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Companies involved will use the time to talk to employees and suppliers about how the construction and infrastructure industry can boost performance in relation to health, safety and wellbeing.
Organisations backing the campaign include BAM Nuttall, Balfour Beatty, Crossrail, HS2 Ltd, Heathrow Airport, Environment Agency and Network Rail, among many others.
Each company taking part will make a commitment to the four main campaign areas:
promoting positive mental health
tackling lung disease
stopping fatigue; and
boosting plant safety.
The aim of these commitments is to make sites safer, support better health and promote wellbeing in the infrastructure and construction areas.
CECA chief executive Alasdair Reisner said: “As an industry we have made tremendous progress in recent years to improve our health, safety and wellbeing. However there remains significant scope to improve.
“We think Stop. Make a Change will provide a platform for the sector to work together, tackling some of the leading issues faced by our workforce and supply chain”
Ruth Gallagher, safety improvement director at Heathrow Airport, said: “Our vision is that everyone gets home safe and well every day, a key success factor is making health, safety and wellbeing personal for everyone so they make the right choices, openly report and make interventions to keep themselves and everyone around them safe and well.
“Taking part in the National Stop Make a Change campaign provides another opportunity for teams across Heathrow to talk about health and wellbeing in a positive and engaging way.”
Nick Fletcher, Morgan Sindall’s managing director of infrastructure said: “We are committed to ensuring that our strategy for health, safety and wellbeing provides continuous improvements for all our employees and other stakeholders – we do this by measuring both the inputs and the outputs of our strategy.
“It is important to keep things fresh, and using inputs like Stop. Make a Change are invaluable opportunities for us to reflect on our performance and review how we can continue to develop and advance – not just at Morgan Sindall, but across the industry as a whole.”
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STOPPING FATIGUE ! Now that is a “known or should have been known” foreseeable even, ‘predictable hazard’ that has always increased the risk of unintentional errors, mishaps and sometime catastrophic accidents.
Whether just popping a couple of sugars in someones coffee who doesn’t take sugar at one extreme to the other extreme that may account for Brazilian football teams plane early landing, somewhere in the chain of causation leading too this event, ground crew, air-traffic control, Pilot etc there is likely to be a simple error of judgment in calculation and/or poor decision along the way.
Fatigue is yet to be fully appreciated by the vast majority of people who are encouraged to continue to cope, tolerate and persevere, more often than not, just dismissing “it” as tiredness and something “temporary”, even been promoted by dot gov & HSE who have continued to insist DSE user operators suffering the debilitating symptoms of CVS & Screen Fatigue are temporary and they should become more “resilient” over time.
DSE user operators are just an easy example as, I can declare a vested interest in this subject nevertheless, tiredness affects everyone from the lorry driver to office worker self-medicating with performance enhancing amounts of caffeine in coffee or energy drinks to those suffering over-exposure to a stressor, physical and/or mental, with other self-medicating interventions for heart burn, acid re-flux, ABS to comfort food and alcohol anything to try and get a better night sleep.
The escape of the ‘sickie’ has been significantly reduced with some pretty draconian measure by some employers thereby only leaving “presenteeism” as a solution to making some accommodation to compliance and captivity whilst the growing degree of performance anxiety, exacerbated by insecurity and ‘working to live’ conundrum, erodes the performance and productivity of the human organism and it develops some, hopefully relatively minor, illness sufficient for it’s purpose, enforcing escape from the stressor.
Again, by way of an easy example, the symptoms of CVS or Screen Fatigue manifest in initially, a degree eye strain as a warning before moving onto eye and head aches followed by distorted and/or double vision if, the user persists in staying on-screen then, up’s the anti, over time, by introducing RSI type disorders classified as WULD’s and MSD’s and then there are the longer latency non-communicable diseases, depression to mental break down, embolisms, stroke, heart attack, cancer apart from other conditions exacerbated by stress eczema. psoriasis, asthma, herpes & shingles.
So praise be to the construction industry by taking steps toward recognising the conditions required for optimal and sustainable performance of human resources in order to conserve at worst and restore at best productivity.
STOPPING FATIGUE ! Now that is a “known or should have been known” foreseeable even, ‘predictable hazard’ that has always increased the risk of unintentional errors, mishaps and sometime catastrophic accidents.
Whether just popping a couple of sugars in someones coffee who doesn’t take sugar at one extreme to the other extreme that may account for Brazilian football teams plane early landing, somewhere in the chain of causation leading too this event, ground crew, air-traffic control, Pilot etc there is likely to be a simple error of judgment in calculation and/or poor decision along the way.
Fatigue is yet to be fully appreciated by the vast majority of people who are encouraged to continue to cope, tolerate and persevere, more often than not, just dismissing “it” as tiredness and something “temporary”, even been promoted by dot gov & HSE who have continued to insist DSE user operators suffering the debilitating symptoms of CVS & Screen Fatigue are temporary and they should become more “resilient” over time.
DSE user operators are just an easy example as, I can declare a vested interest in this subject nevertheless, tiredness affects everyone from the lorry driver to office worker self-medicating with performance enhancing amounts of caffeine in coffee or energy drinks to those suffering over-exposure to a stressor, physical and/or mental, with other self-medicating interventions for heart burn, acid re-flux, ABS to comfort food and alcohol anything to try and get a better night sleep.
The escape of the ‘sickie’ has been significantly reduced with some pretty draconian measure by some employers thereby only leaving “presenteeism” as a solution to making some accommodation to compliance and captivity whilst the growing degree of performance anxiety, exacerbated by insecurity and ‘working to live’ conundrum, erodes the performance and productivity of the human organism and it develops some, hopefully relatively minor, illness sufficient for it’s purpose, enforcing escape from the stressor.
Again, by way of an easy example, the symptoms of CVS or Screen Fatigue manifest in initially, a degree eye strain as a warning before moving onto eye and head aches followed by distorted and/or double vision if, the user persists in staying on-screen then, up’s the anti, over time, by introducing RSI type disorders classified as WULD’s and MSD’s and then there are the longer latency non-communicable diseases, depression to mental break down, embolisms, stroke, heart attack, cancer apart from other conditions exacerbated by stress eczema. psoriasis, asthma, herpes & shingles.
So praise be to the construction industry by taking steps toward recognising the conditions required for optimal and sustainable performance of human resources in order to conserve at worst and restore at best productivity.