Practices for Improving Safety on Your Construction Site

Posted by Construction Site on January 9th, 2019

Normally accidents and mishaps at a workplace are a minor nuisance that involves HR and a few hours or days of struggle, however, when it comes to accidents at construction sites, the outcome is a lot more serious and can often have fatal consequences.

We have heard plenty of stories of people falling from a height or having fatal injuries because of certain equipment and so on. In fact, construction related accidents alone contribute to over 20% of worksite related accidents.

So, keeping these numbers in mind, we understand how real and likely the incident of a worker under us has of getting into a construction site related accident. However, with the right practices and training, we can bring that number down really low, because at the end of the day, almost each and every single one of these accidents are preventable.

Plus, once the construction project begins, you can start tracking your data in order to store information and then with the help of the information from the data you collect, make decisions that help to mitigate risks. If you want to know more about doing that, you can visit https://www.procore.com/en-au/quality-safety for more information.

There are a few safety practices you should adopt to keep your construction site safe, and we will mention a few of them below.

• Before any worker steps into your construction site, you need to make sure that they understand the risk they are putting themselves in, and to also be cognizant of how their actions in the construction site can not only harm them, but also those around them as well. This will help them be more alert and responsible.

• A steady and direct communication line should be established. Your workers should go into the site each day knowing what they have to do and what they should expect. Headsets or smartphones should be given so that the workers are able to communicate with each other and the supervisors present.

• Always check for the necessary legal documentation and certification that proves that the worker under you has the necessary skills and knowledge that is legally recognized, preventing inexperienced people from working high risk jobs and avoiding any legal issues that might have otherwise occurred.

• It is important to inspect all the equipment and machinery and to make sure that it is well-maintained because old and badly maintained machinery is one of the leading reasons behind common construction site related accidents.

• Your workers should be trained in every manner possible from the start, and training should always be a cyclic thing. So, regardless of how new or old your employees might be, they still need to undergo routine training which includes watching safety videos, demonstrations and so on.

• While it is important that your employees and workers understand that they are responsible for their own safety, it is still important and necessary that you have at least one supervisor present at the site at all times. The supervisor will then be responsible for making sure that everyone on site is following the safety standards, and then enforce them wherever they feel necessary. They will make sure to watch and monitor all the employees, write down their concerns and observations, and reportback to you at the end of the day.

• Development of practices that can help to improve that help enhance the safety of workers should always be encouraged, and safety protocols should always be reviewed and tried to improve upon. So, the promotion of innovations in the safety aspect on construction sites should be a venture that must be pursued.