Safety Duties of Front-line Site Staff and Pay for Safety and Environment Date: 21 August 2013 Time: 7:00pm 8:30pm 1
Speakers: Sr Paul K L Wong MSc, MHKIS, MRICS, RPS(QS), MCIOB, MHKICM, MAIB, MHIREA Mr. Willie M H Tam MBA, FCMI, FSocBP, P.Eng(UK) FSPE, P.MASSE, MSOE MlPlantE, MSEE, MBOHS, LCGI, MHKIOE, RSO 2
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Important Ordinances Concerned with Health and Safety Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance, Chapter 59 ( 工廠及工業經營條例 - 香港法例第 59 章 ) Occupational Safety and Health Ordinance, Chapter 509 ( 職業安全及健康條例 - 香港法例第 509 章 ) 4
Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance, Chapter 59 The Coverage This ordinance applies to industrial undertakings, i.e. factories, construction sites, catering establishments, cargo and container handling undertakings, repair workshops and other industrial workplaces. 5
Occupational Safety and Health Ordinance, Chapter 509 The Coverage This ordinance covers almost all workplaces - places where employees work. In addition to factories, construction sites and catering establishments, other places, such as offices, laboratories, shopping arcades, educational institutions also come under the ambit of the law. 6
General Duties of a Proprietor Every proprietor of an industrial undertaking should take care of the safety and health at work of all persons employed by him at an industrial undertaking by: 1) Providing and maintaining of plant and systems of work that are, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe and without risks to health; 2) Arrangements for ensuring, so far as is reasonably practicable, safety and absence of risks to health in connection with the use, handling, storage and transport of articles and substances; 7
General Duties of a Proprietor 3) Providing of such information, instruction, training, and supervision as necessary to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety at work of all persons employed by him at the industrial undertaking; 4) Providing and maintaining of means of access to and egress from it that are safe and without such risk; 5) Providing and maintaining of a working environment for all persons employed by him at the industrial undertaking that is, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe and without risks to health. 8
General Duties of Persons Employed Every person employed at an industrial undertaking should also contribute to safety and health at work by: 1) Taking care for the safety and health of himself and other persons at the workplace; 2) Using any equipment or following any system or work practices provided by the proprietor. 9
Safety Duties of Front-line Site Staff Purpose Management of site safety and health matters. Providing of information, instruction, training and supervision so as to ensure all workers in compliance with the safety rules and working procedures. All front-line site staff to comply with the safety system and practices. Target Prevent any accidents and incidents. Success 成功 Purpose 目的 Target 目標 10
Who are Front-line Site Staff? On Site Staff Project Manager Site Agent General Foreman Foreman Safety Officer Safety Supervisor Engineer Planning Engineer Project Coordinator Building Services Coordinator 11
Front-line Site Management Staff Front-line site management staff Important members of safety organization. Failure to execute their duties Failure of the safety management policy. Past Records: Insufficient supervision One of the major reasons of accidents and incidents. 12
The Ways for Front-line Site Staff to Learn and Handle Matters Through Influence, Excitation and Supervision To achieve the capability of ideal target. Change from guarding workers to coaching and mentoring. Change from inspection to learning opportunity of a team Team building and reward these improved in of health and safety matters. Obtain trust and respect from workers. Allow workers to know the future situation. Form network with other front-line site management staff. Assist the management to create safety culture. 13
Conclusions Though there are no statutory definitions and duties of front-line site management staff, they are important to ensure safety and health on site. Front-line site management staff should Ensure the safety of works on site; Explain to workers about the importance of safety; Reward workers with good safety behaviour; Set good examples with their own conduct; Promote safety hazard identification; Assist to create safety culture. 14
Conclusions To effectively perform the above duties, the front-line site management staff should Have the opportunities to learn and develop their leadership. Have the supports from the employer or top management. 15
Pay for Safety and Environment 16
Outline for Pay for Safety and Environment Bills for safety and environment are normally included in all government contracts and specific contracts for construction, foundation, demolition and civil engineering works etc. The requirements of these bills are to cause the contractor to include certain amount in the contract price for the payments of the items for safety and environmental matters. 17
Bill for Safety and Environmental Management (All Provisional) 1) Preparation and Implementation of Safety Plan and Environmental Plan Qty. Unit Rate(HK$) 1.1) Safety plan ( 安全計劃書 ) Item 17,000 1.2) Environment management plan ( 環保計劃書 ) 1.3) Update safety plan ( 更新安全計劃書 ) 1.4) Update environment management plan ( 更新環保計劃書 ) Item 17,000 14 month 3,000 14 month 3,000 18
