John Reynolds

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• John Reynolds
• (John.Reynolds_at_port.ac.uk)
• Administrative Careers
• Industrial Placements
• Postgraduate provision
• Lecturing Construction/Management
• Health Safety
• Environmental

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Health Safety in Construction
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• What is a Civil Engineer or Construction Manager
  ?
• What is their area of work ?
• Who employs them ?
• What do they really do ?

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• Definition of Civil Engineering (1828)
• The art of directing the great resources of
  power in nature for the use and convenience of
  mankind

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Provide Amenities for Society

• Shelter
• Structures, Foundations
• Health
• Drinking water, Sanitation, Water resources.
• Transportation
• Roads, bridges,Rail, Airports, Docks etc.
• Energy
• Dams, Oil, Gas, Tidal, Wind
• Environment
• Environmental Impact, Coastal protection, River
  Mgt.,Contaminated land

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Involved in every stage of a project

• Employed by one of three types of organisation

Client
Consultant
Contractor
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The Client

• Identifies need for scheme provides finance
• Overall HS responsibility
• Typical examples
• Central government
• Local government
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Nationalised privatised bodies
• Private developers

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The Consultant

• Identifies best option for client needs designs
  / manages the project.
• Must design for HS during construction,
  maintenance and demolition
• Typical work
• Feasibility studies options, costs, E.I.
• Site investigation
• Detailed design
• Contract documentation specification,
  measurement
• Project management resources, planning

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The Contractor

• Constructs project on site
• For large projects usual to have a main
  contractor and specialist sub-contractors
• Main contractor
• Health Safety during construction
• Environment
• Setting out
• Management of plant, labour materials
• Contract planning
• Cost control

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Health Safety in Construction
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Introduction

• Construction is a service industry
• Our priority objectives are
• SAFETY
• Quality
• Service
• Doing things right first time zero defects
• Safety is everybodys commitment

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Safety is about YOU
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Managing Health Safety

• Identify the RISK
• Assess the likelihood of risk occurring
• Assess the consequences
• Manage the risk
• Part of everyday life

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The Project Cycle
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Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth

• Designed for safe
• Construction
• Use by public
• Maintenance
• Demolition

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Construction Safety

• For 20 years experience on a construction site in
  the UK
• 1 in 600 chance of being killed
• 1 in 18 chance of a major accident
• 1 in 3 chance of a reportable accident

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Legal requirements

• Construction has many laws related to Health,
  Safety Welfare
• The main legislation dates back to the Health and
  Safety at Work Act 1974
• Employers must provide
• Safe access
• Safe place of work
• Safe system of work

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Legal requirements (cont.)

• Employees and self employed must protect all
  third parties
• Employees and self employed must care for the
  safety of themselves and others
• This last point is that YOU must always behave in
  a safe manner and must wear protective clothing
  where appropriate

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Accident

• An accident is an undesired and unplanned event,
  mainly caused by human error and/or high risk
  conditions, that results in or has the potential
  for physical harm to persons and/or damage to
  property and/or interruption of business.

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• Gerrads Cross June 2005
• Tunnel being constructed over live rail line
  collapsed during construction. No injuries. Major
  rail disruption. Cost 8.5m

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Typical problems

• Alpha Sleep
• We cannot stay alert 100 of the time
• Naturally lapses in alertness (driving ?)
• Increased risk of accident
• Need to keep labs etc tidy in order to reduce
  risks

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Typical problems

• Time vs. Risk
• We take time vs. risk decisions every day
  (driving ?)
• There is a relationship between time/risks and
  accidents, particularly in lifting or carrying
  and slips/trips/falls
• People make more bad time/risks decisions when
  they feel under pressure

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Typical problems

• Habit forming
• Good and bad habits are formed from experience
• Habits go into the subconscious mind and become
  the right way of carrying out a task
• Bad habits are repeated until the error is
  pointed out and corrected. Until then bad habits
  can form a major safety risk.

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Summary

• Construction is one of the most dangerous
  industries in which to work, with many injuries
  and fatalities each year
• HS is given high priority, with laid down
  standards of behaviour and protective wear
• Infringement of HS usually results in instant
  dismissal for employees and fines for employers

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Our Courses

• All courses in the Dept. include work which
  expose students to some of the dangers of the
  construction industry
• Construction site visits
• Surveying
• Geotechnique field trips
• Hydraulics field trips
• Environmental field trips
• Laboratory work

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Our Staff

• Staff will have carried out risk assessments of
  any task students will be involved with.
• If staff see alpha sleep, time risks or bad
  habits amongst students these will be pointed out
  and the student expected to take corrective
  action.
• Although this can be embarrassing IT IS FOR YOUR
  OWN SAFETY

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Our Safety Policy

• It is the students responsibility to ensure that
  they are appropriately dressed for all outdoor
  work
• For ALL outdoor work students must wear Hi-Vis
  jackets/waistcoats
• Safety boots to be worn when advised for lab. and
  fieldwork
• Dept. will provide gloves and goggles where
  required
• Staff will carry out a risk assessment of all
  outdoor/lab. work and advise students of PPE
  requirements
• Any student not properly equipped will be
  prevented from undertaking the fieldwork / lab.
  and suffer the consequences

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Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

• The Dept. will provide eye, ear and hand
  protection where required
• Students must provide
• High Visibility jackets / waistcoats
• Head protection (Hard hats)
• Protective footwear (Steel toecaps )
• Ensure that all PPE conforms to the appropriate
  British Standard (BS)

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PPE Suppliers

• The Departmental General Office, Ground Floor,
  Portland, has safety hats and Hi-Vis waistcoats
• Sara Band,163 Goldsmith Avenue, Portsmouth PO4
  8BJ large stockist
• Mitgtigarc, 261-253 Milton Road, Southsea PO4 8BJ
• Safeaid, 16Arnside Road, Waterlooville, PO7 7UP
  (Free delivery)
• Many suppliers on www offer delivery to your door

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• Never take drink or drugs while on duty or before
  going on duty

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• Guess who is responsible for YOUR safety ??

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Have a safe day