|
|
xi | |
|
|
xiii | |
|
|
xiv | |
Preface |
|
xv | |
Acknowledgements |
|
xvii | |
|
Part A The nature of construction health and safety |
|
|
1 | (32) |
|
|
3 | (3) |
|
The hazardous nature of construction |
|
|
3 | (1) |
|
Health and safety: a paramount consideration |
|
|
3 | (1) |
|
Awareness for construction health and safety |
|
|
4 | (1) |
|
|
4 | (1) |
|
Health and safety management systems |
|
|
4 | (1) |
|
|
5 | (1) |
|
|
5 | (1) |
|
|
6 | (15) |
|
|
6 | (1) |
|
|
6 | (1) |
|
The principal accident statistics |
|
|
7 | (4) |
|
The analysis of fatal accidents within construction |
|
|
11 | (8) |
|
The key causes of construction accidents |
|
|
19 | (1) |
|
|
19 | (1) |
|
|
20 | (1) |
|
3 Recent health and safety statistics |
|
|
21 | (6) |
|
|
21 | (1) |
|
Collection of health and safety statistics in the United Kingdom |
|
|
21 | (2) |
|
International perspective |
|
|
23 | (1) |
|
A view on `health' and safety |
|
|
24 | (1) |
|
|
25 | (1) |
|
|
25 | (2) |
|
4 The cost of construction accidents |
|
|
27 | (6) |
|
|
27 | (1) |
|
The cost of industry failures in health and safety |
|
|
27 | (1) |
|
Construction health and safety costs |
|
|
28 | (1) |
|
The visible and hidden costs of accidents |
|
|
28 | (3) |
|
|
31 | (1) |
|
|
31 | (2) |
|
Part B The framework for health and safety legislation |
|
|
33 | (66) |
|
5 The EC legislative framework for health and safety at work |
|
|
35 | (10) |
|
|
35 | (1) |
|
Development of the European Community |
|
|
35 | (1) |
|
|
36 | (1) |
|
Legislation of the European Union |
|
|
37 | (1) |
|
Institutions of the European Union |
|
|
37 | (2) |
|
Health and safety and its European development |
|
|
39 | (3) |
|
|
42 | (2) |
|
|
44 | (1) |
|
|
44 | (1) |
|
|
44 | (1) |
|
6 The Health and Safety at Work, etc. Act 1974 |
|
|
45 | (14) |
|
|
45 | (1) |
|
The Act and its statutory provisions |
|
|
45 | (1) |
|
Key duties imposed by the Act and key sections relating to the safeguarding of health and safety standards |
|
|
46 | (8) |
|
Liability for breach of health and safety duty |
|
|
54 | (1) |
|
Enforcement of the Act: the institutions |
|
|
55 | (1) |
|
|
56 | (1) |
|
|
57 | (1) |
|
|
58 | (1) |
|
|
58 | (1) |
|
7 The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 |
|
|
59 | (14) |
|
|
59 | (1) |
|
The basis and development of the Regulations |
|
|
59 | (1) |
|
Revocation of the 1992 Regulations and developments brought about by the 1999 Regulations |
|
|
60 | (1) |
|
|
60 | (2) |
|
Employers' and employees' duties |
|
|
62 | (5) |
|
Miscellaneous regulations |
|
|
67 | (3) |
|
Undertaking risk assessment |
|
|
70 | (1) |
|
|
71 | (1) |
|
|
72 | (1) |
|
8 The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994 |
|
|
73 | (14) |
|
|
73 | (1) |
|
Basis and structure of the Regulations |
|
|
73 | (2) |
|
Application of the Regulations |
|
|
75 | (2) |
|
Key requirements of the CDM Regulations |
|
|
77 | (1) |
|
Key features of CDM management |
|
|
77 | (1) |
|
Roles, duties and responsibilities of project participants |
|
|
78 | (3) |
|
Appointment of the planning supervisor, consultants and the principal contractor |
|
|
81 | (3) |
|
Enforcement of the CDM Regulations |
|
|
84 | (1) |
|
|
84 | (1) |
|
Further information on health and safety management |
|
|
85 | (1) |
|
|
85 | (1) |
|
|
86 | (1) |
|
9 The Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996 and associated welfare legislation |
|
|
87 | (12) |
|
|
87 | (1) |
|
The Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996 |
|
|
87 | (5) |
|
The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR) |
|
|
92 | (1) |
|
The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (COSHH) |
|
|
93 | (2) |
|
The Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992 (PPE) |
|
|
95 | (1) |
|
|
96 | (1) |
|
|
96 | (3) |
|
Part C Effective health and safety management |
|
|
99 | (126) |
|
10 Health and safety management within the construction process |
|
|
101 | (3) |
|
|
101 | (1) |
|
The health and safety plan |
|
|
101 | (1) |
