Construction Planned Inspectional Initiative
The Construction Planned Inspectional Initiative is designed to reduce the construction industry’s serious injury rate and the time-loss claims rate by taking a risk-based approach. The construction time-loss claims rate and serious injury rate are consistently higher than overall provincial injury rates. Serious injuries account for approximately 19 percent of claims in construction.
- Our goal
- Our focus
- Related focus areas
- What you can do
Our goal
Reduce time-loss claims rate and prevent serious and fatal injuries in the construction industry.
Our focus
2023 inspectional approach
For 2023 inspections, prevention officers will take a risk-based approach to ensure that the most significant risks are effectively managed. This approach involves workers and employers identifying hazards, evaluating risks, and implementing the appropriate controls specific to the on-site activities. In addition, it focuses on employers ensuring that these efforts are effectively communicated to workers and monitored through foundational occupational health and safety systems such as new and young worker orientations, training, supervision, incident investigations, worksite inspections, and (where applicable) joint health and safety committees that are effective, robust, and well supported.
- Falls from elevation
Falls from elevation continue to drive the serious injury rate in construction. - Struck-by mobile equipment
Struck-by injuries continue to drive the serious injury rate and are currently surpassing falls from elevation in terms of the number of injury claims. - High voltage limits of approach
Working in proximity to high voltage power lines is a high risk work activity and inadequate controls continue to put workers at risk of serious injury or death during the construction phase of building structures, during ongoing maintenance of building structures, and during ongoing movement of equipment and materials on a worksite.
Learn more about this risk in our “Plan for 10” campaign. - Musculoskeletal and repetitive strain injuries (MSI and RSI)
Overexertion injuries are the most prevalent type of musculoskeletal injury claims in the construction industry.
Related focus areas
- Tower cranes and mobile equipment
See our Crane and Mobile Equipment Planned Inspectional Initiative for details on our focus and activities. - Occupational Disease Initiative
See our Occupational Disease Planned Inspectional Initiative for details on our focus and activities.
Partnerships and collaborations
We will work with internal and external stakeholders such as the BC Construction Safety Alliance (BCCSA), to encourage and foster communication, in order to proactively respond to evolving industry challenges and to new and emerging risk areas.
What you can do
A healthy and safe workplace is a shared responsibility. The following resources will help you better understand and address some of the health and safety issues to focus on in your industry. For more resources and information, please visit our Construction pages.
Supervisor Safety Resources
This quick reference sheet presents health and safety resources that employers and supervisors will find useful.
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Manufactured Scaffolding Safety Resources
This quick reference sheet presents health and safety resources that employers will find useful when working with manufactured scaffolding.
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Is this the right tool for the job? Stepladder safety in construction
Describes step-ladder safety to reduce the risk of falling.