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Unpacking Construction Site Safety provides a different perspective of safety in practice. • examines how useful the concept of safety actually is to the development of effective management interventions • providing new insights and information to the audience, and assist in a more informed development of new approaches in practice • aimed at safety and construction management practitioners as well as academics
Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xv
1 Introduction 1
References 4
2 Construction Site Contexts 5
Winning Work 6
Subs of Subs of Subs 8
The Workforce 9
Working Conditions 13
Never work a day in your life ... 13
Construction Site Life 14
References 17
3 Safety and Society 21
The Media and its Myths 22
(Mis-)Interpreting the Legislation 25
Where there's blame ... 28
Safety and Society and Construction Sites 31
Understanding People 32
References 42
4 Safety in Construction 47
Measuring Safety: Accidents and Statistics 48
Cause and Effect 51
Safety Management Systems 55
Competence 58
Training 61
Personal Protective Equipment 66
References 73
5 Just a Bit Unsafe? 77
The Legislative Lexicon 77
Safe/Unsafe 83
Safety and Unsafety 88
Safety and Risk 94
Acknowledgements 104
References 104
6 Safety versus Work and Work versus Safety 107
The Non-Productive 107
Segregation and Integration 111
Problems of Production 114
Production in Practice 116
References 121
7 Engagement and Enforcement 123
Engaging with Safety 124
Safety Propaganda 129
Enforcing Safety 134
Rules Made to be Broken? 138
A Hierarchy of Safety: Responsibility and Ownership 142
Acknowledgements 148
References 148
8 Counting Down to Zero 151
Target Zero: Theories and Thinking 152
Brand Zero 156
Zero in Practice 159
Measuring Zero: Non-Accident Statistics 161
Achieving Zero 163
Acknowledgements 169
References 169
9 Constructing Safety on Sites 171
What is Safety on Site? 172
Site Safety Culture 177
Putting it into Practice 181
References 187
10 Reflections 189
Index 191
