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Construction safety has been considered as a hot topic in academic research. As per the latest research. the largest number of published construction safety documents were published by scholars from the US and China; the total number of published articles by these two countries was 1,125, at 56% of the 2000 articles that were published.
The United Kingdom began requiring construction companies, project owners, and architects to address safety and health during the design phase of projects in 1994. Australia developed the Australian National OHS Strategy 2002–2012, which set "eliminating hazards at the design stage" as one of five national priorities.
The regulations placed specific duties on clients, designers and contractors, to plan their approach to health and safety. They applied throughout construction projects, from inception to final demolition and removal. They were introduced by the Health and Safety Executive's Construction Division to: [2] Improve project planning and management;
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Safety and Health in Construction Convention, 1988 is an International Labour Organization Convention. It was established in 1988, with the preamble stating: Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to safety and health in construction,...
The main purpose of building codes is to protect public health, safety and general welfare as they relate to the construction and occupancy of buildings and structures — for example, the building codes in many countries require engineers to consider the effects of soil liquefaction in the design of new buildings. [1]
In more recent times, the expressions "occupational safety and health" and "occupational health and safety" have come into use (and have also been adopted in works by the ILO), [13] based on the general understanding that occupational health refers to hazards associated to disease and long-term effects, while occupational safety hazards are ...
This topic brings the joining of worker safety and motrist safety together, which I assume is the source of the original proposal to merge construction site safety with traffic control. Is a Work Zone Safety topic with links to each of the other two topics logical? 158.111.5.33 ( talk ) 14:12, 16 May 2011 (UTC) [ reply ]