|
Health and safety management system |
|
|
102 | (1) |
|
|
103 | (1) |
|
|
103 | (1) |
|
11 Organizational framework |
|
|
104 | (12) |
|
|
104 | (1) |
|
|
104 | (1) |
|
Construction organizations |
|
|
105 | (1) |
|
|
106 | (1) |
|
System and subsystem relationship |
|
|
106 | (3) |
|
Influence of management systems on organizational framework |
|
|
109 | (2) |
|
Subsystems as management support services |
|
|
111 | (1) |
|
Influence of management systems on human resources |
|
|
112 | (1) |
|
Commitment to management systems |
|
|
113 | (1) |
|
|
114 | (1) |
|
|
114 | (2) |
|
12 Management structure and management system |
|
|
116 | (13) |
|
|
116 | (1) |
|
|
116 | (2) |
|
|
118 | (1) |
|
Link between management structure and the system |
|
|
118 | (1) |
|
Documented (formal) system |
|
|
119 | (2) |
|
Health and safety management subsystem |
|
|
121 | (6) |
|
Prerequisites to management subsystem development |
|
|
127 | (1) |
|
|
128 | (1) |
|
|
128 | (1) |
|
|
129 | (7) |
|
|
129 | (1) |
|
The importance of people to the organization |
|
|
129 | (1) |
|
|
130 | (1) |
|
Influences upon employee attitudes |
|
|
130 | (1) |
|
|
131 | (2) |
|
Behavioural safety management |
|
|
133 | (1) |
|
|
133 | (1) |
|
Behavioural safety audits |
|
|
134 | (1) |
|
|
134 | (1) |
|
|
135 | (1) |
|
|
136 | (10) |
|
|
136 | (1) |
|
|
136 | (1) |
|
|
136 | (2) |
|
|
138 | (5) |
|
The importance of the health and safety policy |
|
|
143 | (1) |
|
|
144 | (1) |
|
|
144 | (2) |
|
|
146 | (9) |
|
|
146 | (1) |
|
The principal contractor's organization for health and safety management |
|
|
146 | (1) |
|
Health and safety advice and supervision |
|
|
146 | (1) |
|
The role of the corporate health and safety manager/adviser |
|
|
147 | (2) |
|
The role of the project health and safety supervisor |
|
|
149 | (1) |
|
Key elements of effective organization |
|
|
150 | (3) |
|
|
153 | (1) |
|
|
154 | (1) |
|
|
154 | (1) |
|
|
155 | (16) |
|
|
155 | (1) |
|
Risk assessment technique |
|
|
155 | (4) |
|
|
159 | (6) |
|
The principal contractor's role |
|
|
165 | (5) |
|
|
170 | (1) |
|
|
170 | (1) |
|
|
171 | (13) |
|
|
171 | (1) |
|
Planning for health and safety |
|
|
171 | (1) |
|
The health and safety plan |
|
|
172 | (1) |
|
The pre-tender health and safety plan |
|
|
173 | (1) |
|
The construction health and safety plan |
|
|
173 | (1) |
|
The health and safety file |
|
|
174 | (1) |
|
Developing the pre-tender health and safety plan |
|
|
174 | (4) |
|
Developing the construction phase health and safety plan |
|
|
178 | (3) |
|
Health and safety plan examples |
|
|
181 | (1) |
|
The health and safety plan and management on site |
|
|
181 | (1) |
|
|
182 | (1) |
|
|
183 | (1) |
|
|
184 | (22) |
|
|
184 | (1) |
|
The principal contractor's health and safety management system |
|
|
184 | (20) |
|
|
204 | (1) |
|
|
204 | (2) |
|
|
206 | (6) |
|
|
206 | (1) |
|
Safety management auditing |
|
|
206 | (1) |
|
|
207 | (2) |
|
|
209 | (1) |
|
|
210 | (2) |
|
20 A future perspective of construction health and safety: Towards an integrated system for managing project safety, quality and environment |
|
|
212 | (13) |
|
|
212 | (1) |
|
Management specialization |
|
|
213 | (1) |
|
Management support services |
|
|
213 | (1) |
|
Quality management systems |
|
|
214 | (1) |
|
Safety management systems |
|
|
214 | (1) |
|
Environmental management systems |
|
|
215 | (1) |
|
Purpose, structure and characteristics of quality, safety and environmental systems |
|
|
215 | (2) |
|
Compatibility of the systems |
|
|
217 | (1) |
|
|
218 | (1) |
|
Towards an integrated management system |
|
|
218 | (4) |
|
|
222 | (3) |
|
|
225 | (46) |
|
I Council Directive of 12 June 1989 on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers at work (89/391/EEC) |
|
|
227 | (12) |
|
II Planning supervisor's pre-tender health and safety plan |
|
|
239 | (22) |
|
III Principal contractor's construction health and safety plan |
|
|
261 | (10) |
Select bibliography |
|
271 | (2) |
Index |
|
273 | |