Site Specific Safety Plan

Site Specific Safety Plan
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Site Specific Safety Plan
The two pieces of legislation (Acts) that address the health and safety in New Zealand include the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA). HSWA is New Zealand’s primary work health and safety law that outlines the principles, duties, and rights associated with work health and safety (WorkSafe, 2018). This legislation was founded on the premise that workers should have the highest protection level against harm arising from work risks. Its main purpose is to offer a balanced framework for securing workers’ health and safety by eliminating or reducing work-related risks. 
Fundamental Principles of Health and Safety Applied to Designing the Building in Photos One and Two
           Ensuring the health and safety of workers and dependents is a priority at construction sites and facilities. Every construction site in New Zealand is required to comply with health and safety regulations to prevent or minimize the number of incidents and accidents. Photos 1 and 2 show a typical construction site in a city center. There are a lot of activities currently underway that can be seen. The following fundamental principles apply to designing buildings.
* A Capable Team
Designing a building is achievable with a team of capable people. This procedure is essential for consultation, cooperation, and coordination between the client and the designer. Teams need technical knowledge, strong leadership, and an understanding of the site before designing the building. The principle of a capable team requires a team to consist of qualified people with diverse skills and knowledge as well as workers who will use the structure. Teams could include engineers, designers, architects, managers, workers, and their representatives, builders, technical experts, health and safety advisors, human factors professionals, insurers, owners, industrial and software designers, supply chain stakeholders, and an effective facilitator with experience in health and safety by design. 
People responsible for designing work processes and systems play a significant role in health and safety by design. This includes various health and safety professionals like generalist health and safety practitioners, occupational hygienists, safety, risk, and reliability engineers, hazardous substance professionals, human factors professionals/ergonomists, and occupational health physicians and nurses.
According to this principle, a team of capable people should understand technical design standards, the risk management process, the design’s intended purpose, and work health and safety laws. They should also appreciate the construction methods and be able to source and apply relevant data on human dimensions, behaviors, and capabilities. The principle of a capable team would apply to designing the building in photos I and two because the facility requires a team of professionals who understand the design and construction activities and health and safety standards to be set out to prevent health risks on the construction site. 
Several activities in photos 1 and 2 fall into specialized construction activities, a division that includes civil engineering works and the construction of parts of a building. These activities are specialized in one aspect and require specialized skills or equipment such as foundation work, concrete work, pile-driving, carcass work, steel structure erection, basement brickwork, stone setting, bricklaying, roof covering, and scaffolding. Other activities include plumbing and electrical work in the interior and exterior of the building. These activities are observable from the construction site in the photos. 
Due to the size of the building, heating and air-conditioning systems, alarm systems, antennas, elevators, sprinkler systems, and escalators are being installed. Also included are insulation and sheet metal work. At the completion, workers will carry out interior and exterior plastering, glazing, painting, acoustic work, and floor and wall tiling. All these activities will require a capable team with diverse knowledge and expertise in a specific area. These include teams with technical knowledge to design and construct the building and health and safety professionals to ensure compliance with health and safety regulations. 
* A Risk Management
A risk management principle focuses on safety at all construction sites. Health and safety risks occur due to exposure to hazards. This principle requires designers to eliminate or reduce health and safety risks. To accomplish this, designers must take a systematic approach to identify and managing work risks that they can influence or control (WorkSafe, 2018). Risk identification is the first step in the risk management process. Designers must identify potential hazards in the concept development and design stages as early as possible. They may locate risks relating to the design of buildings in photos 1 and 2 by looking at the workplace and how work is done. They can talk to workers, suppliers, and health and safety specialists and review the relevant information, incident reports, and records. 
When managing risks, designers should consider the workers’ ability to use construction tools, the practicability of risk management, and control measures that protect many people simultaneously. They should also ensure that the risk management is proportionate to the scale of the identified risk. The risk management principle follows the notion that designers should systematically identify all health and safety risks within the area. It means that designers should put effort and resources into determining the most appropriate ways to address the risks likely to cause severe consequences like serious injury, chronic ill-health, and death.
Workers constructing the building in the photos are likely to face health and safety hazards related to working from height; hazardous health substances including chemicals and chemical by-products; radiation; moving objects; slips, trips, and falls; noise; vibration; materials handling; unintended collapse; airborne fibers and toxins; and electricity, thermal and mechanical risks. The principle of risk management could help identify and address these risks at the design stage.  
* Quality Management
The principle of quality management in designing the multi-story office building takes two approaches: 1. Good documentation and communication and 2. Frequent monitoring and review (WorkSafe, 2018). The former directs designers to reflect health and safety design aspects in the requirements of contract documents for construction. This assists in the selection of qualified contractors. Quality management elements consist of consultation, coordination, and cooperation. This principle encourages designers to provide detailed information to design stakeholders. It requires documentation of identified and safety risks, their assessment, the applied control measures, and the applicable canons and decision trails recorded at the design stage (WorkSafe, 2018). Availing this information to concerned parties makes them aware of any remaining hazards and methods to address them. 
The other part of quality management: frequent monitoring and reviewing of the control measures improves outcomes and creates room for managing unexpected risks. It also checks whether health and safety in the building have been achieved. To achieve this principle, designers can monitor the effectiveness of the risk management process to ensure continuous improvement, document safety recommendations and residual risks with the design, and perform effective modifications and maintenance.
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1.Project Name or Location
A Multi-storey office building with basement car parking.
Location: New Zealand.

2.Outline a work being Undertaken
This Site-specific safety plan relates to the excavation and foundation works and construction of the main superstructure of the building. Excavation and foundation work is the initial procedure of the construction project. In the first photo, the workers use excavating machines to dig trenches where the building will be erected. In this foundation trench, a plain cement concrete (PCC) layer is laid in the explored area before placing the foundation reinforcements, a process known as surface dressing. This has been closely followed by column casting: laying a column using foundation steel as per the drawings. The photo shows that the first column layout is being constructed based on the column reinforcement drawing and general specifications. The presence of plumbing pipes indicates that the installation of the water system is about to start. The second photo illustrates the construction of the building's main superstructure. The superstructure is part of the building above its foundation. The main components include columns, beams, slabs, floor, stairs, and lintel. On the exterior, the construction of columns and beams is ongoing. Workers also use a crane to lift and lower heavy construction materials, indicating that additional floors are being constructed. The stairs, elevators, slabs, ceilings, and floors are being built on the interior. Other activities include electrical work, plumbing, and heating and cooling units. The outline of the work illustrated requires compliance with health and safety regulations because the work done in the substructure could expose workers to serious health hazards.

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