CONSTRUCTION HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT

Description:

This course is designed to assist the student with the planning and implementation of health and safety practices and provide the student with sound understanding of relevant health and safety regulations. The student will learn safe work practices in construction as well as how to identify and prevent or correct problems associated with occupational safety and health on project sites.

 

Learning Outcome

 Upon successful completion of this course, the student will have demonstrated the ability to:

·         present a coherent understanding of the occupational health and safety administration in Ghana in the context of construction work;

·         discuss the roles of government, unions, client, construction consultants and the contractor in health and safety of construction projects in Ghana;

·         identify hazards on construction project sites that pose a danger or threat to site workers’ health and safety or that of others;

·         manage unsafe behaviours, health hazards and unsafe conditions on project sites; and,

·         prepare and implement a health and safety plan for a construction project.

 


Course Content

·         Importance of health and safety in construction.

·         Theories of accident causation and types of accidents.

·         Occupational health and safety laws that apply to the construction industry.

·         The role of stakeholders in health and safety in construction projects.

·         Health and safety provisions in standard forms of contracts.

·         Health and safety practices in construction.

·         Health and safety management in construction; behavioural approaches to health and safety management, health and safety management system and integrated health and safety management systems.

·         Process of identification of hazards and health and safety risk analysis.

·         Development of a health and safety implementation plan

 

 

 

 

WELLBEING AND SECURITY THE EXECUTIVES ON DEVELOPMENT UNDERTAKINGS: THE PERSPECTIVE ON DEVELOPMENT DEALERS

ABSTRACT

The perplexing organizations of exercises of development projects have made the development

climate disagreeable and hazardous for the development merchants. Dealers play a key

job in development project conveyance and are the significant survivors of mishaps that influence adversely

on project execution. This study evaluated the view of development dealers on the

wellbeing and security the executives on the building site. The review goals are; to decide the

exchange with the most noteworthy mishap openness level, to learn the kinds of mishaps and level of

event, to decide the significant reasons for mishaps on building destinations, and to look at the

potential measures for forestalling mishaps on building destinations. A very much organized poll

furthermore, delineated purposive examining strategy were taken on in social occasion information from the members

in Abuja, Nigeria. With an unwavering quality file of something like 0.80, the accumulated information were investigated utilizing

frequencies, percentiles, mean investigation, Kruskal-Wallis test, and Mann-Whitney U tests. The

investigation discovered that Concreters/Artisan/Bricklayers, Craftsmen, and Steel drinking sprees/fixers/welders are

the most weak exchanges gatherings to risks and mishaps on building locales. Fall-related, Slip

also, outing, and contact with objects (struck by objects) are the most happening mishap types. The

most basic reasons for mishaps in light of dealers discernment are; lacking preparation, drugs

furthermore, liquor, clowning around by laborers, unnecessary working hours bringing about mental exhaustion, and

correspondence issues. The main measures for forestalling mishaps on development

locales are; prizes and punishments for defaulters, the utilization of individual defensive gear, viable

correspondence framework on location, right situation of stepping stool through appropriate oversight, and site

discipline among laborers. The review reasons that there is a low degree of execution of

wellbeing and security the board rehearses on development projects site by development

associations. Prizes for wellbeing compliances and punishments for HS freak laborers ought to be set up by the administration of building locales.

 

1. INTRODUCTION

The development business is among the top ventures of any country that contribute incredibly to the

endurance and food of monetary and infrastructural improvement. The fast improvement of

development exercises get from the monetary improvement of any country (Tanko et al., 2020).

Eze et al. (2017) portrayed the business as the monetary central player and the bedrock of the

endurance of economies. Regardless of the tremendous significance of the business in achieving quick

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