1.5) Provide safety officer ( 提供安全主任 ) 1.6) Provide environmental officer ( 提供環保主任 ) 1.7) Attend site safety and environmental management meeting ( 出席地盤安全及環保管理會議 ) 1.8) Attend site safety and environmental meeting ( 出席地盤安全及環保會議 ) Qty. Unit Rate(HK$) 14 nr-month 9,000 14 nr-month 9,000 14 month 4,500 14 month 4,500 19
1.9) Arrange and attend weekly safety walk ( 安排及出席每週安全巡查 ) 1.10) Arrange and attend weekly environmental walk ( 安排及出席每週環保巡查 ) Qty. Unit Rate(HK$) 60 number 3,500 60 number 3,500 20
2) Provide Safety and Environmental Training Qty. Unit Rate(HK$) 2.1) 1-day course(for1 st attendance) ( 一天制課程 ) 2.2) Half-day revalidation course ( 半天制重溫課程 ) 2.3) Site specific induction training ( 地盤入職訓練 ) 2.4) Tool box talks ( 工具箱座談 ) 100 number 650 130 number 350 700 number 100 4,700 number 30 21
3) Site Safety Cycle ( 安全施工程序 ) Qty. Unit Rate(HK$) 3.1) Arrange and hold pre-work activities of site safety working cycle( 安排及進行安全施工程序例如 : 早操 早操會議及危害早操會議及危害識別 ) 3.2) Provide safety bulletin board ( 提供安全告示板 ) 3.3) Use of quality power mechanical equipment ( 優質機動設備 ) 18,700 number 30 2 number 20,000 14 number 7,000 22
4) Provisional Sum 4.1) Participate in promotional campaign as instructed by the Architect ( 參加宣傳活動 ) Qty. Unit Rate(HK$) - sum 60,000 23
Bill for Environmental Measures (All Provisional) 1) Air pollution abatement ( 空氣污染消減 ) 2) Mechanical dump truck covers ( 夾斗車機動蓋掩 ) 3) Noise pollution abatement ( 噪聲污染消減 ) 4) Wastewater pollution abatement ( 廢水污染消減 ) Qty. Unit Rate(HK$) Item 550 number 40 Item Item 24
5) Waste management( 廢物管理 ) 6) Monitoring of the use of ultra low sulphur diesel (arrange and conduct testing of fuel sample by laboratory) ( 監管及測試超低硫柴油 ) 7) Environmental mitigation and monitoring measures(air, noise and water) ( 減輕及監控環境污染環境污染措施 ) Qty. Unit Rate(HK$) Item 42 number Item 25
Bill for Trip Ticket System Management (All Provisional) 1) Complete site management plan for Trip Ticket System ( 地盤拆建物料運載管理計劃 ) 2) Implementation of site management plan for trip ticket system ( 實行地盤拆建物料運載管理計劃 - 拆建物料運載記錄票 ) Qty. Unit Rate(HK$) Item 14 month 26
Information of Safety and Environmental Management 1.1) Safety plan 1.2) Environmental plan 27
1.3) Update safety plan <month> 1.4) Update environmental management plan <month> 28
1.5) Provide safety officer <month> 1.6) Provide environmental officer <month> 29
1.7) Site safety and environmental management meeting minute 1.8) Site safety and environmental meeting minute 30
1.9) Arrange and attend weekly safety walk <number> Weekly Weekly safety safety walk walk inspection form form 31
1.10) Arrange and attend weekly environmental walk <number> Weekly Weekly environmental walk walk inspection form form 32
2) Provide safety and environmental training 2.1) 1-day course (for 1 st attendance) <number> 2.2) half-day revalidation course <number> 33
2.3) Site specific induction training <number> 2.4) Tool box talks <number> 34
Training material of of tool tool box box talk talk 35
3) Site safety cycle 3.1) Arrange and hold pre-work activities of site safety working cycle <number> 36
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3.1) Safety working cycle attendance record 38
3.1) PPE checklist 39
3.1) Hazard identification 40
3.2) Provide safety bulletin board <number> 41
3.3) Use of quality power mechanical equipment <month> 42
4) Provisional sum 4.1) Participate in promotional campaign as instructed by the Architect <sum> 43
Information of Environmental Measures 1) Air Pollution Abatement 1.1) Provision, maintenance and removal of covering for dusty materials or air pollution abatement measures for dusty activities <item> 44
1.2) Provision, maintenance and removal of screens or enclosures for smoky activities <item> 45
1.3) Provision, maintenance and removal of wheel washing system <item> 46
2) Mechanical dump truck covers Use of mechanical dump truck covers <nr> 47
3) Noise pollution abatement 3.1) Provision, maintenance and removal of acoustic screens or enclosures <item> 3.2) Adoption of other noise abatement practices <item> 48
4) Wastewater pollution abatement 4.1) Provision, maintenance and removal of wastewater collection system <item> 4.2) Provision, maintenance and removal of wastewater treatment system <item> 49
所有由混凝土灌漿工作所產生的污水, 於排放前須先經包括酸鹼值調節的廢水處理設施處理 50
5) Information of Waste management 5.1) Arrange and conduct on-site sorting of C&D material <item> Record Record daily daily disposal of of construction & demolition materials 51
5.2) Arrange and conduct on-site sorting of C&D material <item> Disposal delivery form form (Trip (Trip Ticket) Ticket) 52
6) Monitoring of the use of ultra low sulphur diesel 6.1) Arrange and conduct testing of fuel sample by laboratory <nr> Monthly record record delivery of of ultra ultra low low sulphur sulphur diesel diesel 53
6.1) Arrange and conduct testing of fuel sample by laboratory <nr> Delivery Note Note of of ultra ultra low low sulphur sulphur diesel diesel Test Test certificate of of ultra ultra low low sulphur sulphur diesel diesel 54
7) Environmental mitigation & monitoring measures 7.1) Provision, maintenance and romoval of environmental mitigation & monitoring measures (air related measures) <item> 55
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7.2) Provision, maintenance and romoval of environmental mitigation & monitoring measures (noise related measures) <item> 57
7.3) Provision, maintenance and romoval of environmental mitigation & monitoring measures (water related measures) <item> 58
Information of Trip Ticket System Management 1) Complete site management plan for trip ticket system <item> Trip Trip ticket ticket system system management plan plan 59
2) Implementation of site management plan for trip ticket system <month> Monthly record record of of trip trip ticket ticket 60
Q & A 61
Thank You! 62