Comments on: What Project Planning Approach Improves Construction Safety? http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2006/12/03/709/ The magazine for the project age Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:47:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Hal http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2006/12/03/709/#comment-11971 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:17:42 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2006/12/03/709/#comment-11971 Thanks for all the encouragement. As Katie indicates any company intent on keeping people safe on their construction sites must have a clear policy. But like <i>creating a value</i> for safety policies take leadership, education, and accountability. Working to the above safety rule coupled with making work ready can be adopted immediately. The results, as Alan points out in his reference to Boldt and MT Hojgaard (MTH), are astonishing. MTH, an already safe company, reported they reduced incidents by over 60% in their first year. Anyone know another action that will produce a similar result? No skiing yet...but soon! Thanks for all the encouragement. As Katie indicates any company intent on keeping people safe on their construction sites must have a clear policy. But like creating a value for safety policies take leadership, education, and accountability. Working to the above safety rule coupled with making work ready can be adopted immediately. The results, as Alan points out in his reference to Boldt and MT Hojgaard (MTH), are astonishing. MTH, an already safe company, reported they reduced incidents by over 60% in their first year. Anyone know another action that will produce a similar result?

No skiing yet…but soon!

]]> by: Katie http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2006/12/03/709/#comment-11970 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:49:23 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2006/12/03/709/#comment-11970 Hal, I, too, applaud you for your efforts to improve safety. While I'm not in the construction industry or a safety (environmental, health, & safety expert), planning is certainly key; it seems to me the starting point is not the plan, but 1) a solid safety related policy to solidify 2) and key (let's say) Cardinal Rules (electrical safety, fall protection, hazardous energy, ...etc.) that describe conditions/etc. to be aware of or followed at each site/project site to drive safety awareness for each worker, let alone the particular company doing the work. Just a thought.... PS...skiing much? rgds, Katie Hal,
I, too, applaud you for your efforts to improve safety. While I’m not in the construction industry or a safety (environmental, health, & safety expert),
planning is certainly key; it seems to me the starting point is not the plan, but 1) a solid safety related policy to solidify 2) and key (let’s say) Cardinal Rules (electrical safety, fall protection, hazardous energy, …etc.) that describe conditions/etc. to be aware of or followed at each site/project site to drive safety awareness for each worker, let alone the particular company doing the work.

Just a thought….

PS…skiing much?
rgds,
Katie

]]> by: Alan Mossman http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2006/12/03/709/#comment-11969 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:38:21 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2006/12/03/709/#comment-11969 Hal, like you I think that this is a really important issue and I am really pleased to see that you are emphasising the Making Work Ready bit rather than Look ahead plannning or similar. For tasks in the lookahead window the key activity is Making them Ready. [for those for whom these terms are new have a look at http://www.obom.org/DOWNLOADS2/LPSoverview.pdf - LPSoverview.pdf doesn't tell you the whole story - you can get that from Hal and his team who are very good at helping construction companies and others involved in one off project based production learn how to do this.] Just how much difference making work ready makes has been ably illustrated by comparison of sites where, inter alia, work is systematically made ready and sites where it is not in two companies - boldt Construction in Wisconsin USA and MT Hojgaard in Denmark. In MT Hojgaard accidents on "MakeReady" sites are around one third of those elsewhere -- and there is a significantly reduction in sickness absence too. Thanks Hal Alan Hal, like you I think that this is a really important issue and I am really pleased to see that you are emphasising the Making Work Ready bit rather than Look ahead plannning or similar. For tasks in the lookahead window the key activity is Making them Ready. [for those for whom these terms are new have a look at http://www.obom.org/DOWNLOADS2/LPSoverview.pdf - LPSoverview.pdf doesn’t tell you the whole story - you can get that from Hal and his team who are very good at helping construction companies and others involved in one off project based production learn how to do this.]

Just how much difference making work ready makes has been ably illustrated by comparison of sites where, inter alia, work is systematically made ready and sites where it is not in two companies - boldt Construction in Wisconsin USA and MT Hojgaard in Denmark. In MT Hojgaard accidents on “MakeReady” sites are around one third of those elsewhere — and there is a significantly reduction in sickness absence too.

Thanks Hal

Alan

]]> by: Diana Hutchinson http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2006/12/03/709/#comment-11968 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:04:58 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2006/12/03/709/#comment-11968 While I am not in the construction industry, I applaud you Hal for your continued efforts to improve safety. Your emphasis on making work ready is a practical step to prevent injuries. While I am not in the construction industry, I applaud you Hal for your continued efforts to improve safety. Your emphasis on making work ready is a practical step to prevent injuries.

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