Safety Is The Top Of Everyone 's Mind

All employees of Robinson’s Excavation are valued members of the organization which is why safety must always come first. The construction industry is traditionally a hazardous work environment, but with vigilance, dedication, and training, the dangers can be significantly reduced. In order to provide the employees of Robinson’s Excavation with a safe work environment, all employees, regardless of status, are required to follow and enforce all safety procedures, which are not all inclusive. Additionally, the following protocol is in compliance with all state and federal OHSA regulations.

The workers at a construction site have almost no control over the amount or type of safety equipment that is used, or the safety protocols in place on the job site. They're at the mercy of a manager, owner or boss who decides what procedures and equipment to

If there is 'high risk' construction works, obtaining safe work method statements for all such work. High risk work includes, but is not limited to, working at heights where the fall is greater than 2 metres, demolition,

Management in healthcare institutions obtains presentations that pertain to workers’ injuries and illness costs. The figures acquire adequate support from the management provided that the data cites credible and the right references. However, researchers lack adequate hard data and research backing to defend direct and indirect cost ratios that they frequently utilize in relation to the safety-related literature.

In the article “ As New York’s Construction Industry Booms, Workers’ Lives Are Being Put on the Line” which points out the risky occupation of the construction due to the employer provide the defective facilities to workers. Employers are concentrated on earning the money and irresponsible to the workers compensation-occupational safety and health.

According to the Bureau of Labor, statistics indicate that more than 4.1 million people were hurt or injured on-the-job in 2006 and 5,488 were killed in 2007 (Gomez-Mejia, Balkin, & Cardy, 2010, p. 511). Laws and regulatory requirements are currently in place to standardize and promote workplace safety. Organizations with extensive safety programs have reduced number of accidents, decreased workers’ compensation claims and lawsuits and lesser accident-related expenditures (Gomez-Mejia, et al, 2010, p. 511). This paper discusses the effects of legal, safety and regulatory requirements in

HERITAGE Construction Company has made safety priority one since its inception in 1993 dedicated to the protection of its employees from on-the-job injuries. All employees of HERITAGE Construction Company have the responsibility to work safely on the job. The purpose of the plan is to supplement our existing safety and health program and to ensure that every employee who works for HERITAGE Construction Company recognizes workplace fall hazards and takes the

Brain injuries are detrimental to the human psyche and if traumatic enough, then it can also be detrimental to daily function. As horrible as it seems “Approximately 75% of traumatic brain injuries seen in emergency departments are mild cases. Annually approximately 70,000 people who have TBI experience permanent damage” (Your Best Resource for Brain Injury). Brain injuries are common and can be permanent. People receive trauma to the brain quite often; there are a lot of athletes who are suffering from these injuries and it has become too broad of an amount of people who are suffering from brain injuries. From mild concussions to Traumatic Brain Injuries, brain trauma is very important to pay attention to. Brain injuries can be so dangerous that it ends up in death or some variation of life skill impairment. There is a career that evaluates brain behavior after these injuries--Neuropsychologists. As a neuropsychologist, they evaluate the relationship between human behaviors and the brain. Neuropsychologists use test and assessments to evaluate brain injuries, although some tests may be invalid due to the test taker; this is common in sports because the athletes just want to continue to play and get back to the game.

More fatal injuries in construction resulted from slips, falls, and trips than from any other events from 2011-2015, which implied that the lack of appropriate employee training might be another cause of the high fatality count. One example was when a worker lost his footing when climbing down a 400-foot telecommunication tower, the ladder safety device did not activate to stop the employee’s fall, he plunged 90 feet to his death (USDoL). The causes of his death were inadequate training on the ladder safety device he used and the defective safety sleeve that failed to save him when he fell. Another example, four construction workers were killed when the north-east side of a parking garage under construction collapsed. OSHA issued citations to the five construction firms involved in the project for “failing to provide workers a workplace free from recognized hazards causing or likely to cause deaths or serious physical harms.”

In the United States, construction has always been one of the most dangerous industries to work in. The number of fatalities that occur in this industry year after year demonstrate this. In 2014, 19.6% of worker fatalities, in private industry, were in construction (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2015) despite the industry comprising only 6.8% of the total work force. This epidemic is not unique to the United States. Essentially every country faces similar problems regarding construction safety. For example, in 2004 the Australian construction industry employed approximately 8% of the countries workforce. However, workers compensation statistics indicated that the industry’s incidence rate was 28.6 per 1000 employees,

Managing Occupational safety and health in the construction industry is difficult to manage for various reasons. The ever-changing environment, a persistently varying workforce and the various building methods utilized by the industry complicate safety measures. Those in the construction industry often view safety as problematic and as result safety solutions are only applied to the minimum limit allowed by law. A common outlook in the

Contractors are responsible for the safety of their employees and the people near or at the work place. Part of their job is to ensure that equipment, materials, and the work environment is safe as well as make sure that the guidelines are being followed. In a construction site, it is important to be cautious around heavy equipment and power tools. When operating equipment while working at a construction site, protecting your body is very necessary. Creating a good work environment is also very important. This means all of the construction workers work together and looks out for one another to make sure the job is done right. These topics will be further explained.

Safety is important and seeing people all over the place with guns will make you feel uncomfortable. Guns on campus would lead to people not feeling safe, it will increase the suicides by college students, and would distract others from learning. Giving students the right to have a concealed handgun is like giving students the pink slip to just kill any and everyone, having a car is not safe on a college campus.

Despite undeniable efforts investing in safety and health within the workplace, occupational accidents continue to account for injuries and deaths every year (Cadieux et al, 2006). In Quebec alone in the year of 2004, 176 deaths and 128,104 occupational injuries were registered by the National OHS board (Cadieux et al, 2006). In order to improve these rates worldwide, Occupational Health and Safety Management systems are developed and implemented in the workplace.

Fall accidents have been determined to be the single main cause of injuries and fatalities in the construction industry in the United States. The numbers of construction related fatalities from falls have declined between the years of 2006 through 2010, but the problem of falls consumes one third of the construction industry work related fatalities. Construction related falls is at the top of the OSHA list of fatal four. Even with the staggering numbers involving construction and falls there has been little evidence to show any decline in construction site falls. To go one step farther an employers duty to provide fall protection is the most often cited violation during the author’s research period of 2012 and 2013 based on OSHA statistics cited by the writer (Siddiqui, 2014).