The Last Mile: Safety Management Implementation in Construction Sites

Table 10

The Pairing and Banding scheme.

Pairing	Banding
(1) All members of a working group must have a safety partner. The assignment must be clearly understood and documented, either in writing or on a chart.	(1) Set up bands across pairs and workgroups with shared responsibility on safety during work. Two or more workers must coordinate during their task and ensure the safety of each other.
(2) Before starting work, the group leader should reaffirm or adjust the pairing assignment based on the attendance of the day and other personnel changes. In every task, the workers must make sure the pairing scheme takes effect and fulfill their responsibility.	(2) Partners should constantly alert each other during work:
	(i) Remind the partner of unsafe behaviors and situations to prevent accidents from happening. Maintain correspondence through calling and answering.
	(ii) Mutual caring: allocate tasks reasonably and help each other during work.
	(iii) Mutual supervision: make sure the partner strictly follows standards on wearing protective equipments and adheres to safety procedures and regulations.
(3) Partners should be paired in a complementary manner, for example, the junior with the senior, the old with the young, the male with the female, the strong with the less powerful, the hasty with the calm, and the bold with the diffident.	(3) Whenever necessary, remind workers other than the designated partner of unsafe behaviors and situations to prevent accidents from happening. Maintain correspondence through calling and answering.