The document outlines occupational safety and health standards for a construction project. It requires contractors to implement a Construction Safety and Health Program (CSHP) that includes appointing safety personnel, conducting meetings, and enforcing penalties for violations. Contractors must provide workers with protective equipment like helmets, gloves, and shoes. They must also install safety signage and barricades, and provide welfare facilities like drinking water, sanitation, living accommodations, and separate facilities for men and women. The costs for safety measures are to be included in the project budget, and the local government will oversee safety compliance throughout the project duration.
The document outlines occupational safety and health standards for a construction project. It requires contractors to implement a Construction Safety and Health Program (CSHP) that includes appointing safety personnel, conducting meetings, and enforcing penalties for violations. Contractors must provide workers with protective equipment like helmets, gloves, and shoes. They must also install safety signage and barricades, and provide welfare facilities like drinking water, sanitation, living accommodations, and separate facilities for men and women. The costs for safety measures are to be included in the project budget, and the local government will oversee safety compliance throughout the project duration.
The document outlines occupational safety and health standards for a construction project. It requires contractors to implement a Construction Safety and Health Program (CSHP) that includes appointing safety personnel, conducting meetings, and enforcing penalties for violations. Contractors must provide workers with protective equipment like helmets, gloves, and shoes. They must also install safety signage and barricades, and provide welfare facilities like drinking water, sanitation, living accommodations, and separate facilities for men and women. The costs for safety measures are to be included in the project budget, and the local government will oversee safety compliance throughout the project duration.
During the Construction stage the Contractor will be require to implement the Construction Safety and Health Program (CSHP) which they have prepared as part of their submitted technical bid proposal in the 1st envelope. The required CSHP for specific project shall include but not limited to the following: a. composition of the Safety and Health personnel responsible for the proper implementation of CSHP, b. specific safety policies which shall be undertaken in the construction site, including frequency of and persons responsible for conducting toolbox and gang meetings. c. Penalties and sanction for violations of the Construction Safety and Health Program; d. Frequency, content and persons responsible for orienting, instructing and training all workers at the site with regards to the CSHP which they operate; and e. The manner of disposing waste arising from the construction. To ensure that the CSHP are observed and implemented at the project site, at the start of construction a Safety Officer and Health Personnel should be deploy in a full time basis by the Contractor during the construction period. The Contractor shall at his own expense, shall furnish all workers with protective equipment. For general construction work the required basic Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for workers shall be Safety Helmet, Safety Gloves and Safety Shoes. Construction safety Signages and Barricades shall be provided as a precaution and to advice the workers and the general public of the hazards existing in the worksite. Welfare facilities shall be provide in order to ensure humane working conditions; a. adequate supply of safe drinking water; b. adequate sanitary and washing facilities; c. suitable living accommodation for workers, as may be applicable, for their families; and d. separate sanitary, washing and sleeping facilities for men and women workers. The cost required PPEs, clinical materials, signages and barricades and facilities shall be duly quantified and made part of the particular pay item of safety and health. Labor cost for the medical and safety personnel actually assigned in the field shall be included in the overall cost of safety and health. Duration of employment shall be based on the project duration of the particular project. The Project Implementing Unit of _________________ LGU shall supervise, control and monitor the strict implementation of Construction Safety and Health during the full duration of the project. Prepared by: