Industrial Safety & Welfare Part 01

 

Safety is very important for any construction firm. As Engineers we must consider safety first. It means care about accident earlier and takes some action to avoid damages. It is very important to identified hazards involved in the various operations, which are carried out during the construction phase of project. Some accidents can be fatal and some can results in permanent or partial disable.

Safety precaution have been taken at site in order to avoid unexpected accident. Labours are instructed to use safety instruments which they are working. It may be difficult to find an accident free construction site some of the accidents are fatal and some results in permanent complete or partial. People began to realize that occupational accidents had economic as well as physical consequences unexpected accidents and injuries affected to construction as follows.

• Working time loss by the injured person.
• Working time loss witness and the accidents investigations.
• Production stoppages.
• Work delays.
• Possible legal and other costs.

Reduced output when the injured person is replaced and subsequently when he returns to work to work etc.

General Requirement to Prevent Accident

A safe construction site is one where anyone can go about their normal daily work without under risk. Some important areas of accident prevention would be,

• Providing adequate shoring to trenches.
• Regularly inspecting lifting and transporting equipment and there lifting an arrangements.
• Careful use of tools
• Adequate attention to temporary work
• Safe extent of temporary electrical supply with proper protection a devices
• Detail instruction all site personal
• Insistence on basic safety precaution like helmet, boost, goggles etc.
• The board mentioning “safety first” should be placed every work site.

Safety precaution equipments

There should be safety helmet, goggles, gloves, and boots etc. as available as necessary, Foremen should check whether they are used or not.

Helmet: As a protection against injures to a head from falling or flying objects helmet are used. The workmen must be wear helmet or rubberized hats.

Goggles: As a protection to the eye the goggles of right type should be used while welding or working industry places

Safety belts: Safety belt is necessity if the workmen is working at a great height .It should be sufficiently strong to taken the full weight of the wearer.

Boots: Boots are used for the protection of legs from injury & many cases it is essential for construction workers.

Gloves: Gloves of the various types are available at the site & must be used for protection of hand under difficult circumstances.

Safety nets: site was covered with the safety net to prevent any accident that can be happened to the neighbor. Having all the above plane & pre cautions any one con not say it is safe site.

Traffic Control Devices

In my training period I got a training experience at a road project so in that project we worked at urban areas. So we had to apply traffic controlling device to safety of both labours & pedestrian etc.

Besides road signs, the use of other traffic control devices is of vital importance for the road safety on work sites. Traffic control devices, other than road sings, shall be use to make the work site more conspicuous. To lead the drivers through the work site in an accurate and safe way.

Bellow following description of some useful devices.

Barricade Board

Barricade Boards are provided to indicate the section of the road closed for traffic, and should be placed at the end of the obstruction as well as along the obstruction. The boards should be support on movable stable stands and should be designed such that the boards are detachable when not in use.

 

Barricade board

Direction Board

Direction board may be used temporary at road works to indicate the direction of the road deviation. The direction board shall be black with yellow arrows when used at road work areas. The board should be supported on movable stable stands and should be designed such that the boards are detachable when not in use.

 Direction board

Barricade Tape

Barricade tape may also be used to improve the visibility of a road closure or an obstruction. However, the Barricade tape should not replace. Barricade Board or other physical closure devices for reasons that the tape can easily be removed, and the tape is not reflective. The tape could be used to supplement cones as indicated.

 Barricade tape

Pass This Side

Pass this side sing is used to divert the motorists to the way they have to drive vehicle around road work pass this side sign is usually fix at a short distance ahead the road construction section.

 Pass this side

Men At Work

Men at work sign is used to worn the motorists the men at work ahead of the road. Usually men at work sign board is fixed at seventy five meters ahead of the men working place. This sign board must be fixed clearly visible manner to the motorists.

 Men at work

 

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INDUSTRIAL SAFETY & WELFARE  Part 02