The Daily Huddle: How to Increase Safety, Quality, and Improve the Schedule on Construction Projects

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Construction, project, risk, and safety managers implement safety management plans to mitigate the risks encountered on construction projects. These risks include damage to materials, equipment, construction work in place, minor incidents or injuries to employees, accidents that lead to employee lost time from work, and even death. All of these risks have negative financial impacts on a project and can be avoided. The old attitude that injuries or deaths are an expected result of construction projects is being replaced by the goal of an incident and injury free (IIF) workplace. Table 1 demonstrates an increased focus on safety that has helped the construction industry achieve a three-year decline in total recordable cases according to the U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Table 1: Construction Industry Recordable Rates: U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Oct. 29, 2009: USDL-09-1302.

These data show a positive trend in safety performance but it is still higher than the national average of 4.2 recordable cases …

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