Table 1: Summary of the literature review of project manager’s role factors in the pre-construction phase.

S.No A Project Manager’s Role and Responsibility Factors in the Pre-Construction Phase References
[28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [12] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38]
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1 Setting H&S objectives
2 Categorising the tasks of the project within OHS implications
3 Making a worksheet for sorting risks associated to the construction activities according to the hazard types of fall, slip, trip, struck by object or equi-project management, etc
4 Consulting workers on H&S matters
5 Picking a professional consultant who makes a safe design
6 Making sure that client allocates definite funds to promote health and safety in project.
7 Allowing adequate time and resources during all the stages of the project.
8 Providing free health and safety training for the client staff
9 Defining ways to promote and consolidate OHS in the tender stage
10 Changing the mind of the designers towards safety
11 Integrating H&S information into the drawings
12 Providing a motivational energy to enhance the principle of safe design
13 Ensuring that risky material is taken into consideration when determining the materials
14 Integrating the principles of constructability into the design
15 Controlling design change
16 Establishing reasonable regulation when new structures, materials, or techniques are approved in the project
17 Planning tasks at the design phase through a time schedule, citing the duration of processes and dividing it into steps and process priority
18 Ensuring that OHS is a portion of the main objectives of the project and it is comprised at the subject of the tender
19 Understanding the market to evaluate the ability of the contractors in the local market to achieve the required standards
20 Formulating an H&S-documented specification, particularly for the construction works
21 Using pre-qualifications for the contractor and taking OHS into consideration
22 Selecting only those subcontractors who have a good record and provide on-the-job training
23 Ensuring that principal contractors have made provision for the H&S-related costs in their tenders.”
24 Requiring the contractor to include the programme to combat drug abuse, stimulants, child labour, etc. in the contractor’s OHS programme.
25 Ensuring that the contractor places at least one full-time H&S representative on the project
26 Ensuring that appropriate Personal Protective Equiproject managerent (PPE) is provided to all the workers free of charge