The Absolutely Essential Health and Safety Toolkit for the Smaller Construction Contractor
The Absolutely Essential Health and Safety Toolkit for the Smaller Construction Contractor

Author: HEALTH AND SAFETY EXECUTIVE. HSE.

Publisher:

Published: 2008-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780717662326

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Includes a section on working at height, and a section on ladders. This title provides a checklist for health and safety problems on small construction sites. It helps you manage or avoid them and to ensure your own health and safety as well as the health and safety of the people who work for you and others such as the public.

Construction Safety Planning
Construction Safety Planning

Author: David V. MacCollum

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 1995-06-16

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 9780471286691

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Construction Safety Planning David V. MacCollum Construction Safety Planning is a comprehensive, practical, step-by-step guide for those who design and oversee large and small projects. Designed to facilitate compliance with new OSHA objectives, it presents, for those who are responsible for construction safety, what questions to ask in order to avoid conditions that invite injury or death on site. The book shows how to integrate safety planning into existing design and construction scheduling in order to avoid duplicating paperwork that is normally associated with safety planning. Advice is given on how to involve all supervisory personnel as hazard hunters, so that timely prevention measures can be taken. Author David V. MacCollum is a forty-five-year veteran safety engineer who participated in the development of safety planning concepts used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on big dam projects in the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s. In this clearly written reference he highlights the concepts and practices that reduced construction deaths by 75 percent and are today still enabling the Corps of Engineers to enjoy the same reduction nationwide, when compared to similar work not under its supervision--the end result being savings of several billion dollars each year. The risk of death on the job for construction workers is five times greater than that of the average American worker. A new OSHA era will change that. With this book, everyone working in the field of construction--from design to maintenance--will have the tools and knowledge to make a difference.

Contractor Health and Safety Compliance for Small to Medium-Sized Construction Companies
Contractor Health and Safety Compliance for Small to Medium-Sized Construction Companies

Author: Zakari Mustapha

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-09-06

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 135162315X

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This book explores the formation of small and medium-sized construction company's (SME) compliance with health and safety issues in developing countries. Little has been written about the formation of SME contractors' health and safety compliance for developing countries, especially, in the sub-sahara regions where construction and infrastructure development activities have significantly increased in order to serve the development mandate of those countries. Thus, this book will provides insight into construction safety for SMEs, as well as health and safety compliance, and its policy implementation trends and development.

Construction Safety Management Systems
Construction Safety Management Systems

Author: Steve Rowlinson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-04-29

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13: 1134494939

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The construction industry has a distressingly poor safety record, whether measured in absolute terms or alongside other industries. The level of construction safety in a country is influenced by factors such as variations in the labour forces, shifting economies, insurance rates, legal ramifications and the stage of technological development. Yet the problem is a world-wide one, and many of the ways of tackling it can be applied across countries. Effective tools include designing, preplanning, training, management commitment and the development of a safety culture. The introduction and operation of effective safety management systems represents a viable way forwards, but these systems are all too rarely implemented. How can this be done? Should we go back to prescriptive legislation? This book considers these questions by drawing together leading-edge research papers from the proceedings of an international conference conducted by a commission (W099) on Safety and Health on Construction Sites of CIB, the international council of building research organisations.