A new study on how to build health and safety into construction management is about to start, but researchers need your help.
Iain Cameron, a member of the CIOB鈥檚 health, safety and welfare committee, has been awarded 拢96,000 by the Health and Safety Executive to lead the project at Glasgow Caledonian University.

His team will investigate how to properly integrate health and safety planning, to stop it being a bolt-on extra to the overall planning process.

鈥淭hose who manage safety best don鈥檛 necessarily care more about health and safety, they鈥檙e just better managers,鈥� Cameron said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 as simple as that.鈥�

Cameron鈥檚 team needs help finding best-practice ideas. It could be establishing milestones on the programme, or drawing up responsibility charts. The team wants to know your ideas.

The final result will be a best-practice guide. A set of 鈥淜ey Integrated Safety Management Procedures鈥� and 鈥淜ey Safety Performance Indicators鈥� will also be developed.

A group of interested parties is urgently required to steer the research, as well. Representatives from industry are also needed to collaborate on the various aspects of the research including providing advice on best practice, facilitating interviews and allowing access to live projects to observe real-life practices.

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Construction Manager

Postscript

Email: I.Cameron@gcal.ac.uk or B.Hare@gcal.ac.uk.