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Throughout the world, safety requirements in the construction industry are becoming increasingly important. The multitude of applicable guidelines, regulations and requirements all have one thing in common: they all aim to make construction sites safer – irrespective of whether they are applicable worldwide, nin Europe or only in certain countries. All the same, the issue of safety should be of paramount importance to companies on account of their responsibility towards personnel, not simply because of the necessity to meet legal requirements. A high degree of safety is also a quality characteristic. It is advantageous to companies on several fronts: after all,promoting health and safety in the workplace also benefits the company from an economic point of view.

Safety is a topic that is relevant to all parties that are involved in the construction project and are present at the construction site. In Germany, for example, it is primarily the client who bears overall responsibility and can therefore be held jointly liable. However, architects, site managers and coordinators from companies working on the construction site may also be held liable for accidents.

So what are the specific measures that help to improve the level of safety on construction sites? It is important to have a comprehensive safety concept that takes a holistic approach to all phases of the project rather than focusing merely on a subsection of the construction process. This is where the PERI safety concept comes in. It consists of four elements that come together to provide an outstanding level of safety on the construction site: system, application, process and result. In addition, however, the costeffectiveness of the systems also has a significant role to play, meaning that the benefit to the customer is, in an ideal scenario, two-fold.