Question

Hello guys, this is a question scenario regarding a construction safety class, under the civil engineering program, in advance thanks.

1. When, what and who should investigate accidents and why should they be investigated?
2. Robert Martin and Andrew Morgan are construction superintendents for Baker Construction Company (BCC). The home office for BCC is in Orlando, Florida, but the company has projects in 12 states. Each project has its own superintendent. Martin and Morgan are attending a quarterly meeting at the home office with all of the company’s construction superintendents. During a coffee break earlier in the day, they had gotten into a debate over the need for emergency plans. Martin summarized his point of view as follows: “Emergency planning is a waste of time and scarce resources. Chances are less than one in a thousand that an emergency will even occur. But if an emergency situation does occur, all we have to do is call 911.” Morgan disagreed. He summarized his point of view as follows: “We need to have a comprehensive plan for emergency response that is standardized company-wide and that can be easily customized for each job site. Furthermore, we need to drill our employees in the proper execution of the plan until the proper emergency response becomes automatic.” Join this debate. Who is right? Why?

Answer 1

answer: accident investigations on workplace are done by a supervisor, but for more effective results, managers and employees working together are also included, because all of them have different knowledge, understanding and view to the investigation.

investigation is always done after an incident and it should give fruitful report results that would be helpful to prevent such happenings in future in same or different projects.

coming to the debate, according to my opinion Andrew Morgan is absolutely right, that we should always have an emergency plan.

Yes, hazards can occur in rare conditions only but if we are ready for such conditions, man and material loss can be prevented up to a great extant. and also all employees should be well aware of such emergency plans for easy execution.

emergency responses are helpful but until they are not reaching the site, it can cause huge loss in the absence of emergency action plan.