5 Best Practices Southeast Asia Construction Business Owners Must Have To Ensure Workers Safety

“Someone fell on the scaffolding” or “ Someone got hit by a hammer on his head” is the scariest message you can receive as a Construction business owner.

It gets your heart pounding so hard and gets you sweating even you’re working in your air conditioned office. You know if something might happen like this, the blame is on you because you didn’t spend time practicing this safety tips.

Train your worker to make it a habit to wear PPE

You know what, it’s so easy to put your hardhat on your head and your worker won’t do it. Why? It might be they are overconfident or they believe they have protection power they’ve got from their deity.

No matter what their reason is, don't listen to them. If one of your workers gets into an accident (knock on wood) you can’t say to the police officer that you allowed him because he said he has a divine power given from his deity.

I don’t know how the police officer would react with what you’ve said. So if you want to maintain a healthy reputation that can get you more clients,  simply training your workers to wear PPE all the time helps.

Follow the signs

If you’re blind I can understand why you can’t follow the signs all the time. It's alright. But if you have clear eyes that can put thread on the needle, but you can't follow the sign even if you’ve looked into it. then maybe it’s time to remove it and give it to someone who deserves it. Workers must be trained enough to understand and follow signs.

This can help you avoid accidents in your sites. If you have a visitor make sure that they know the signs and must have a designated attire and safety vest to separate them from workers.

Keep the Construction Site Tidy

Of course you don’t want your workers on the 2nd floor shout so hard and you on the first floor wonder what just happened to him. You go up and find out he steps on a nail that wasn’t thrown properly. So make sure you or designate someone to remove Dust, debris, loose nails, and stagnant water on the site.

Organize and store properly

Aside from stepping on the nails. there's more worse than that. It is when someone from the 5th floor accidentally kicked the left hammer, then it fell down straight to the head of the plumber who is annoyed and sweating while connecting the pipes. It’s more worst when he is not wearing a hardhat.

That might be the last pipe he will install in his life. So the best way to avoid this is to organize and put the tools in the right place once you finish using it.

Inspect tools and equipment regularly

Can you imagine this,  if your worker carries the heaviest equipment you have to the last floor. sweating and tired, plugged it to the outlet then realized the tool won’t work. I couldn’t imagine what his reaction would be. Could you?

So in order to avoid that scenario, inspect the tools and equipment regularly.There’s more tips like this once you subscribe to Construct Side. a newsletter which keeps you updated to what is happening in the Southeast Asia construction and infrastructure industry.

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