What
By developing construction site safety and management interaction the project aims to improve work safety competence of the construction industry in the cross-border area, in order to increase the productivity of the industry as well as reduce social cost and human suffering.
For whom
For the top management, middle management and occupational safety experts of small and medium-sized construction companies in South-East Finland and the St. Petersburg area.
Why
By increasing management-level safety expertise, it is possible to reduce accidents and increase overall productivity on a construction site.
When
From November 1st 2018 to October 30th 2021
Who
LAB University of Applied Sciences (LAB) as the main partner. Other partners are South-East Finland University of Applied Sciences (Xamk), St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (GASU) and Pushkin Leningrad State University (LSU).
How
The measures are divided between four work packages.
Workpackage 1 (Xamk & LSU)
Xamk produces guidelines for the top management to improve motivation and attitude towards occupational safety at construction sites.
LSU studies the organizational, psychological and cultural factors that affect occupational safety on construction sites in Northwest Russia.
Workpackage 2 (LAB)
LAB studies the occupational safety work of on-site managers and safety experts on a construction site, and developes a training program that takes into account cultural and individual differences in the interaction between middle management and employees.
Workpackage 3 (GASU)
GASU builds an interactive training environment, an occupational safety park in St. Petersburg, where the results of work packages 1 and 2 are implemented in occupational safety training.
Workpackage 4 (all)
The result of work packages 1-3 will be put into practice through various workshops, trainings and publications considering different target groups.
For more information, please visit the official project website safecon.fi
Xamk Activities and outputs
2020-2021
Work package 4
- Implementing the WP 1 results
- Articles, workshops, trainings
- Final report
- Final seminar 10/2021
2019-2020
Work package 1
- Top Management Seminar April 4th 2019
- The results of the first work package, Guidelines For The Top Management
- Expert lectures (Tarja Mäki, Mittaviiva Oy, ja Mika Paavilainen, Jalon Rakentajat Oy) on occupational safety management
Work package 4
- Articles
- Webinar 10/2020 Lean in construction site safety management
- COMING – A podcast based on the guidelines
2018-2019
Work package 1
- Review of previous research
- Top managements interviews
- Get to know the company’s safety culture
- Identify challenges which may be affected by the project
- Review of safety attitudes
- Commitment of companies to project activities
- Benchmarking workshop for Top Management based on the interviews
- Based on the interviews and the workshop, Guidelines for Top Management
- means to promote and develop top managements’ own motivation and attitude towards occupational safety
For more information, please visit the official project website safecon.fi