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CDM - The Role of The Principal Contractor

CDM - The Role of The Principal Contractor. By John Johnston AIIRSM Health and Safety for Beginners www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk. The Role of The Principal Contractor.

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CDM - The Role of The Principal Contractor

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  1. CDM - The Role of The Principal Contractor By John Johnston AIIRSM Health and Safety for Beginners www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk

  2. The Role of The Principal Contractor • The Principal Contractor has to take over and develop the health and safety plan and co-ordinate the activities of ALL contractors to ensure they comply with health and safety law. www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk

  3. The Role of The Principal Contractor • The Principal contractor’s key duties are: • To develop the health and safety plan and ensure it contains all the necessary information for implementation • To arrange for competent and adequately resourced contractors and ensure they comply with the provisions of the health and safety plan and its specific rules www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk

  4. The Role of The Principal Contractor • To ensure the co-ordination and co-operation of all contractors including the self-employed • To obtain the main findings of contractors’ risk assessments and details of how they intend to manage their high risk operations • To ensure that ALL contractors have information about any risks on site that the project will bring about www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk

  5. The Role of The Principal Contractor • To ensure that workers on the project have been given adequate training and information about risks to their health and safety • To ensure that contractors and workers comply with all site rules set out in the health and safety plan • To monitor the health and safety performance of the persons or companies working on the project www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk

  6. The Role of The Principal Contractor • To ensure that everyone working on the site has the opportunity to discuss their views on any health and safety matters that may affect them, and to co-ordinate all discussions and views – Consultation • To make sure that only authorised persons are allowed onto the site/premises where construction is taking place • To display the notification of the project to the HSE where people at work can see it www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk

  7. The Role of The Principal Contractor • To ensure that any information they have that is required for inclusion in the health and safety file is passed on to the Planning Supervisor • To ensure that any other designers or contractors they appoint, are competent www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk

  8. The Principal Contractor May Also: • Add rules into the health and safety plan that they think necessary for the management of health and safety on the project • Direct other contractors in order to enable the Principal Contractor to comply with their duties www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk

  9. Good Health and Safety Management • Even though the list is quite extensive, it is basic principles of good health and safety management on a construction site, and what most other large companies have practiced for many years. The use of these techniques leads to cost effective accident avoidance and prevention of ill health. www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk

  10. CDM - The Role of The Principal Contractor By John Johnston AIIRSM Health and Safety for Beginners www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk

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