Question

1. You are employed as an assistant project manager for a large firm that specializes in the construction of commercial buildings throughout the Southeast. You recently finished work on a large bank building in Birmingham, Alabama, and are now working in the main office in Atlanta where you are heavily involved in estimating.

The company is very safety conscious. This awareness is reflected in the firm’s injury incidence rate which is about 1/6th of the national average for this type of construction.

A three-day safety class was offered and you asked your supervisor whether you could participate in the course as a company representative. This request was approved. Upon your return, you circulated the notebook that you received at the class around the office for everyone to read. Your boss reviewed the notebook and called you into his office to talk. The following conversation took place:

“I see that the safety course you attended devoted a lot of time to the

subject of the direct and indirect costs of injuries,” says your boss.

You respond, “Yes, we got a lot of good information about the costs of injuries.”

Your boss says, “We always knew that injuries were costly in terms of

both direct and indirect costs. Why do you think we focus on safety so

much? Why do you think the company would pay $850 to send you to this

course?! So how much time did the class spend on indirect costs?”

You answer, “I suppose we spent about 3 hours on it.”

Your boss then says, “Well, all of this is well and good, but I don’t see how

we can use this information. I want you to sit down and think about this

stuff on direct and indirect costs. I want to know just how you think we

might be able to benefit from this. Put it in writing! Put in on one page!

Give me something we can use!”

You walk out of your boss’ office thinking about what to write. You sit down at your

desk and prepare a description for your boss.

On one page, describe how knowledge of the direct and indirect costs of worker

injuries/fatalities can be used for construction projects, especially with regard to:

1. estimating,
2. bids for future projects,
3. and productivity.

please answer the question

Safety engineering

Answer 1

Identify the biggest risks that drive incidents on the site. Each worksite is different. Each presents its own hazards and challenges. Look at the incident and near-miss history at short-term work projects similar to the one you’re about to embark on. What exposures drove those incidents? What behaviors contributed to them? Make a list of these items and make sure you’re always addressing them.

Educate your workers so they can educate their peers. Peer learning not only prevents safety principles from being just top-down edicts, it also promotes mastery of the subject matter by your workers. The repetition of observing and coaching by the supervisors, in my example, made each of the safety principles we taught them that much more part of the daily routine on the job.

Change the climate first. In short-term work projects, you typically don’t have the luxury of time to make big changes. Time allows cultures to evolve, and cultures ultimately drive long-term safety results. So, your main focus in short-term work projects should be creating the right climate for safety. That means reducing exposures before all else.

Estimates the cost of safety:- The cost for safety purpose are taken in to account as 2.5 percent of direct labour cost. And in other the 0.625 percent of total project cost.

The safety cost is the cost for safety purpose of the labour and workers works at site. This cost is additional cost for any project but it is very important to taking in to account. Because if any case the worker were injured at site the safety cost is separately use for health of site workers. It is beneficial to our project because where labours are not easily found and some how the site workers are injured so the new labour or site workers are too expensive for any project and most importantly the health of labour takes first priority in the project cost.

And if the numbers of workers injured at site is more. The cost of project is already increase because the project work is suddenly stopped at that momentm so the cost for safety of labours are most important part of a project.when the cost is estimated already the productivity of project is increased because the workers are treated at site and project is continue.