Site-Safety Management in Hong Kong

The construction industry is well known for its complexities and inefficiencies in dealing with human safety and construction processes. The industry itself has been notorious for its high casualty records over many years. Especially in Hong Kong, the concept of improving safety in construction sites has only started to be developed in recent years. The government has set up new ordinances and regulations, and companies are willing to invest more on this issue before the construction commences. Nowadays in Hong Kong, from the small to the sizable, nearly all construction companies have their own site safety plans indicating safety guidelines and protective measures to achieve certain safety standards on the project sites. However, when viewing the past records published by the Labour Department, no trend in injury frequency reduction was noted. Consequently, an effort has been made in this report to compare three different site safety plans of three renowned civil and building contractors were investigate...