Building engagement: Are there effective ways to ensure construction workers
(particularly in small businesses) are appropriately engaged with and competent in
relevant health and safety matters?
Background
To enable strategic and transformative advances in health and safety across the diverse construction sector through technology and innovation and the new opportunities and risks arising from it. To underpin construction and building safety regulatory regimes with evidence-based approaches and enable effective oversight across the whole built environment. To inform standards and guidance development to improve the safety and standard of buildings and develop effective strategies to measure and build competence across the construction and building safety sectors. To ensure that our approach to regulating chemicals and microbial control agents: is effective, efficient and agile, reflecting current and developing scientific understanding and technical knowledge; reinforces our position as an internationally influential regulator; and enables society to derive the benefits of access to safe and sustainable use of chemicals; and ensure there is no harm to workers, bystanders and consumers or unacceptable effects on the environment.
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Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Related UKRI funded projects
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IMPROVING DESIGN FOR SAFETY: A WEB-BASED DESIGN FOR SAFETY CAPABILITY MATURITY INDICATOR (DFS-CMI) TOOL FOR THE CONSTRUCTION SECTOR
The global construction sector is estimated to account for 100,000 fatalities annually and about 30-40% of all fatal occupational injuries. In the UK, although the construction sector accounts for only approximately 5% o...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University of Manchester
Why might this be relevant?
The project partially answers the question by addressing the issue of design for safety in the construction sector, but does not specifically address engagement and competence of construction workers.
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Connected Worker Disease Prevention for Construction Sector
This project will develop an Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) software tool for construction workers that will for the first-time prevent disease by accurately calculating individual workers exposure to three key con...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: EARTEX LTD
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on developing an OHS software tool for construction workers to prevent disease by calculating exposure to key hazards, addressing health and safety engagement and competence.
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Computer Vision and IoT for Personalised Site Monitoring Analytics in Real-Time (CV-SMART) towards Behaviour-Based Safety
The "One Death is too Many" (Donaghy, 2009) catchphrase for the UK zero-harm agenda shows that no fatal accident is admissible on construction sites. Modern H&S problems can only be solved from a combinatio...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: WINVIC CONSTRUCTION LIMITED
Why might this be relevant?
The project addresses the need for effective digitization and monitoring of health and safety practices on construction sites, aligning with the question's focus on ensuring construction workers are appropriately engaged and competent in health and safety matters.