ICEBERG THEORY
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A. Accident Theory

The Domino Theory


 88% of all accidents are
caused by unsafe acts of
people,
 10% by unsafe actions,
 2% by “acts of God”.

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Accident Theory

2. Human errors Models

• Human Factor
• Human Behavior

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Accident Theory

3. Multiple Causation Theory


According to this theory, the contributory factors can be
grouped into the following two categories:

 Behavioral
 Environmental.

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4. James Reason Active and
Latent Failure
• Accidents-caused by active failures
Accident or latent conditions which can lead
to human error or violations.
Theory • Active failures-acts or conditions
precipitating the incident situation.
• Latent conditions are the
managerial influences and social
pressures.
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Accident is the final event in
Accident/Incid an unplanned process that
results in injury or illness to an
ent employee and possibly property
damage.

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Types of Accident

 Struck-by
 Struck-against
 Contact-by-substance and
materials
 Contact-with-harmful substance
and materials
 Caught-on, caught in and
caught in between
 Fall-To-below

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Over-exertion
Types of
Accident Bodily reaction

Over exposure
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Types of
Incident
 Accident
 Injury Accident
 Damage-only
accident
 Near miss
 Dangerous
occurrence
 Ill-health
incident
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Immediate Causes- unsafe acts and
conditions that resulted in or could
have resulted in an accident.

Causes of Root Cause-management system


Accident causes.

Underlying Cause-combination of
underlying factors involved in an
incident
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Unsafe Acts

Unsafe act is any act


that deviates from a
generally recognized safe
way or specified method
of doing a job and which
increases the probabilities
for an accident.

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Example of Unsafe Act

[Link] heavy and other construction


equipment without qualification or authorization.

2. Lack of/or improper use of PPE.

Unsafe Acts 3. Operation equipment at unsafe speeds.

4. Failure to warn.

5. Bypass or removal of safety devices.

6. Using defective equipment and power tools.

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Factors that contribute to Unsafe Acts

 Society
 Organization
 project management
 Supervision
 Contractor
 site condition
 work group
 individual characteristics

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Unsafe
Conditions

Unsafe condition is an
unsatisfactory physical
condition existing in a
workplace environment
immediately before an
accident that was
significant in initiating the
event.

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1. Defective equipment
2. Inadequate guards
Example
3. Fire hazards
of Unsafe
4. Workplace congestion
Condition
s 5. Inadequate or broken warning systems
6. Hazardous air conditions
7. Lack of cleaning and poor housekeeping
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 Elimination
 Substitution
Controlling
 Engineering controls
Unsafe Acts
 Warnings
 Administrative and work practice
and Unsafe
controls Condition
 Personal protective equipment

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Accidents are defined as unplanned
occurrences which result in injuries, fatalities,
loss of production or damage to property and
assets.

Summary
According to W.H. Heinrich (1931), who
developed the so-called domino theory, 88% of
all accidents are caused by unsafe acts of
people, 10% by unsafe conditions and 2% by
“acts of God”.

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Unsafe condition is an unsatisfactory physical
condition existing in a workplace environment
immediately before an accident that was
significant in initiating the event.

Summary
Unsafe act is any act that deviates from a
generally recognized safe way or specified
method of doing a job and which increases the
probabilities for an accident.

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Integrated Survey on Labor and Employment
(ISLE) is one of the regular establishment-based
surveys of the Philippine Statistics Authority
(PSA) which is conducted every two (2) years.

According to ILO every day, people die as a


result of occupational accidents or work-
Summary related diseases – more than 2.78 million
deaths per year.

Laborers and unskilled workers were the most


injured type of occupation.

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THANK YOU

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