Health and Safety in Construction

Task 1 - Roles and Responsibilities 1. The people who are responsible for health and safety on a project: a) Site Manager b) Assistant Site Manager The assistant site manger role will be keeping records associated with safety e.g. statutory inspections, including records required by CDM for hazard management e.g. sub-contractors method statements etc and anything else required by statue or included in the Construction Phase Plan and by the relevant procedures in the contractors Manual of Quality, Safety and the Environment. In addition to this the assistant site manager would be consistent with what the employer and site manager wishes it to be and which would be dependent or limited to the level of the assistant site managers competence especially in relation to the health and safety issues. c) CDM Co-ordinator The main duties of CDM co-ordinators are to advise and assist the client in meeting their duties as a client under the Regulations, in particular the duty to: • • appoint competent designers and contractors make sure adequate arrangements are in place for managing the project notify HSE about the project co-ordinate design work, planning and other preparation for construction, where relevant to health and safety identify and collect the pre-construction information and advise the client if surveys need to be commissioned to fill significant gaps provide promptly – and in a convenient form – to those involved with the design of the structure, and to every contractor (including the principal contractor) who may be or has been appointed by the client, such parts of the pre-construction information as are relevant manage the flow of health and safety information between clients, designers and contractors advise the client on the suitability of the initial construction phase plan and the arrangements made to ensure welfare facilities are on site from the start produce or update a relevant user-friendly health and safety file suitable for use at the end of the