RLB_UK_Riders_Digest_2013

UK CONSTRUCTION INFORMATION
Client
Duties
Excludes
Domestic
Clients
carrying out
construction
work to a
residential
property for
their own
or family
residential use
(but not where
the work/
extension
would be
for a trade/
business use,
irrespective of
whether or not
for profit)
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All Construction Projects
Check own competence and resources and check
competence and resources of all appointees; Lead
designer, designers and contractors and ensure
all appointed early enough for their respective
roles. Clarify team roles. Allow sufficient time and
resources for all stages.
Ensure the designers and contractors are issued
with the pre-construction information as early
as possible; project specific health and safety
information needed to identify hazards and risks
associated with the design and construction work.
Update and issue as appropriate, in respect of
any further information and/or ongoing design or
additional designers or contractors.
Take account of the general principles of prevention
- Management of Health and Safety at Work
Regulations 1999
Co-operate with others concerned to enable those
duty holders to comply with their duties.
Co-ordinate with others involved in order to ensure
the safety of those carrying out the construction
work and others who may be affected.
Ensure, so far as reasonably practicable, that there
are suitable management arrangements for the
project including welfare facilities for the duration of
the project so the works can be carried out safely
and without risk to health. The measures should
focus on the needs of the particular job and be
proportionate to the risks arising from the work.
Where the works to be carried out will be a fixed
workplace, ensure the works will comply with the
Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations
1992 in respect of their design and materials used.
Vital that those
doing the works
understand the
risks involved and
how to manage
them.
Architect,
Lead designer
or contractor
carrying out bulk
of design work
should normally
co-ordinate the
health and safety
aspects of the
design work
Builder or main
contractor
should normally
co-ordinate
construction
work.
No need for a
written plan, may
be sufficient to
provide a brief
summary which
clearly sets out
who does what,
in what order.
Depends on
nature of work,
parties involved
etc.
What Clients should do their best to avoid:
materials or methods of working will mean the Client will become
a designer in relation to those specific matters and/or managing or
carrying out construction work as they will become a contractor