Effective Workplace Accident Prevention Measures

Definition and Principles of Accident Prevention

What is Prevention?

Prevention is a means of control intended to avoid accidents and their consequences.

General Principles of Accident Prevention

Accident prevention is a discipline based on fundamental principles that constitute the knowledge and techniques to eliminate workplace accidents and occupational diseases. The principles are three:

  1. The interest and active participation of all workers, from the highest manager of an undertaking to the lowest
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Construction Agents: Roles, Responsibilities, and Duties

Construction Agents: Roles and Responsibilities

Meaning: Construction agents encompass all individuals, whether natural or legal persons, involved in the building process.

The Promoter

  1. Any person or entity, public or private, who decides, promotes, and supports the building work for themselves or for subsequent delivery to third parties.
  2. Duties:
    • To hold the title to the site and possess a law authorizing construction.
    • Provide necessary documentation prior to project drafting and authorize the project
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Understanding Capital: Types, Functions, and Significance

Capital: An Economic Perspective

CAPITAL: Among the various meanings of this word in everyday language, its economic significance is derived from lending at interest. The capital or principal is given to generate revenues, serving to obtain some benefit or gain. This is the prevailing concept of capital in economics: the product for a new production.

Capital is formed in a productive first operation. In a second output, the work creates the product and turns it into capital, causing them to play.

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Taylorism vs. Fordism: A Comparative Analysis

Taylorism vs. Fordism

Taylorism

Taylorism, also known as scientific management, is a system for optimizing production through the study of worker movements. Developed by engineer and economist Frederic W. Taylor, it is outlined in his book “Principles of Scientific Management.” Taylorism applies scientific methods to analyze the relationship between workers and industrial production techniques to maximize efficiency. This is achieved through the systematic division of tasks, rational organization

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Effective Decision-Making: Systems, Models, and Databases

Decision Making

Decision making: The process by which a choice is made among alternatives or ways to solve different life situations. These can occur in different contexts: at work, family, or in sentimental relationships.

Decision making at the individual level: It is characterized by a person using their thinking and reasoning to choose a decision for a problem that arises in their life.

Evaluate the alternatives: This consists of a detailed study of each of the possible solutions that were generated

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Building Process: Regulations, Requirements, and Handover

General Provisions

Subject

  1. The regular process of building, establishing obligations, liabilities, and warranties for agents to ensure quality.
  2. Prevention of occupational hazards and specific legislation.
  3. General government contracts.

Scope

  1. The building process, encompassing the action and result of constructing a permanent building (public or private) for primary uses including:
    • a) Administrative, health, religious;
    • b) Aeronautical, hydraulic, mining, sea/river/air transport, forestry, industrial, naval;
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