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Centralized HSE Cost Planning for Sustainable Safety Implementation: A Case Study of Cost Coverage, Pricing Gaps and Resource Readiness
Subject area: Science,Engineering and Technology · Area of research: Health, Safety and Environment
Abstract
Sustainable safety implementation depends on identifying and pricing required HSE resources early enough for them to be available when risk exposure begins. Centralized, reusable HSE cost catalogues improve consistency but can also reproduce unresolved master-data gaps across every dependent estimate. This single-organization documentary case study examined description overlap, price completeness, recurrent unit-rate exceptions and safety-resource implementation readiness in a connected HSE planning archive. Eight confidential workbooks were reviewed as one archive: one central materials reference, three material schedules each paired with a monthly staffing schedule, and one general manpower reference. Of 367 active material-line instances, 346 (94.3%) contained positive numeric rates. Among 125 distinct normalized descriptions, 119 (95.2%) appeared in all three configurations. Seven unique missing-rate descriptions occurred in each of the three dependent schedules, producing 21 schedule-level exception instances (7 x 3). Closing those defects at the master-record level requires seven source corrections instead of 21 schedule-specific corrections, a 66.7% reduction in master-record correction actions; when the three necessary schedule revalidations are also counted, the action count becomes 10 instead of 21, a 52.4% reduction. Traffic-management and training items together accounted for 12 of 21 recurring exception instances (57.1%). The findings support earlier conversion of HSE scope into complete, cost-ready manpower and material requirements so that required controls can be resourced before exposure begins. A separate normalized expenditure illustration demonstrates possible arithmetic associated with non-peak staffing adjustment and inspected material reuse; it is not an audited saving or measured safety outcome.
Keywords
Construction safety, HSE cost planning, master-data quality, price completeness, resource readiness.
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How to cite this paper
@article{1723647,
author = {Shajahan Abdul Salam},
title = {Centralized HSE Cost Planning for Sustainable Safety Implementation: A Case Study of Cost Coverage, Pricing Gaps and Resource Readiness},
journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
year = {2024},
volume = {8},
number = {2},
pages = {1445-1457},
issn = {2456-8880},
url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/1723647.pdf},
abstract = {Sustainable safety implementation depends on identifying and pricing required HSE resources early enough for them to be available when risk exposure begins. Centralized, reusable HSE cost catalogues improve consistency but can also reproduce unresolved master-data gaps across every dependent estimate. This single-organization documentary case study examined description overlap, price completeness, recurrent unit-rate exceptions and safety-resource implementation readiness in a connected HSE planning archive. Eight confidential workbooks were reviewed as one archive: one central materials reference, three material schedules each paired with a monthly staffing schedule, and one general manpower reference. Of 367 active material-line instances, 346 (94.3%) contained positive numeric rates. Among 125 distinct normalized descriptions, 119 (95.2%) appeared in all three configurations. Seven unique missing-rate descriptions occurred in each of the three dependent schedules, producing 21 schedule-level exception instances (7 x 3). Closing those defects at the master-record level requires seven source corrections instead of 21 schedule-specific corrections, a 66.7% reduction in master-record correction actions; when the three necessary schedule revalidations are also counted, the action count becomes 10 instead of 21, a 52.4% reduction. Traffic-management and training items together accounted for 12 of 21 recurring exception instances (57.1%). The findings support earlier conversion of HSE scope into complete, cost-ready manpower and material requirements so that required controls can be resourced before exposure begins. A separate normalized expenditure illustration demonstrates possible arithmetic associated with non-peak staffing adjustment and inspected material reuse; it is not an audited saving or measured safety outcome.},
keywords = {Construction safety, HSE cost planning, master-data quality, price completeness, resource readiness.},
month = {August},
}