Week 4_ Ejeh Udoka_ End of year safety report

Week 4_ Ejeh Udoka_ End of year safety report

The end of year safety report recorded five incidents which failed to fall within the year’s tolerable performance criteria which allow maximum of two incidents.

Possible causes

-investigation revealed that most of the personnel involved in the incidents, had poor record of safety meeting or JSA (job safety analyses) attendance.

-on one account, job description procedure was not adequately followed.

-following the investigation involving the malfunctioning of a 30 ton crane, it was noticed that the equipment was not pre-mobilized/ pre-qualified for the job.

-poor handling of power tools was identified.

-a majority of the artisans at the fabrication site are not learned and are unable to read instructions.

Possible solutions

-recording absence from work for those who fail to attend safety and JSA meetings may improve compliance.

-more training on tools and equipment handling should be incorporated.

-pairing up artisans in the combination of learned and unlearned will minimize errors.

-prohibiting personnel isolation will minimize events that are unexplainable.

-increase safety awareness among personnel.

-explaining to all project personnel, the project performance indicators and their role in achieving better result.

Summary

-Leading Indicators

Management walkthrough

House keeping

PPE compliance

Quality of JSA

Welding/cutting operation

Hand/power tools handling

-Trailing indicators

Near miss incidents

First aid cases

Medical treatment cases (MTC)

Lost time incident (LTI)

Fatality

This reveals that an improvement in the leading indicators will considerably narrow out events of trailing indicators. For example, regular house keeping will check cases of trip-and-fall incident which may be a near miss, or result to a first aid case.

Increase in the trailing indicators may considerably deter project progress. For example, an increased record of near misses may eventual a first aid case or an MTC resulting to LTI. This may add to the cost of the project or possibly cause slippage.