CE 18: Construction Methods and Project Management

Assignment No. 2

Name: Basbas, Christine Ann I.

Year/Section: CE -V
Date: January 20, 2020

Topic: What is safety and why is it important in the construction industry?

Better Safe than Sorry

Normal people will say, “Learn to leave the table if respect is no longer served.” But in the
construction industry, it prefer to say “Learn to leave your job if safety is no longer served.” Yes, we
are all going to die anyway but are you not going to be more satisfied entering heaven if you already
serve your purpose enough? Everything will come to an end, but please don’t let your death surprise
you. As the super spanking aged-long-lived-ancient-senescent-oldest saying says “Prevention is better
than cure.”

But what is this so called safety all about? Safety is having freedom from harm or danger. It is
the condition of being safe from undergoing or causing hurt, injury or loss. Who wants to get hurt,
right? Encapsulating it all out, safety simply means the state of being safe. It is known to us that the
construction industry is a very risky place to be in. And all the workers inside a construction site in
consideration from the most bottom up to the top positions, all do deserve to be secured and to be
safe.

Construction industry will never be step up progress without going through a process, and this
process will never progress without the workers which serve as the fuel in the construction site. That
is the very reason for a company, firm, or whatsoever thing that runs a construction site to always
keep in mind and to always consider the safety of each and every single person involved. The advent
of industrialization and the continuing introduction of technological innovations in our country today
have, however, correspondingly increased the number and types of occupational hazards that our
workers are exposed to.

The objective of safeness in the construction industry is to protect every workingman against
all of the dangers with regards to injury, to sickness or the worst which is death through safe and
healthful working conditions, thereby assuring the conservation of valuable manpower resources and
the prevention of loss or damage to each and every life of all workers and properties, and to be
consistent with the national development goals and with the industry’s commitment for the total
development of every worker as a complete human being. Employees mean any person hired,
permitted or suffered to work by an employer. Therefore, all employers shall mean to provide safety
for all employers in return of their hardship.

“Work Accident” shall mean an unplanned or unexpected occurrence that may or may not
result in personal injury, property damage, work stoppage or interference or any combination thereof,
which arises out of and in the course of employment. On the contrary to this, “Safe or Safety” shall
refer to the physical or environmental conditions of work or employment, which substantially comply
with the provisions of this Standards. There is no reason for all of the employers to not provide
enough safety precaution to all of their workers. Safeness on site must be the very best and must be
the very first thing to be always considered especially to a risky and harmful place in which work is a
no joke.

It is always better to be safe. It has never been better to be prepared for us to be secured.
There is no need for a cure if prevention was already served. Safeness must be an everyday necessity
and not just an option when everything else fails.

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