Department of Architecture and Planning

Gautam Buddha University, U.P.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT REPORT ON

CONSTRUCTION
SAFETY
MANAGEMENT
 What is Safety Management
Safety management system is
a comprehensive
management system designed
to manage safety elements in
the workplace. It includes
policy, objectives, plans,
procedures, organisation,
responsibilities and other
measures
Why eliminate hazards
when you can buy
Personal Protective
Equipment ?

Construction
Safety

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 Introduction
• Importance of Safety:

• The construction industry, employing the largest labour

force in the country has accounted for about 11 % of all
occupational injuries and 20 %of all deaths resulting from
occupational accidents.
• Humanitarian Concern: The resulting suffering of the injured
workers and their families is difficult to quantify in economic terms.
• Economic Reasons: In addition, there are other indirect costs that
result from accidents. The direct & indirect cost of accidents can be :
 Introduction
Direct Cost
• Medical Care expenses for injured
• Workmen’s compensation costs
• Insurance premium increases.
• Replacement cost of equipment and material damaged in accidents.
• Facility repair and cleanup
• Fee for legal counsel
 Introduction

Indirect Cost
• Slowdown in operation
• Decrease in morale which affects productivity
• Productive time lost by injured worker and fellow workers
• Administrative work associated with accidents
• Loss of clients
• Overtime necessitated by work slowdown
 Introduction

• Laws & Regulations As per different acts & Laws, the

employer should look after the safety of the employee.
Violation of these laws will be subjected to punishment.
Organizational Image
• A good safety Record can produce higher morale and
productivity and stronger employee loyalty. It will also
improve the company’s public Image and therefore make it
easier to acquire negotiated jobs.
Role of Managers
 Safety in construction Industry
• An organization setup Safety Engineering Department has to play
basically the role of catalyst which communicates the message of
safety and motivates the employee to adopt safe practices.
Role of Managers
• Safe Production should be motto of the manager. With a strong
conviction of safety, he has to impart the message.
• Instruction of Work
• This should contain all the element of information
• Who: Assignment of Responsibility
• How: Standard operating practices
• When: time schedule
• Where: Place of work
• What: The work to be assigned
 Role of Managers
• Aline manager has the following role toplay:
• To ensure operation with acceptable safety standards.
• To ensure follow up of all stator norms and safety recommendations
• To keep employee informed about hazards, risks and safety measures.
• To procure material and equipment which meet safety requirement.
• To motivate the employee to observe safety norms.
• To formulate and implement standard operating and maintenance
practices.
• To ensure proper keep up of equipment.
• To ensure proper work environment.
• To formulate and implement inspection schedules for house-keeping
 Approaches to Safety
• Mr. Trevor Kietz of ICI U.K has enlisted various approaches to safety.
• The Prist Type: This is a method of sermon giving where a safety manager conveys only
benefits of safety to the workers.
• The Lawer Type: Such managers believes in statutory obligations. He sees every aspect of
safety with references to acts and rules.
• Police Man type: He sees safety with punishment angle and brands injured employee as
careless. He imposes safety without going into details. He is a fault finder not afact
finder.
• Statician type; In this method statistics are collected and safety needs are explained on
this basis.
• Engineer like: He believes that the only way to combact evil of accidents is by
introducing technical system in industrial activities.
• Postman type approach: He believes in display of safety posters and slogans.
• All the above methods separately applied yields partial results.
Role of Management in Ensuring Safety
 Role of Management in Ensuring Safety
• To analyze the cause of accidents in time and enforce remedies
(Planning)
• To motivate workers by suitable rewards and recognition (Leading)
• To be keen in good house keeping, removing unsafe condition
(Organizing)
• To care for job satisfaction by proper deployment. (Leading)
• To make disaster management plan &enforce (Planning)
• To make action plan for each managers within time frame and
review (Planning)
• Discussion on compliance and corrective action (Controlling)
Role of Management in Ensuring Safety
Safety Management
 Management Aspect
• Safety Manual
• Prepare a safety manual for the company.
• Safety Co-coordinator
• Depute full time/ part time safety coordinators depending upon the size of the
project site and natural hazards.
• Worker Screening
• Screening of Workmen
• Project Safety Plan
• Prepare a project safety Plan
• (a) Overall Scope of work : Fabrication, erection, excavation, concreting,
brickwork, finishing work, painting, blasting, non destructive tests, etc.
• (b) Obligation Chart: Responsibility of the line functionaries and reporting of the
line functionaries and reporting of the safety engineering functions
Management Aspect
Management Aspect
 Approaches To Improve Safety
• Recognizing the Importance of safety performance, a contractor can
approach the problem in four different ways:
• Organizational Approach, Physical Approach, Behavioral Approach,
and economic incentives.
 Approaches To Improve Safety
• Organizational Approach
• A safety programme cannot be successful without an appropriate
organizational setup. A company safety programme should be a part
of the contractor’s business, just as scheduling and cost accounting,
• Safety Department:
• A formal safety department is essential in a company. This
department should be incharge of the safety and jobsite
representatives, recording and analyzing safety and other accident
prevention programmes.
 Approaches To Improve Safety
• Committee
• A safety committee should be set up to guide the operation of safety
programs. The members of the committee should include all levels of
workers and management to reflect opinions on safety from all levels. It
should review the company’s safety programme periodically.
• Field Procedures
• Asystem must be designed to process safety suggestions from workers, the
people who carries out the daily construction process, since they are in the
best position to detect any possible accidents. They should be reminded
and encouraged to bring out any unsafe procedure detected in their daily
routine.
Approaches To Improve Safety
 SAFETY MEASURES:
Management Commitment
Staffing for safety
Planning: pre-project and pre-task
Safety education: orientation and specialized training
Worker involvement
Evaluation and recognition/reward
Subcontract management
Accident/incident investigations
Drug and alcohol testing
 GETTING TO ZERO

Committed and Credible Safety Advocate

Safety – A Core Concept

Pre-Task Planning

“Safety is not a priority, it is

a precondition.”