Trying to write a safety program?

Each and every project should have a Site Specific Safety Program that is dialed in on the hazards identified on that particular site. Now we all know that the vast majority of our scope of work doesn't change and the hazards may stay the same in that respect, but, site conditions may change and/or GC requirements may be different. Completing a thorough pre-construction safety briefing with the project management team can be beneficial in identifying site hazards.

So where do you get the information to actually create the program? Past experience? Maybe, but sometimes its not that easy to sit down and just dream up the verbage that goes on paper. Don't worry its called writers block and we all get from time to time.

The worst thing you can do is plagarize yourself by just changing the header on a past SSSP and try to pass it off as a new version for a different project. Bosses seem to catch on to this.

The following link can be used as a very good starting point in creating your safety program. It will have downloads for each section you will need to create a great safety program or policy.

http://www.csao.org/health_and_safety_program/index.cfm