I have clearly identified the area where most onsite hazard communication tends to fail and control is lost: middle management.
For the past several years, I've been writing safety and health articles for Roofing Contractor, addressing safety issues of concern to roofing employers and related industries. Concurrently, I have continued safety and rescue training for workers in the building trades and emergency services as well as auditing and consulting with contractors throughout the Northeast. I have interviewed hundreds of workers and their managers, asking them to critically estimate their successes and failures in workplace safety. As a result, I have clearly identified the area where most onsite hazard communication tends to fail and control is lost: middle management.
Murphy's Law of Construction Scheduling has three guiding rules: 1) Whenever the schedule changes, time allotments are inevitably reduced, never expanded; 2) Whenever an unforeseen problem occurs, it will always be on a short-man day; 3) Most accidents occur at the worst possible time in the schedule, location on the job site and meteorological conditions. A chain of unrelated accidents may occur next.