Does Frequency Of Safety Inspection Improves Or Reduces Workplace Safety And Health Accident Statistics In Construction Industry?

Aims and objectives

Discuss about the Does Frequency Of Safety Inspection Improves Or Reduces Workplace Safety And Health Accident Statistics In Construction Industry?

The main aim of this report will focus on identifying the frequency of the safety inspection. The following inspection will be followed by inspecting to see if that improves or reduces the WSH accident statistics in the construction industry (Chen and Chong 2015). The main objective will include the strategic plan of action. The strategy will build capabilities to manage WSH, to effect WSH legislative that will implement changes and adopt a regulatory framework. The plans are to be followed with data collection to investigate and find out the ways to reduce the accidents (El-Sallamy et al 2017).

The workplace safety and health council current statistics within the year 2015- 2016 reveals the workplace accidents are much related to the access to the technologies that they are going to use in the workplace. The workplace injuries to have increased about 2.2 per 100,000 employed workers from that of 2015 (Takala et al 2014). There has been the rise in the fatal injuries and accidents in the constructions sites. Thus safety inspections are to be made in order to make a change in the scenario of the accidents that are taking place. Safety inspections can only make improvement of the conditions. There needs to be proper investigation and plan in order totally reduce the rate of the accidents.

The following project has been made in order to develop a strategic plan following the statistics of WSH. This will improve the lives of the people in the job. Since many technologies have arrived these days, proper health and safety management strategies are to be followed to prevent the fatal accidents that occur. There will be proper understanding the legislations and knowledge of the person roles and responsibilities in the workplace and try to make the changes. The profession of environment health and safety captures the interest owing to the above-mentioned reasons.

The following report will help to gain knowledge on the value of the safety in health management in any workplace. This will shed light on the ways to make change in the reductions of the accidents in any workplace (J?drzychowska and Kwiecie? 2015). But if the approach is to concentrate only on the topic related issue, then in construction areas where the number of fatal accidents and injuries are high proper plan needs to be made. This will help the learners to understand and make design of the safety inspection followed by a plan in order to curb the incidents (Feng, Zhang and Wu 2015).

Background

The study design will be made in order to carry out the investigation study. The following research will be made in the qualitative study. This will help to explore and explain the main cause behind the accidents and injuries in the construction industry. This will be based on the evidence based study of the situation. The following investigation based study will be designed on the basis of descriptive. This will be based on case study and naturalistic observation followed by survey. The data will be primary data made by the investigator.

For the safety inspection, the primary data will be carried out by using the techniques of the interviews and questionnaires. A tabulation plan needs to be made during the safety inspection. The questionnaires are going to include the types of work that is undertaken, the number of employees working. The questions can be addressed to the main office or the administrator. The other questions are going to be- ‘Does the company has written HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICY? , ‘Does the company have the safety program and safety management, the injury/ incident reporting and safety performances?’ ‘Does the company have safety representative/ committee? the training measures. To refine the data in questionnaires, the pilot survey needs to be made. Amendments to be made and then form new version of testing in order make any changes. Then interviewing are to be made in order to identify the underlying reasons for the accidents (Nielsen, et al 2015). The interview made will be ‘structured’ based on carefully worded questions. There can be short answers or tick off. The questionnaires and the interviews will be distributed among the administrators and the employees (Samarakoon and Sælensminde 2015). The number of respondents that is aimed to be collected is more than half the population in the industry. This will make the inspection confident to achieve the results. The data will be analyzed to get the statistics of the safety infrastructure of the industry. This will make the understanding of the accident rates in the company and give the insight to improve the quality of the safety in the industry (Lin et al 2014). The chi square test can be made in the data collected to find the strength of association between two categorical variables.

The ethical issues come in this survey program. These are related to the collection of the personal information company that can be an interest to the organization commercial rivals. Thus to prevent this the following data needs to be collected which is to be secured for only essential purposes and needs to be destroyed when it is no longer needed. The survey will ensure the company that the outputs will not breech the confidence of the ethical terms and conditions. This is done on the basis of research ethics. The participants of the investigation must have full knowledge of what is involved. The researcher must therefore make survey plan in such a way that when the data is to be collected there will be no harm to the participants involved. The benefits of knowledge that are to be generated must be sufficient to outweigh any inconvenience to the subjects.

Rationale

The following questions that are to be made will not be giving any harm or discomfort to the participants.

This section will ensure the main risks of the researcher, participants. There may be some problem related with the breeching with the personal information. In that case, risk may arise. The project plan should be made accordingly and changed if a risk is observed. Sometimes the conditions and the questions can be harmful to the subject. The researcher should thus mention about the potential risks that could be associated and see if there are minimum risks. There should be a reasonable expectation of the privacy under the study. Confidentiality of data should be made that will concern the safeguarding of the information. The ways to minimize the risk is to give the complete design of the data with rationales. The research team who will assemble the data collection needs to be expert and experienced. The projected sample data is to be sufficient to yield useful results. There should be data safety monitoring plan to protect the confidentiality. Leeds Beckett University will ensure the safety of the dissertation on which it is to be worked (Smith 2017)

The resources required are the travel costs of the participants and the production of the final report. The researcher can estimate the approximate cost that is required. The laboratory manager of the Leeds Beckett’s needs to be checked who will be supporting the proposal of the facilities that are to be used.

Programme diary

WORKPLAN	KEY DATES
Preparation of final report	21.8.2017
Estimate of cost to be spend finalization	25.8.2017
The team member selection	1.9.2017
Survey	3.9.2017

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