Major Project Construction Critical Hazard Control Training Course

Course Overview

Learning Objectives

• Identify the critical construction hazards with fatal potential on major projects and define the control standard for each.
• Develop a project-wide construction safety plan with common critical control requirements for the owner, principal contractor, and every subcontractor tier.
• Apply the hierarchy of controls and design risk reduction to remove work at height, excavation, lifting, and electrical exposure before construction.
• Evaluate fall prevention and fall arrest arrangements, including edge protection, scaffolding, elevating work platforms, openings, and rescue.
• Design traffic management arrangements that separate pedestrians from vehicles and mobile plant and control reversing and loading.
• Assess lifting operations through lift planning, crane selection, ground bearing checks, wind limits, and competent lifting roles.
• Apply safe excavation practices covering service detection, support systems, access, edge loading, inspection, and hazardous atmospheres.
• Establish a temporary works procedure with design checks and permit to load and permit to strike controls.
• Implement electrical safety controls for overhead lines, buried cables, temporary site installations, and energy isolation.
• Develop heat stress management plans combining environmental monitoring, acclimatization, work-rest regimes, hydration, and emergency response.
• Verify critical controls in the field through supervisor checks, leadership visits, leading indicators, and stop-work authority.
• Investigate serious potential incidents to identify failed controls and improve standards across the whole project.

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Learning Outcomes

• Identify the construction hazards with fatal potential on a major project and rank them for control.
• Prepare a project-wide construction safety plan with critical control standards that apply to every subcontractor tier.
• Apply design risk reduction and the hierarchy of controls to remove high-risk work before it reaches the site.
• Review work at height arrangements, scaffolding, platforms, fall arrest, and rescue plans and identify gaps.
• Develop traffic management layouts that separate people from vehicles and mobile plant on congested sites.
• Evaluate lift plans, crane setup, ground conditions, and lifting roles for routine and complex lifts.
• Specify safe excavation controls covering service detection, support systems, access, and inspection.
• Implement a temporary works procedure with clear design checks and permit to load and strike controls.
• Apply electrical safety controls for overhead lines, buried cables, temporary installations, and isolation.
• Prepare a heat stress management plan with monitoring, acclimatization, work-rest regimes, and emergency response.
• Verify critical controls in the field and use leading indicators and stop-work authority effectively.
• Investigate serious potential incidents and turn the findings into improved standards across contractors.

Course Outline