Occupational Safety and Health Management in Construction Industry

Managing occupational safety and health risks at the planning and design stage is often more effective, easier to sustain, and cheaper to achieve than making changes later, when the hazards become real risks in the workplace.

Our Occupational Safety and Health Management in the Construction Industry training provides practical guidance to the client, designer, and contractor on the management of safety, health, and welfare when carrying out construction projects on a structure.

This training is for people with legal duties under the Occupational Safety and Health Act and the Factories and Machinery Act. These include clients, designers, and contractors. It explains what they must or should do to comply with the law and recommends duties for them in order to manage their projects. Any actions taken should always be proportionate to the risks in the construction project.

Responsibility for occupational safety and health in construction is shared among all stakeholders in the industry’s supply chain. Stakeholders such as clients, designers, and contractors should work together to design occupational safety and health hazards out of the construction industry’s processes and products.

By working together, they should identify and eliminate or reduce, as far as is reasonably practicable, all foreseeable design risks to the safety or health of any person.

Training Contents

The training should cover, but not be limited to, the objectives below:

• Manage the risks by applying the risk management approach and general principles of prevention;

• Appoint the right people and organizations at the right time.

• Ensure that everyone involved in the construction project has the information, instruction, training, and supervision they need to carry out their jobs in a way that secures safety and health;

• Coordinate resources and programs for duty holders cooperating and communicating with each other and coordinating their work; and

• Establish relationships with workers and engage with them to promote and develop effective measures to secure safety, health, and welfare.