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The Drawing Board - Engineering with Attitude

Construction-Design for Inherent Safety

Construction sites have a lot of history. They are generally a landscape inhabited by hard men in hard hats and any females on the site are twice as hard as the men. Workers are set in their ways, they will resist change of any kind and there is a macho culture as far as safety is concerned. Safety is for wimps.
Traditionally the unions are very strong and are generally instrumental in advocating for increased safety –
As in most industrial environments, everybody is an instant expert after an incident with a detailed explanation of what should have been done to avoid it.

Monday 4 January, 2010 12:11 AM

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