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
·
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
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Importance of health and safety in construction.
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Theories of accident causation and types of
accidents.
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Occupational health and safety laws that apply
to the construction industry.
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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
WELLBEING AND SECURITY THE EXECUTIVES ON DEVELOPMENT UNDERTAKINGS: THE PERSPECTIVE ON DEVELOPMENT DEALERS