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
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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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