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Safety and health in construction
17.2.3. Monitoring and control of the working environment and planning of
safety and health precautions should be performed as prescribed by national laws and
regulations.
17.2.4. A multiplicity of health hazards are present in construction work and
every effort should be made to promote awareness of this fact and of the need to
safeguard health.
17.2.5. Whenever new products, equipment and working methods are introduced,
special attention should be paid to informing and training workers with respect to the
implications for safety and health.
17.3. First aid
17.3.1. The employer should be responsible for ensuring that first aid, including
the provision of trained personnel, is available. Arrangements should be made for
ensuring the removal for medical attention of workers who have suffered an accident or
sudden illness.
17.3.2. The manner in which first-aid facilities and personnel are to be provided
should be prescribed by national laws or regulations, and drawn up after consulting the
competent health authority and the most representative organisations of employers and
workers concerned.
17.3.3. Where the work involves risk of drowning, asphyxiation or electric shock,
first-aid personnel should be proficient in the use of resuscitation and other life-saving
techniques and in rescue procedures.
17.3.4. Suitable rescue and resuscitation equipment, as required, including
stretchers should be kept readily available at the construction site.
17.3.5. First-aid kits or boxes, as appropriate, should be provided at the
workplaces, including isolated locations such as maintenance gangs, and on motor
vehicles, locomotives, boats and floating equipment, and be protected against
contamination by dust, moisture, etc.
17.3.6. First-aid kits and boxes should not contain anything besides material for
first aid in emergencies.
17.3.7. First-aid kits and boxes should contain simple and clear instructions to be
followed, be kept under the charge of a responsible person qualified to render first aid
and be regularly inspected and kept properly stocked.
17.3.8. If a minimum number of workers as prescribed is employed in any shift,
at least one suitably equipped first-aid room or station under the charge of qualified
first-aid personnel or a nurse should be provided at a readily accessible place for
treatment of minor injuries and as a rest place for seriously sick or injured workers.
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