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Occupational safety and health problems in civil engineering
Rotary tower cranes, construction machinery, excavators, and stone-shifting equipment - all just technology - but transformed in the human hand into tools for realising ideas and his creative skills!
Who could imagine how much experience is needed to build a house? Who could work out where to deposit a load from a height of 30 metres onto exactly the right spot just as a crane driver must do? And who could begin to guess how much expertise is required to dig a ditch? Not to mention the complications involved in excavating tunnels…
Join us under the ground! Find out what is happening just a few metres under your feet or high above your head in the crane cabin. Fascinating as this is, construction work even today still involves accidents, noise, hazardous substances, heat and cold. These problems too, are addressed at the DASA…
In former times, every brick had to be carried by hand. Nowadays, a crane is used. On ground level this makes things a lot easier. Up above, keeping control and steady nerves are called for. It's very lonely up there and the crane driver is left to his own resources. How does he feel? Ask him yourself on our site telephone!
Children and unauthorised persons are not allowed onto building sites (the "DASA building site" is an exception). There are good reasons for this. Safety is a complicated issue, even for adults…
Want to lend a hand? Standard practice on a building site! Despite all the technology, - lifting and carrying are as much part of the building site as the foreman. But not only there! A demonstration at the DASA sensitises people to "gripping" situations!
