Safety Challenges in Construction Industry - A SHEQ Out
Keywords:
SHEQ-PDCM, Conscientiousness, Learning for Risk Abatement, Improvement of people focus for safetyAbstract
This paper evaluates essentially the safety challenges to the construction industry reviewing instances of failures and desperation from ground realities. Towards abatement of risks and safety hazards the preventive practices as per ISO 45001 are suggested in preference to the control documentation as prescribed in OHS&MS 18001. The process of Management of Change to a situation of total abatement is reviewed, for which competency need for learning has been prescribed. The need for managing processes and alignment w.r.t handling of safety issues using an ab-initio approach has been modeled, maintain due focus on Leadership, Strategies, and Customer, around the system thinking paradigm.
How to cite this article: Thareja P. Safety Challenges in Construction Industry - A SHEQ Out. J Adv Res Qual Control Mgmt 2019; 4(1): 33-43.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24321/2582.3280.201906
Analyzing the processes, it is recommended to appropriately evaluate the preventative options, as governed by should- can-will- do approach to strategically plan the responses, and considered potent will be attempted for successful consummation.
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3. Raghavan N et al. Lementing Lean Concepts On Indian Construction Sites: Organisational Aspects And Lessons Learned, People, Culture and Change, Proceedings IGLC-22, June 2014 |Oslo, Norway 1181- 1190 https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/39bb/ 84f557 1ca0f2638042cd3dd7445469d6f9a4.pdf
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52. Ellis G, Weekes T. Making sustainability ‘real’: using group-enquiry topromote education for sustainable development. Environ Educ Res 2008; 14: 482- 500.
53. Wilson A, Lenssen G, Hind P. Leadership Qualities and Management Competencies for Corporate Responsibility. Ashridge, United Kingdom 2006.
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55. Thareja P. Manufacturing Paradigms in 2010. Proceedings of National Conference on Emerging trends in Manufacturing Systems, JMIT, Radaur, March 15-16, 2005. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn. com/abstract=2190326 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ ssrn.2190326
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57. Thareja P, Thareja P. Sustainability In Plywood Manufacturing Industry National Conference on Emerging trends in Manufacturing Systems JMIT, Radaur 15th 16th March 05.
58. James Bessen Workers Don’t Have the Skills They Need and They Know It September 17, 2014, https:// hbr.Org/2014/09/workers-dont-have-the-skills-theyneed-and-they-know-it.
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