Prepared by :Samar Issam MustafaHanan Basem QadanFatima Ghassan Sharaqa

Supervisor:Dr. Barraq Jumaa

ContentsSafety training

House keeping

Personal protective equipment

ContentsScaffolding and fall protection

Excavation

Confined space

Fire safety

Objective

Our objective is to present this project as a proposed policy (manual) for safety in construction site.

Scope

Safety scope is not to prevent accidents but to reduce accidents.

The best way to do so is to follow the right procedure during the construction process, and to prepare risk assessment for each activity before carrying it out.

In this research our information have been collected through reading and through visits to several projects in our country Palestine and through observations.

Methodology

Introduction

We can define safety as the condition or state of being safe, freedom from danger or hazard, being far from hurt, injury, or loss.

Introduction

The situation of safety in construction sites in Palestine is bad, the percentage of accidents in construction sites reaches 24% of all accidents of the other 10 commercial sectors in Palestine according to Palestinian labor office for the year 2011 until April,2012.

IF NO RIGHT ACTION IS TAKEN, THE SITUATION WILL GET WORSE

Chapter1Training program

Safety training program

Building and improving

the common sense

Care for an injured or infected person

Whose responsibility

is it?

Chapter 2 Housekeeping

House keeping

Prevent minor injuries

Prevent major accidents

Increase job productivity

Advantages of good housekeeping:

House keeping

*Hazard: There is a falling material hazard to the public, Storage of material is within 6 feet from a second store opening, this area must be surrounded with a safety net.

House keeping

*Safe: Safety net is placed to protect public from falling material hazards, it can also hold workers if they face a falling hazard.

House keeping

*Hazard: Poor housekeeping may cause injuries because of thrown materials.

Chapter 3Personal protective equipment (PPE)

Personal protective equipment

Clothing Head protection

Eye protection

Personal protective equipment

Foot protection

Hand protection

Lungs protection

Body protection from falling hazards

Personal protective equipment

*Safe: good eye protection and good head protection.

*Safe: keeping on the grinder protection while using it.

Personal protective equipment

*Hazard: poor head protection, hat with holes is not acceptable , it's the time for a new one.Every hat has an expiration date if it is not fractured or cracked for 3 years.

Personal protective equipment

*Safe: wearing lather extended boot when being directly exposed to concrete.

Scaffolding and fall protection

Chapter 4

Scaffolding and fall protection

Scaffolding main parts

Scaffolding and fall protection

• Ensure the footing for scaffolds are rigid, and capable of carrying the maximum intended load without settling or displacement. Do not use unstable objects such as boxes, loose bricks or concrete blocks to support scaffolds.

•  Ledgers are spaced vertically not more than 2.1m apart.

Some of safety rules in Scaffolding

Scaffolding and fall protection

• Inspection and Tagging the scaffolds• Timber platforms should contain two layers of

wooden(timber) boards with a minimum thickness of 5 cm.

• Toe boards which are at least 150 mm high from the level of the scaffold platform and are so affixed that no space exists between the toe boards and the scaffold platform 

Some of safety rules in Scaffolding

Scaffolding and fall protection

*Safe: Safe access to reach the scaffolds platforms. *Hazard: Fall of material and equipment hazard because the Toe board is not affixed to the bottom of the platform, see (4.3.c).

Scaffolding and fall protection

*Hazard: weak connection leads to less protection and possible failure of this area.

*Hazard: missing of inspection and tagging of the scaffolds if it's safe to be used or not.

Scaffolding and fall protection

*Hazard: falling hazard from the roof of a five stories building.

Chapter5 Excavation

Excavation Excavation planning consideration

* insure a safe work place for not only the work crew but vehicular and pedestrian traffic as well.

*Determination of the location of underground utilities.

*Consideration of confined space hazard possibilities.

*Use of appropriate safety clothing and equipment.

*Adherence to standards or other safe work practices.

Safety

Excavation

*Where to park the equipment.

*Where to excavate.

*Where to place the backfill material.

*Method of securing the excavation.

Practicality

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Public relations

Excavation planning consideration

Excavation

Ways to spell safe

Slopping Shoring

Excavation

Slopping

Excavation

*Safe: the excavation was implemented on 90 degrees since this soil is considered to be stable rock.

Chapter6Confined space

Confined Space

Confined space Definition :OSHA defines a confined space as “any space having a limited means of egress, which is subjected to accumulation of toxic or flammable contaminants or has an oxygen deficient atmosphere”.

Confined Space

* Escape from such areas may be very difficult in emergency situations.

* Oxygen deficient Atmospheres.

*Toxic atmosphere.

* Flammable atmospheres.

Confined Space

*Safe : Wearing personal fall arrest system through working in a confined space.

Chapter 7Fire Safety

Fire Safety

Storage, Ventilation

Electricity , smoking,

cutting and welding

Fire safety

Hazard: *Hazard: electrical cable laid in wet area makes hazard of fire or explosion.  

Fire safety

*Hazard: flammable material reserved in open space direct to sunlight

Recommendation

1.To adopt this project as a manual for safety rules in construction sites.

2.To apply the training program in every construction site even if it's only submitted 15 minutes every day.

3.Asking for competent supervisors of insurance companies to monitor applying safety rules hand by hand with contractors companies and owners.

 

Remember

Safety doesn't mean a hat and a vest it's about

culture and education it's also about training and

developing human skills.