Abstract: From past we know that construction safety is a big issue because of it is not safe for both environment as well as health. Benefit of EHS (Environment Health and Safety) programs is to preventing incidents such as injuries, illnesses, hazards and other harmful effects, because these hazards are real. The EHS management first introduce in 1985, the main reason behind this why it is started? Because of incidents such as Bhopal disaster (1984), and Seveso disaster (1976). General concepts of the Environmental Health and Safety management has risen in 1990s. Therefore, Health and safety is an important parameter in construction sites, and this industry is prone to hazardous situations and illness and can be dangerous at any times according to a report 3% of all construction workers in the UK sustain a work-related injury and around 4% ae suffering from work related illness. In today modern age of technology as we know that health and safety is core component of any organization, Normally EHS is the collection of processes, rules and laws which aim to protect environment and human resources and provide them adequate safety against any site hazard. EHS Program help to identify risk conditions, train workers, and control hazard at workplace. Apart from that it provides a solid track how can work safely? And how to analyze the risk. Construction industry has the largest number of injuries and illness as compared to other industries. So that it is important to analyze the risk. The main objective of this paper is to analyze the hazard and why EHS is important? Data for this study were collected using site visit, and web survey. During the site visit I found that this type of hazard occurs due to lack of awareness, poor safety awareness, poor framework for EHS, and lack of knowledge And the outcome of this study can help in construction industry, managers to prepare proper safety plans, and analyze why EHS program is an integral part for construction industry. Because EHS program deal with the awareness and to train the workers so that risk free environment and work can be generate.
Keywords: construction safety, EHS (Environment Health and Safety), harmful effects, workers.
Title: Construction Hazards and EHS
Author: Deepak Nautiyal, Manas Patwal
International Journal of Engineering Research and Reviews
ISSN 2348-697X (Online)
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