Managing Safety and Health: Construction

Construction is a high-hazard industry that has a wide range of activities involving the alteration, and/or repair. Examples include residential and commercial building construction, bridge erection, roadway paving, excavations, demolitions, and large-scale painting jobs.

Construction workers engage in many activities that may expose them to serious hazards, such as falling from rooftops, unguarded machinery, being struck by heavy construction equipment, electrocutions, silica dust, and asbestos.

This course is an introduction to the Construction Safety Management System (CSMS), working with contractors, and worksite analysis.

The information, tools, and resources provided in this course are designed to help you, whether you're a worker or an employer, to identify, reduce, and eliminate construction-related hazards.

Like all construction companies, you need to tailor your CSMS to your own specific work operations and work environments.

Effective safety culture and CSMS have the following primary elements:

• leadership and accountability
• involvement and communications
• worksite analysis
• hazard identification, prevention, and control
• education and training
• evaluation and continuous improvement

The standards apply to:

• All contractors enter into contracts that are for construction, alteration, and/or repair, including painting and decorating.
• All subcontractors who agree to perform any part of the labor or material requirements of a contract.
• All suppliers who furnish any supplies or materials, if the work involved is performed on or near a construction site, or if the supplier fabricates the goods or materials specifically for the construction project and the work can be said to be a construction activity.

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