Buildings are the foundation of human society because when they are connected with key infrastructure, they form cities, town and community living and working spaces. To achieve safety of buildings and other construction structure, sites used for this make such legacies need to be secured in a systematic manner. The following are essential 7 steps that Francsoft Construction Company Limited takes to ensure safety of building and construction sites. These steps make us your reliable building construction partner, unique and professional compared to our competitors in the Kenyan, regional and global competitive spaces.

1. Performing Thorough Risk Assessments

Before we commence any works at a site, we perform through risk assessments to identify any potential hazards specific to it. Such risks include falls, electrical hazards, dangers associated with use of heavy machinery or equipment, and our soil and tests reveal presence of heavy metals and other substances and ground instabilities. We do all these assessments to ensure the safety of our workers and materials and equipment. After identifying a complete profile of the risks and hazards present, we put in place the right measures to curb them. Doing so ensures that work will progress without any incidences that could disrupt it otherwise.

2. Creating a Comprehensive Safety Plan

Officially, Francsoft develops with its clients a comprehensive safety plan based on our earlier mentioned risk assessments that is communicated to all building and construction stakeholders. The stakeholders include the owner, any regulatory agency or authority represented; our professional team on the ground and communities affected. While this process is done mostly at the beginning, we continuously on a daily basis hold refresher training meetings with our team of workers on the ground. Safety measures in the plan are emphasized during such daily meetings and any incidences reported handled appropriately.

3. Providing Extensive Overall Safety Training and Orientations

At Francsoft, we go beyond site-specific safety training for our workers by offering them continuous in-house safety training and orientations. These processes are done within the premises of our construction company. Here, we model different safety incidences anticipated for different building and construction needs and clients and demonstrate how to handle them. From basic and advanced firefighting skills to handling falls and electrical safety protocols, we go above and beyond. We have curriculums specifically for safety training and orientations and invite experienced field mentors and trainers to perform these processes.

4. Ensuring Proper Use of PPE

We provide our workers with personally protective equipment (PPE) at all sites and construction sites. Before any work begins, we train them through refresher training and orientations, as mentioned before, on how to use such properly. We do not leave anything to chance even for the most experienced workers to eliminate human error and ignorance. Emphasis is placed on importance of proper use of PPE even for tasks that might seem safe and easy to do without them. PPE includes safety goggles, hard hats and helmets, high-visibility clothing, steel-toed and reinforced boots and safety clothing and gloves.

We believe at Francsoft that PPE are very important and so is their proper use. From past experience, our team has managed to work safety even during night hours whenever necessary or allowable because of this practice. Therefore, we have invested heavily on their use and applications. Also, we have trained our workers to maintain them well and make replacements whenever they are worn out. Notably, many incidences involving human injuries and accidences are connected to failure of proper use of PPE in Kenya and beyond. Therefore, we do not take chances of failing to properly training our workers on their salience.

5. Maintaining Clean and Organized Sites

Another important practice that Francsoft undertakes to ensure that our building and construction sites are safe is doing excellent housekeeping on a daily basis. We ensure tidy, clean and organized sites free from debris and other waste materials, loose nails and clutter. These hazards are associated with many incidences of falls, tripping and injuries. We value our team of workers who are not only talented but also committed to our course of providing excellent finished works in building and construction. Therefore, we train them and ensure they do high quality housekeeping work and keep all materials and equipment organized and clean.

6. Regular Site and Equipment Inspections

Francsoft supervising team ensures that there is regular site visits and equipment inspections to note any issues and ensure our safety standards are held high. We inspect scaffoldings and other supportive structures, material and resources quality, tools and machinery integrity and address all issues noted promptly. Any overhanging hazards and defects are noted quickly and addressed accordingly to ensure they do not persist to cause issues. When tools and equipment are worn out, we tag and take them away from the site for maintenance if they cannot be repaired onsite.

7. Fostering a Culture of Safety and Open Communication

Our construction company, Francsoft, is built on a culture of safety and open communication. We empower all stakeholders in a site to communicate openly and honestly without any fear or favor. We offer listening ears to their concerns and address them with amicable solutions. Our workers, permanent, temporary or contracted, can freely voice any concerns about safety and other issues to our top management. We have a flat organizational structure when it comes to management of our company that we believe fosters this culture. Then, we extend the same culture to our clients and other project-specific stakeholders, yet another competitive edge we have.

In summary, it requires all the stakeholders in a building and construction site to come together to ensure attainment of safety based on Francsoft’s culture of safety and open communication. We believe that charity starts at home; thus, we have upheld such a culture at our core management structure for a long time. This organization culture has given us a competitive edge other players in the field of building and construction. We excel and pride ourselves in it setting a clear and good example to others.