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Abstract
The Zuikerbosch System 5A Water Purification Plant, launched in August 2025, as Africa’s largest state of the art water purification facility, recorded the achievement as the developer’s first ‘construction work permit’ project completed with zero fatalities. This large-scale project valued at R4.8 billion and designed to deliver 600 Mℓ/day of potable water, included extensive stakeholder participation, multiple contractors, and client appointed construction project managers, designers, quantity surveyors, health and safety (H&S) professionals and asset engineers across diverse disciplines in a highly complex project environment. The paper reviews literature pertaining to project stakeholder H&S involvement in the six project stages. It analyses System 5A project’s H&S performance metrics namely incident statistics and recorded non-conformances (NCs) and evaluates the existing project documentation against an established client project H&S criteria checklist previously developed for the six project stages. In addition, this study examines H&S improvements since the promulgation of the Construction Regulations, 2014. The findings provide practical insights in terms of improving risk management, design decisions, and project stakeholder involvement to prevent incidents and H&S failures. These lessons provide a framework for the forthcoming System 5B duplicate plant for continuous improvement, aimed at advancing H&S performance in future large-scale infrastructure projects.
Keywords
Continuous Improvement, Health and Safety, Involvement, Multi-Stakeholder, Performance, Stages
Recommended Citation
Malindi, Rajandree Mandy and Smallwood, John Julian
(2026)
"Advancing Health And Safety Performance On A Large-Scale Infrastructure Water Purification Plant Project,"
CIB Conferences: Vol. 2
Article 78.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7771/3067-4883.2156