IMPROVING CONSTRUCTION SAFETY PERFORMANCE

Construction job safety can be successfully influenced by owners. The degree to which owners should involve themselves in this process should be based on the costs, benefits and risks involved. All owners have a legal and moral responsibility to use reasonable care to correct or warn contractors of any non-apparent hazards present on the site which could affect the safe performance of the construction and to use reasonable care to prevent contractors from injuring others on the site. Owners must make sure that contractors recognize their contractual responsibility to perform safely. Beyond essentials such as these, the owner has considerable flexibility to adjust the degree of involvement and control to each situation. The incentives for increased involvement are lower costs, quality work, improved productivity, adherence to schedule, reduced exposure to bad publicity, and minimal disruption of the owner's employees and facilities. (Author)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • A Construction Industry Cost Effectiveness Project Report.
• Corporate Authors:

  Business Roundtable

  200 Park Avenue
  New York, NY  United States  10166
• Publication Date: 1982-1

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Tables;
• Pagination: 32 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Construction management; Construction safety; Contractors; Contracts; Cooperation; Monitoring; Ownership
• Uncontrolled Terms: Owners
• Old TRIS Terms: Construction control
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Construction; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I50: Construction and Supervision of Construction;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00391394
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Report A-3
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 28 1985 12:00AM