Construction industry has been contributing Hong Kong’s development for long times. It is one of the pillars which is important for supporting Hong Kong to be a better place.
There are many large-scaled construction works over history including residential estates, commercial buildings, public utilities and transportation networks. Construction industry can be classified into two sectors: public sector which is mainly the government itself or appointed by government such as Hong Kong Housing Authority. They mainly contribute to the construction of infrastructure such as highways and public residential estates. Private sector which is formed by different private companies such as Sun Hung Kai Properties and Gammon. They mainly contribute to shopping malls and private residential estates.
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After that, they will move to the new construction site. As a result, the contractor or the sub-contractor is not willing or not able to provide training for these temporary workers. The firm may think that it is a waste of money to educate workers about workplace safety. Therefore, this temporary employment practice is one of the cause of the ignorance of the construction site safety by the workers. Besides, usually the construction workers learn their skills through the job. However, they seldom learn about construction site safety from it. As a result, they forgo and ignore the importance of the safety. Then this leads to the high accident rate in the construction site. Low education level of workers is another cause of the high accident rate. As they are not well-educated, the knowledge and the awareness of the construction safety are not instilled properly and adequately, so they are more easily to be exposed to the construction accident, then results in high accident rate in the construction industry compared with other
When we see an economic downturn many of the different industries are affected in different ways depending upon their demand. The industry which always seems to be affected first and the last to recover is the construction industry. The construction industry is one of the largest sectors of the UK’s economy. It contributes around £90billion which is 6.7% of the total and 2.9 million people are employed within the construction sector. (HM Government, 2013) (Barawas and Fleetwood et al., 2013) This contribution is measured by the Gross Value Added (GVA), here below is a table to represent the contribution the construction industries GVA (for 2012 prices) and its % of economy.
The construction industry plays an important role in competitiveness and prosperity of the economy in terms of its significantly contributing to shelter, infrastructure and employment (Anaman and Osei-Amponsah, 2007). A number of researchers have investigated on the vital role of the construction sector to the overall economic growth. In Rhodes’ paper who stated the construction industry in the UK contributed £83.0 billion in economic output in 2012, which accounts for 6% of the total. Also, workforce jobs in the construction industry in UK were 2.03 million in 2012 and 2.12 million in 2013, account 6.4% and 6.5% in total respectively (C. Rhodes, 2013). Oladinrin indicated the significance of construction linkage with the aggregate economy in Nigeria by studying on construction output and Gross Domestic Project (Oladinrin and etc., 2012). A recent report of U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis showed that the GDP value added of construction industry was $652,723 million in 2014, 3.7% of total GDP (http://www.bea.gov/industry/gdpbyind_data.htm). Besides, a report of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics stated the employment by construction industry sector take 4.7%, 3.9% and 4.5% in the year of 2002, 2012 and 2022 respectively (http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_201.htm). The construction industry has been playing an influential role on domestic GDP in China (Zhou and Liu, 2007). A report of National Bureau of Statistics of China
Specific habits, lack of attention to detail on what should be enforced, and lack of attention by the employee are the largest cause of unsafe acts. Accidents can happen, but majority of the unsafe acts that occur are because of employees personal specific habits. For example, having a spill, not setting up caution signs, and then not cleaning it up. When people ignore rules that are set in place, accidents will occur more often. • Describe at least five techniques for reducing accidents.
This project took me through the history, training, and a day on the job. It could not have been a better experience, and this project proved that a career in construction management is a real possibility in the future. The history of construction management was not a shock, but it was a little bit of a reality check. It is common knowledge that the human race has been building things since the beginning of time, but what is extraordinary is to think about how far the world has come over the thousands of years. Men and women started living in small huts.
Employers make arrangements to carry out the health and safety measures and identified risks by taking risk assessment and they should have monitor and review those arrangements. They should assign the people with the sufficient skill, knowledge and experience to take risk assessment. Employers must setup an emergency procedures and provide information to all the employees about them. Employer must provide clear information, supervision and training for employees and ensure that only suitable people are appointed who are capable of carrying out the tasks. Employers make sure that they work together with any other employer from the same workplace and share the information on the risks that may be affect
Among other things, the owner group comprises some important factors, the bureaucracy is also one of factors that influencing design changes（Kazaz，2012）.Especially in some developing countries, several of bureaucratic barriers usually show in public construction projects, and thus delays in executing the works owing to the shortage of required supports of public establishments. Another weakness infects a construction project health, which is Poor management skill of the owner. Public establishment in a public construction project or innovative company’s board of directors in a private project might suffer from notability of management as a user , applying basic governmental principles （Kazaz，2012）.As a consequence, the all factors
The safety measures now is strict and are regulated through the legislation act of health and safety benefits under the specific laws governed by the state and the employers are bound to follow them in order to ensure the safety and risk management to the employees in the coal mining sector.US has the proper safety and health regulation and the companies are legislated to follow the laws along with reporting and monitoring of the risk management team data’s to be worked out by higher officials giving prime importance to it. The ethics behind the imputation of proper risk management and safety guarantee makes the organizations free from unnecessary hazards and cost. This method also makes the turnover rate low for the employees as they are satisfied to work in the safe and risk free
When it comes to safety most people think they are safe, and they have a true understanding on how to work safe. Human nature prevents us from harming ourselves. Our instincts help protect us from harm. Yet everyday there are injuries and deaths across the world due to being unsafe. What causes people to work unsafe is one of the main challenges that face all Safety Managers across the world.
Safety improvements such as the implimatation of safety leadership ,hazard awareness reduces the the risk of the production to stop due to disasters caused by unsafe working conditions for miners
This is to understand the five different types of building construction and understand their strengths and weaknesses. The five types are: Type 1 - Fire Resistive, Type 2 - Noncombustible, Type 3 – Ordinary, Type 4 - Heavy Timber, and Type 5 - Wood Frame. The understanding of the protective features of the building types. The understanding of a fire or collapse in any of the types of construction. The understanding of our safety when us as firefighters response to incident involving these types of construction.
Most importantly, increased safety in the workplace can lead to fewer workplace injuries and casualties. Workplace health and safety issues are different today than they were at various points of time in Canadian history. Employers are not responsible for injured workers or accidents that happen in the workplace. The main legal doctrine of Assumption of Risk governs workplace hazards, which requires workers to assume and accept all the risks associated with their occupation (Share, 2012).
This paper explores what it takes to be a construction manager and the responsibilities of being a construction manager and the skills that a construction manager should have. It also explores what good construction managers do to have success on their construction projects and the steps that a construction manager must follow to end a project and meet their deadlines at the same
Construction is one of the most dangerous works during this era. The advanced technologies are to be utilized in the construction work but still it is not really safe work. Many of the human beings are now involved in the construction work. It is one of the most typical working fields. Most of the persons who have lack of knowledge, degree and skills join the construction teams in order to earn living. It is said that most of the workers related to the construction industry are not really well educated. This becomes that major cause of their less focus on the work. This proved sometimes very critical condition. One of the most important things in this regard is that workers sometimes not really work with taking great care.
Infrastructure Management and Construction deals with project management, construction materials, construction engineering and building engineering.
Corruption is one of the major issues nowadays and is a clear example and consequence of the actual society and culture. A manifestation of this global phenomenon is the construction industry where corruption is really widespread and interconnected with other industries.