Construction safety is much more than a concern about management or a system of good practices and site control. The actual project nature and site/built-environment in fact can be the main issue. Without understanding the true nature of the job, a what it seems-to-be ideal safety plan can have countless loop-hole that can hardly be implemented in reality in particularly very often time and budget are factors that cannot be ignored.
In general, construction projects can be of building or civil work by job nature. Situations such as the topographic conditions of site, work in very congested environment, work deep underground, work using large amount of heavy components, or any other work environment one can think of, a standard safety plan may far from practicality if just worked out based on general safety principles. Besides, scale of works or the size of the site also makes the works having great differences in handling. Every site, to certain extent, is quite unique. |