Construction Work Safety

Construction Sector is very essential and an integral part of infrastructure development which gives tremendous boost to our country’s economy. The construction industry has registered enormous growth worldwide in recent years. Although the development of technology is rapid in most of the sectors, construction work is still labour intensive. In India the construction sector employs around 33 million people, which is next to agriculture. The construction workers are one of the most Vulnerable Segment of the unorganized labour in our country. Workers being exposed to wide variety of serious OHS hazards, the rate of fatal accidents in this industry is 4 to 5 times that of the manufacturing sector.

Accidents in construction projects in many countries are of important issue to handle. The phenomena makes the construction industry has a bag image of risky place of accidents. The nature of construction project itself has potential hazards of accidents since its uniqueness, open space, exposure to weather, involving many unskilled labors, tight schedule of short targeted project duration, workers turn over and working at height, confined space and psychologically and physically vulnerably working environment.

This book identifies the essential tasks for achieving healthy and safe environment at construction sites. The report will help to identify hazards and control risks also to plan, organise, control, monitor and review health and safety of the workers and employees throughout the life of a project.