Sunday 10 March 2013

Safety Requirements for People and Equipment on Construction Site


Construction SafetyThe Contractor must buy insurance for workers, employees, equipments of the Contractor and then submit them to the Engineer prior to commence constructions. Workers who work at Site have met sufficiently following requirements:
  • Old enough as regulated by the Government for each career• .
  • Good health certificates are issued by authorized health organizations as required. They are checked health periodically at least once per year: in case they work in height locations, water, hemetic tunnels, or dust and hot places, harmful places, they must be checked health by regulated health organizations. It is not allowed to assign women having pregnance or babies under 9-month age, people being sick (heart, deaf, bad-eyesigh….) or under 18-year-old chidren for above mentioned works.
  • Have training and testing certificates that prove their achievements on safety in compliance with each careeer and approved by the company’s directors.
  • To be equipped sufficiently personal protective equipments/devices as regulated by working procedure.
It is forbidden to drink beer, alcohol before and during working. When working in high locations, deep tunnels or harmful places, it is forbidden to drink beer, alcohol and smoking.
Workers working in high locations and in deep tunnels must have tool bags. It is forbidden to throw tools, devices to the ground. Only workers who can swim, are allowed to work in river and sufficient boats, lifebuoys and necessary apparatus for first aid as regulated working procedure.
For divers, it is required to implement sufficiently procedures on working, compensating, allowance and health regime.
All boats, lifebuoys and other health apparatus must be inspected in order to ensure the quality prior to use them. Workers working at Site must use appropriately all personally protective equipments granted. It is not allowed to go by sandals, or wooden shoes and they must dress neatly.
When working in over 2-meter places or not reaching that height but many obstacles underneath, workers must be equipped safety ropes or safety protective net in case that there is no working slab with safety baluster.
Construction technicians must instruct how to hang safety ropes for workers. Workers are not allowed to work if they have not been attached with the safety ropes. It is not permitted to construct on two or more floors in the same vertical directions if no protective equipments are installed for workers underneath.
It is not permitted to work on scaffoldings, chimmeys, water caps, electrical columns, bridge’s piers or girders, roof of two-storey buildings, etc, when it is dark, heavy rains, rainstorms, thunders or over 5-grade winds.
After each storm, strong winds, whirlwinds or after suspending constructions for many continuous days, it is required to check safety conditions prior to re-start constructions, especially dangerous places that accidents may happen.
Lighting systems are arranged sufficiently on site for transporting roads, paths and areas that are constructed in the night time. It is forbidden to work in areas that are not installed lighting systems.
When constructing high-location projects, it must have anti-thunder system following current regulations. On site, there must have enough facilities for daily activities, sanitaries for workers such as dispensaries, dining rooms, napping tents, shacks, shelters from raining and shining, places for taking showers, going to stools, monthly periods, etc.
It is required to provide drinking water for workers on site. Drinking water must be met hygiene requirements. Water tank must be tightly covered, faucets or separate water ladles, and drinking glasses or cups .
It is required to have safety diary recording all incidents, accidents, overcoming countermeasures and solutions during constructions, proposals for safety instructed by labor members and investigation members, site safety supervisors’ in order to implement strictly site reports, statistics on labour accidents, occupacional diseases.

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