Managing Health and Safety in Construction: Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015. Guidance on Regulations (L153): L153 / L 153 (Legislation series, L153 / L 153)

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L114: Safe use of woodworking machinery. Provision and Use of Work Equipment regulations 1998 as applied to woodworking machinery liaise with the client and principal designer for the duration of the project to ensure that all risks are effectively managed L84: A guide to the well aspects of the Offshore Installations and Wells (Design and Construction etc) Regulations 1996. Guidance on Regulations Client - Anyone who has construction work carried out for them. The main duty for clients is to make sure their project is suitably managed, ensuring the health and safety of all who might be affected by the work, including members of the public. CDM 2015 recognises two types of client: ensure suitable welfare facilities are provided from the start and maintained throughout the construction phase

Principal contractors: roles and responsibilities Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015have ongoing arrangements in place for managing health and safety throughout the construction phase Worker - An individual who actually carries out the work involved in building, altering, maintaining or demolishing buildings or structures. Workers include: plumbers, electricians, scaffolders, painters, decorators, steel erectors and labourers, as well as supervisors like foremen and chargehands. Their duties include cooperating with their employer and other dutyholders, reporting anything they see that might endanger the health and safety of themselves or others. Workers must be consulted on matters affecting their health, safety and welfare. prepare a written construction phase plan before the construction phase begins, implement, and then regularly review and revise it to make sure it remains fit for purpose

Principal contractors have an important role in managing health and safety risks during the construction phase so they must have the skills, knowledge, experience and, where relevant, organisational capability to carry out this work. commercial clients have construction work carried out as part of their business. This could be an individual, partnership or company and includes property developers and companies managing domestic properties L23: Manual handling. Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 - Guidance on Regulations (fourth edition)

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The latest articles and guides from NBS subject specialists and construction industry contributors. L153: Managing health and safety in construction - Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015. Guidance on Regulations Designer - An organisation or individual whose work involves preparing or modifying designs, drawings, specifications, bills of quantity or design calculations. Designers can be architects, consulting engineers and quantity surveyors, or anyone who specifies and alters designs as part of their work. They can also include tradespeople if they carry out design work. The designer's main duty is to eliminate, reduce or control foreseeable risks that may arise during construction work, or in the use and maintenance of the building once built. Designers work under the control of a principal designer on projects with more than one contractor.

A comprehensive online collection of construction related standards, regulations, technical advice and articles L8: Legionnaires' disease. The control of legionella bacteria in water systems. Approved Code of Practice and guidance L77: Guidance from the licensing authority on the Adventure Activities Licensing Regulations 2004. The Activity Centres (Young Persons' Safety) Act 1995

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L26: Work with display screen equipment: Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 as amended by the Health and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2002 L112: Safe use of power presses. Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 as applied to power presses domestic clients have construction work carried out for them but not in connection with any business – usually work done on their own home or the home of a family member. CDM 2015 does not require domestic clients to carry out client duties as these normally pass to other dutyholders A principal contractor is appointed by the client to control the construction phase of any project involving more than one contractor. When working for a domestic client, the principal contractor will normally take on the client duties as well as their own as principal contractor. If a domestic client does not appoint a principal contractor, the role of the principal contractor must be carried out by the contractor in control of the construction phase. Alternatively, the domestic client can ask the principal designer to take on the client duties (although this must be confirmed in a written agreement) and the principal contractor must work to them as 'client' under CDM 2015.

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