Civil Engineering Project Management (4th Edition)

Contents ix
10.3 The Health and Safety Plan required under CDM Regulations 109
10.4 The Health and Safety File required under CDM Regulations 110
10.5 Training 111
10.6 Approved Code of Practice under CDM Regulations 111
10.7 The Management of Health and Safety at 112
Work Regulations 1999
10.8 Risk assessment 113
Reasonably practicable 114
10.9 The Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) 115
Regulations 1996
10.10 Other major regulations 115
Publications 119
11 Starting the construction work 120
11.1 Pre-commencement meeting and start-up arrangements 120
11.2 The contractor’s initial work 121
11.3 The resident engineer’s work 122
Work before going to site 122
The site office 123
11.4 Early matters to discuss with the agent 124
11.5 Some early tasks for the resident engineer 125
11.6 Meeting the employer 125
11.7 Setting up the clerical work 126
12 Site surveys, investigations and layout 128
12.1 Responsibility 128
12.2 Levelling 129
12.3 Plane surveying 129
12.4 Setting out verticality, tunnels and pipelines 130
12.5 Setting out floor levels 131
12.6 Site investigations 132
12.7 Trial pits 132
12.8 Exploratory holes 133
Rotary core drilling 133
Light cable percussion drilling 134
Percussion drilling 135
12.9 Other means of ground investigation 135
12.10 Judging the safe bearing value of a foundation 136
12.11 Testing apparatus for a site soils laboratory 136
For moisture content determinations 136
For grading analyses of soils 137
For in situ density test (sand replacement method) 137
For compaction tests 137
12.12 Site layout considerations 138
Haulage roads 138
Planning bulk excavation 139