Fred Sherratt 
Unpacking Construction Site Safety [PDF ebook] 

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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
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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

عن المؤلف

Fred Sherratt Ph D MCIOB C.Build E MCABE FHEA has worked in the UK construction industry for over 13 years, starting as a site secretary and working up through the ranks, via the planning function, to site management. She is now a researcher and Senior Lecturer in Construction Management at Anglia Ruskin University.
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