Element 1: Construction Law & Mgmt Flashcards
Outline roles of clients
- Make suitable arrangemnets for managing a project, including the allocation of sufficient time and other resources
- Provide preconstruction information as soon as is practicable to every designer and contractor on the project
- Ensure that before the construction phase phase begins, a construction phase plan is drawn up by the principle contractor
- Ensure that the principle designer prepares a health and safety file for the project
Outline whats included in the construction phase plan
The construction phase plan sets out arrangemnets for securing health and safety during the construction phase including site rules, any particular measure of work involving particular risks.
It is drawn up by the principle contractor during the preconstruction phase and before the site is set up.
It must take into account the information the principle designer holds and must be reviewed, updated and revised during the construction phase to ensure it remains effective
Outline roles of contractors
- Plan, manage, monitor construction works under their control
- Co-ordinate activities with others in the project team
- Comply with directions given by the principle designer or principle contractor
- Ensure that persons they employ have the neccessary skills, knowledge, training and experience to secure their health and safety
- Provide appropriate supervision, instruction and information
Identify construction issues
- Transitory nature of construction workers
- Temporary nature of construction activities and the constantly changing workplace
- Time pressures from clients and principle contractors
- Weather conditions
- Levels of numeracy or literacy in workers
- Non-english speaking workers
Outline roles of designers
- Seek to avoid hazards or minimise risk by effective design
- Where risk cannot be avoided provide adequate information with design
Identify the information that might be contained in the health and safety file
- Brief description of work
- Drawings
- Survey information and groundwork plans
- Location of services
- Key structural issues and safe loading of floors, roofs etc
- Safety information regarding hazardous substances
- Any maintenance issues
- Methods of safe access
- Manufacturers instructions
Outline roles of principle designers
- Prepare the health and safety file
- Plan, manage, monitor and coordinate health and safety in the pre-construction phase of the project
- Identify, eliminate or control foreseeable risks and ensure designers carry out there duty
- Prepare and provide relevant information to other duty holders, in particular principle contractors to help them plan, manage, monitor and co-ordinate health and safety in the construction phase
Reasons for Managing Health and Safety
Moral
Legal
Financial
Types of construction work
- Building works
- Renovations
- Alterations
- Maintenance of existing premises
- Civil engineering
- Decommissioning
- Demolition
Identify range of construction activities
- Site clearance
- Excavation
- Loading and unloading
- Handling and storage of equipment and construction materials
- Movement of plant, machinery, vehicles and people around the site
- Use of access equipment
- Fabrication
- Decoration
- Cleaning
- Intallation, removal and maintenance services
- Landscaping
Outline roles of the principal contractor
- Plan, manage, monitor and co-ordinate health and safety in the construction phase of a project
- Prepare the construction phase plan
- Organise co-operation between contractors
- Co-ordinating implementation by the contractors of legal requirements for health and safety
- Liaise with the client and principle designer and share information relevant to the planning, management and monitoring of the pre-construction phase, and the co-ordination of health and safety during the pre-construction phase
- Ensure that workers are consulted and engaged in securing their health and safety
Meaning of ‘excavation’
Any trench, shaft, tunnel or underground working
Meaning of ‘stucture’
any building whether timber, masonry, metal or reinforced concrete, including scaffolding, falsework, mast or towers.
External sources of information
- Manufacturers data
- Legislation
- HSE publications
- Trade organisations
- Professional bodies
