Easy Guide To Making A Construction Health And Safety Plan

Easy Guide To Making A Construction Health And Safety Plan

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You probably want to know what exactly is a construction health and safety plan. In short, it refers to a plan which outlines the measures to be put into place to prevent accidents and injuries from happening during construction work.

In a construction health and safety plan, hazards are identified, assessed, controlled, and possibly eliminated in a process that is referred to as risk assessment management. This plan is integral for principal contractors to manage their workplace health and safety obligations, which is why they are required to prepare such plans before they even begin on construction.

So how does a principal contractor go about in preparing this Construction Health and Safety Plan? Below are listed the steps on how this highly significant plan is prepared.

1. First, one must know what exactly the Construction Health and Safety Plan needs to have stated in it. Here are the important details:

- Construction site address
- The full name and address of the contractor in charge
- Business number of the principal contractor
- Planned start date
- Estimated duration of construction work
- The type of construction that is going to be done
- Construction site rules and regulations
- The risks the principal contractor is expected to manage
- Proposed measures to control the risks stated
- How the measures of control will be implemented
- Methods that will review the measures of control
- Strategies for public safety
- Emergency procedures

2. Once all these details are kept in mind, the principal contractor should go around the construction site to look out for what may be potential hazards present when certain construction tasks are being undertaken. This is simply called identifying hazards and is the first step in risk assessment management.

3. Next, assess the risks that you have identified. Decide the level of danger a potential hazard poses by gauging how seriously someone could be affected by this and the likelihood of this happening. After rating each potential hazard, you would know which hazards should be priority in preparing measures of control for.

4. Basing on the priority listing for potential hazards you have prepared, you must enact measures of control that eliminate or at the very least, minimize the risks. You may control the hazards by eliminating the hazard, substituting the hazard with a lesser one, engineering out the hazard, use administrative controls, or use personal protective equipment. These are also listed according to highest preference to the least preferred, with eliminating the hazard as the most preferred measure of hazard control.

5. Always look out for hazards. Constantly try to identify new potential hazards and set new control measures for these newly identified hazards. You should expect to discover new hazards as construction work proceeds.

6. Review your construction health and safety plan and check that all the required details listed in number 1 are found in it. Make sure that the plan is written in a way that makes it easily understandable.

Know that the principal contractor cannot start work with construction unless the construction health and safety plan has been discussed or a copy has been given to all the relevant people participating in the construction job. Also, it is the principal contractors duty to update or inform all relevant personnel every time an amendment has been made on the construction health and safety plan.

About the Author:
Ensafe Planning Solutions offers a construction safety plan for small and medium sized contractors who do not have the time, money or knowledge to write up their own. It complies with current UK HSE legislation and can be quickly and easily adapted to any construction work site in the United Kingdom. You can also download free guidelines to write your own safety plan from the website.



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