As part of a campaign focusing on health and safety, the ECITB is publishing a series of top tips to help create a better safety culture in the engineering construction industry (ECI).
With health and safety training being one of the key contributors in helping reduce accidents and lost-time incidents on sites, the ECITB’s CCNSG (Client Contractor National Safety Group) Safety Passport course helps to develop a positive health and safety culture, where safe and healthy working becomes second nature to everyone.
Below are a series of tips from the course to help keep you and your colleagues safe.
General health and safety
All workers must:
- Take reasonable care for their own health and safety
- Consider the safety of other persons who may be affected by their acts or omissions
- Work in accordance with information and training provided
- Refrain from intentionally misusing or recklessly interfering with anything that has been provided for health and safety reasons
- Read and understand all job-related paperwork such as method statements before starting work
- Speak to a supervisor if there is anything you are not sure about
- Carry out a check that everything at the worksite is as it should be before you start. If it is not, contact your supervisor
- Report any defects in plant and equipment, or shortcomings in the existing safety arrangements, to a responsible person without delay
- Not undertake any task for which authorisation and/or training has not been given
Positive safety culture
Safety for all is achieved when each individual helps to create a positive safety culture:
- Have respect for rules and procedures
- Ensure good time management
- Have a ‘safety-first’ attitude
- Always behave appropriately (e.g. not fooling around)
- Be tidy and hygienic (e.g. good housekeeping)
- Have respect for others
- Take care of yourself and others
- Challenge unsafe acts and behaviours
- Stay alert
- Beware of fatigue and its effects on you
- Always pay attention, avoid distractions (such as using mobiles)
The ECITB plays a vital role in ensuring the UK has workers with the skills to meet the needs of the ECI.
This includes ensuring workers hold the requisite health and safety skills and knowledge to keep both themselves and their colleagues safe when operating in some of the most hazardous and safety critical environments in industry.
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