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On-site safety – balancing theory and practice

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  1. I look forward to the results of the Laing O’Rourke initiative and hope it is widely published. The current trend, supported by the article, is to rely so much on process and procedures which in essence means paper work and this is for me the problem. More and more paperwork takes away the real health & safety message for me which is peoples attitude and perceptions to the risk. Like air bags, ABS and traction control in cars, people rely on these aids to negate their responsibility. We need to engage more with the people on the sites not turn them off by issuing reams of paper. In addition we need to look at why they make some of the choices they make and the simple answer is that senior management talk a lovely job yet often do not supply the right equipment or time to carry out the works. As a project manager I come across this situation many times, teams trying to rush through the job as they have to be somewhere else or arrive with in adequate plant to carry out the works safely. Safety really does need to start at the top, that is the client and the companies allowing sufficient time and monies to carry out the works safely.

  2. Is it not policy that every member of staff or employee is trained to Health and Safety standards before they are allowed on site and wear proof of that qualification? or is that only a paper transaction.

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