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Maintaining health and safety in an office can be a difficult task but what about a construction site? The scope for danger and accidents is far higher and given the conditions of the site and the machinery involved, there is the potential for serious accidents to occur. This is why enforcing health and safety on a worksite is hugely important and everyone must play their part to ensure safety is guaranteed.
Staff training is a big factor in ensuring safety occurs in all workplaces but again, it is even more important in a construction site. Before a worker is allowed on site, they must be able to indicate they have safety awareness for a work site and many companies will carry out their own training session for staff at the commencement of employment. Another factor in maintaining health and safety in the workplace revolves around equipment like hard hats, steel toe-capped boots and hi-vis gear to ensure people can be seen and have a level of protection if anything does happen.
As most work sites will be exposed to the conditions, floods and pools of rain water can quickly emerge. If these pools are deeper than people think they are, accidents can easily occur. This can affect people walking and falling into the hole or even people driving on site having their truck or vehicle fall into the hole. It is important to maintain checks on all flooded areas and ensure that all pools of water are verified for depth. If the pool of water is of excessive depth, the area should be roped or taped off to prevent people from slipping down into it.
A quick check of the area and then roping the area off can make it so much safer to use and prevent any accidents from occurring. People can suffer serious injuries, including leg breaks and vehicles can be written off if they fall into areas covered by surface water. The financial cost of these accidents to the firm can be astronomical so if any level of prevention can be carried out, it needs to be undertaken.
The general level of safety on a worksite can be improved by ensuring that first aid kits and salt spreaders are available (the latter particularly during the winter months), hi-vis protective clothing is worn and that safety signs are placed around the site reminding staff and visitors of their duties and requirements. Retaining awareness of the surroundings is essential to remaining safe and a firm must do everything it can to keep staff focused on their safety at all times.
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