Deba Prasad Mishra, Nihal Anwar Siddiqui, Prasenjit Mondal and Paritosh Srivastava
Abstract
The work at height is altogether well recognized as the high-risk life critical activity in construction industry. During project construction work continues, at any point of time 40~45% of the work forces are working above the ground level. Working at height required advance job planning, hazard assessment, resource mobilization and control measures. Due to lack of organizational understanding on the value of safety, the life of poor innocent worker has been kept in dangerous situation. In most of the time safety has been ignored to get the work progress. Even if the well-defined procedure and rules are in place to guide the organization about their duty and responsibilities towards safety, but those were not followed fully due to various underlaying factors in the system. The attempt has been made to address the invisible problems in the system, which are responsible for compelling to create unsafe situations at workplace and provide engineering control as a solution to minimize the workplace work at height fall protection issues.