SAFETY AWARDS

    ‘Construction Safety’ is a key factor occupying the minds of Construction industry professionals and companies alike. To create maximum awareness of Construction Safety and to transform and inculcate it in organization’s culture, PCERF has been organizing ‘Construction Safety Awards’, known as PCERF – Kumar Beharay Construction Safety Awards’. The overall approach and methodology of awards focuses on the education and improvements in the knowledge level of participants and the audit system about construction safety at site. The latest edition (10th in series) of these awards has been initiated herewith for the year 2023.

    The Award provides a perfect avenue to engage different layers from this sector including contractors, site management and frontline workers in promoting Safety, Health & Environmental culture.

Award Categories

The awards are constituted for the following categories :

Building Contractors - A
Who have participated 3 times or more in previous PCERF Safety Awards Competitions.
Project Value Above 100Cr.
Any one of above criteria should satisfy.
Building Contractors - B
Who have participated less than 3 times in previous PCERF Safety Awards Competitions or participating first time.
Project Value Less Than 100Cr.
Any one of above criteria should satisfy.
Building Developers - A
Who have participated 3 times or more in previous PCERF Safety Awards Competitions.
Project Value Above 300Cr.
Any one of above criteria should satisfy.
Building Developers - B
Who have participated less than 3 times in previous PCERF Safety Awards Competitions or participating first time.
Project Value Less Than 300Cr.
Any one of above criteria should satisfy.
Industrial Projects
Any site engaged in industrial buildings, Development of industrial Area.
No project cost limitations.
Infra-Structure
Projects related to infrastructure development like Flyovers, Metro Rail, Highway Projects, STP, Sea Link projects, Tunnels, River front projects, Water supply, Heritage restoration Projects etc.
No project cost limitations.
Government Projects
Projects being executed through PWD, CPWD, MES or any other Government agencies other than Infra projects as mentioned above.
Shall be residential buildings, Office buildings, Institutes etc.
No project cost limitations.

Other Criteria

  • Sites shall be at a stage between 25% to 75% of progress during start of competition period i.e. August 2023.
  • Entries to be submitted to PCERF office latest by 15th July 2023.
  • Entries shall not be accepted, if the company has been convicted for any contravention with regard to safety, health and environment provisions and / or if any fatal accident/s occurred in recent past.
  • Any special projects which are not as per above categories, shall be suitably categarised in consultation with the jury members with these categories only. And the same shall be intimated to the participating company.
  • There shall be two awards in each category, i.e. Gold Trophy & Silver Trophy.
  • First site visit shall be in the month of August 2023 and second visit shall be in October 2023. First visit will a pre-scheduled visit and second visit will be surprise visit.
  • Other details of the competition shall be presented during ORIENTATION MEETING which shall be conducted before start of the site visits.

A “Gold & Silver Helmet Trophy” and certificate will be awarded to the Winner & First Runner-up in each category respectively in a ceremony. A “Certificate of Appreciation” will be given to all participating companies.


PCERF - KUMAR BEHARAY CONSTRUCTION SAFETY AWARD - 2023

    The idea of the Construction Safety Awards is not just to award a good site, but to overall improve the quality and standards of working within the sector by giving relevant feedback and suggestions. Another iWith an aim of spreading awareness among the construction sector about safety measures, PCERF (Pune Construction Engineering Research Foundation) has invited entries for ‘PCERF-Kumar Beharay Construction Safety Award- 2023’.This is the 9th year of this distinguished award for which the developers, contractors, owners of companies have applied. The entries for this award are accepted in 7 different categories of construction projects including Residential, Industrial, Infrastructure, Commercial/Semi-Commercial, Debut Company sites, Innovation in Construction Safety and Small Projects (with project cost up to Rs. 50 lac).

    The Construction Safety awards organised by PCERF is one of the most effective methods of creating awareness and raising the standard on construction sites with regards to safety measures. It also helps boost a healthy professional competition among within the construction organisations. The plus point of the awards is, that it is being organised and executed in terms of assessment by professionals from the industry- safety officers, engineers and architects, who give in their time voluntarily for the betterment of the profession. The process is completely transparent, non-biased and with a great emphasis on a quality audit.Important aspect of the awards is that, any participant can share their experience with respect to best engineering practice to the outer world. PCERF from the organisers point of view ensure that the same is spread to construction field.




SCHEDULE

  • Date coming soon

    Launch / 1st Circular

  • Date coming soon

    2nd Circular

  • Date coming soon

    3rd Circular

  • Date coming soon

    Last Circular

  • Date coming soon

    Last Date of Entry

  • Date coming soon

    Identifying / Finalizing Jury Members

  • Date coming soon

    Interaction / Orientation Meeting

  • Date coming soon

    1st Site Visit by Jury

  • Date coming soon

    Feedback to Participants

  • Date coming soon

    2nd Site Visit by Jury

  • Date coming soon

    Award Distribution Ceremony


METHODOLOGY

A. The process of the Awards is three staged.

  • First will be a pre-visit meeting with all stakeholders/participants, jury members and organising committee; wherein the guidelines and general procedure will be shared and discussed in detail.
    Following this will be two site visits by the jury teams. Before the actual visits, the concerned site engineers and execution team will be given guidelines of the awards and general procedure to be followed.
  • The first being an intensive and extensive one that will look at all site working and habitable conditions and documentation procedures. The first site visit review report will be sent to the individual sites with suggestion or points wherein improvement is possible. This will enable the sites to be better prepared for the second visit, and for their own betterment.
  • The second site visit - a surprise one - will be done few weeks after the first visit. During this period between the first and second visit, the site will try to make improvements and changes as suggested by the jury team. In this period there shall be technical interaction between the organising experts and site officials for exchange of ideas and procedures concerned to best practical ways. During this visit there will be a quick review of follow up of suggestions and improvements done after the first site visit.
    The winning site will be decided by the jury, based on the site visit reports.