Minimum standards and qualification required
Principal Designer: To be appointed designers by the Principle contractor in line with Careers Wales requirements.
Other Consultants / Designers: To be appointed by Principle Contractor
Proposed use of structure / building: Under the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulation 1992 a workplace is defined as any premises or part of premises which are made available to any person as a place of work, and includes:
i. any place within the premises to which such person has access while at work; and
ii. ii. any room, lobby, corridor, staircase, road or other place used as a means of access from that place of work or where facilities are provided for use in connection with the place of work other than a public road.
The site will be deemed a workplace under the aforementioned regulations and therefore must comply with the provisions of the regulations
Existing records and plans
A list of available information relevant to this project can be found within the contract documentation. It should be noted that any record drawings and information provided by the client, project manager or design team may not be entirely accurate or provide a complete record. The principal contractor should verify the accuracy prior to commencing work.
All principal contractors who have submitted an interest to tender for the project must arrange a site visit to survey and measure the site on a date and time agreed by Careers Wales. Please note due to the current Covid 19 situation and to keep human interaction to a minimum only two persons from each principle contractor are to a attended the pre-planned site visit.
Asbestos R&D survey to be undertaken by the Principle Contractor
3. Clients consideration & Management Requirements
Planning and managements including H&S goals: At all stages of planning and management of construction works should be undertaken giving due regard to health and safety, through liaison with and engagement of, the Project Manager and Principal Designer.
The Principal Contractor is to ensure the following:
• Contractors have sufficient numbers of experienced and competent site managers
• The proposed site manager(s) are inducted, trained and fully conversant with their HSE
management procedures
• They have the necessary resource to allocate to these projects
• They have sufficient mobilisation time to achieve the scheduled start on site
• The programme is realistic to complete the projects in line with the anticipated handover date.
Prior to practical completion and prior to handover; the Principal Contractor has maintained suitable and sufficient management and co-ordination procedures for health and safety. The construction site is the responsibility of the Principal Contractor until successful handover has been granted and any visitors need to be managed by the Principal Contractor, accordingly, including suitable site induction, areas of work etc
H&S Goals
The primary health and safety objective for this programme of works is to ensure that adequate actions and precautions are taken to prevent harm being caused to those carrying out construction work and others who may be affected.
Communication and liaison between Client and others:
All those in control of construction work are required to provide workers (including the self-employed) under their control, with any information that they require to carry out the work safely and without risk to health.
The Principal Contractor shall ensure that all workers are provided with a suitable, site specific induction to inform them of the arrangements for health, safety and welfare at their work site. This should include any relevant findings resulting from risk assessment, including risks arising from activities of other operatives working nearby. Site rules should be explained along with the procedures to be followed in the event of any worker finding themselves in a position of serious and imminent danger.
Arrangements for worker engagement on site should always be tailored to the size and nature of the project and risks involved. On smaller sites, informal arrangements for collecting workers' views can be effective, e.g. by arranging reviews of method statements immediately before the work itself is carried out. Contractors may need to make special arrangements for workers for whom English is a second language, or who are unable to read English.
The Principal Contractor has a specific duty to make and maintain arrangements to enable effective co-operation and consultation between themselves, contractors and workers. Arrangements made in respect of co-operation and consultation with workers on site should be recorded by the Principal Contractor and included in the construction phase plan. Such arrangements will require regular review and updating, as circumstances on site change.
Such arrangements need to cover all workers effectively, including those who may only be on site for brief periods. The arrangements should be proportionate to the size and complexity of the work, the scale of hazards and the size of the workforce. The Principal Contractor shall implement a range of mechanisms to ensure that on-site consultation is effective. This could include regular consultation meetings, consultation during inductions, daily briefings, toolbox talks etc.
Security of site:
The Principal Contractor shall have sole responsibility to ensure that the working area is secured and fenced off throughout the duration of the works.
Welfare provision: Welfare arrangements are to be in accordance with Regulation 13 (4) (c) and Regulation 15 (11) of the CDM2015 and are to be commensurate with the site undertaking.
Minimum requirements are as follows:
• Toilets
• Washing facilities
• Hot and cold running water
• Drying room
• Mess room
• Drinking Water,
It is proposed that the Principal Contractor will not be given the use of the existing welfare facilities and the principle contractor would have to provide is own welfare units.
Adequate first aid facilities are to be maintained on site and at least one appointed person is to be in attendance during site hours. Compliance shall be in accordance with “The Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981”.
As a minimum, a suitable first aid kit, eye wash and a burns kit should be provided.
H&S client employees, customers, others
Site hoarding requirement:
The Principal Contractor must take necessary steps to prevent access by unauthorised persons and a suitable barrier/fencing should be erected proportional to the risk imposed to the front and rear of the building.
Site hoarding, transport vehicle movement restrictions:
The Principal Contractor is to make adequate provision for control of site transport and is to ensure that there is a suitable and sufficient Traffic Plan is developed to ensure that residents using the surrounding areas are not endangered by vehicle movements (e.g. deliveries, removal of waste).
If possible, the deliveries should be programmed out of the rush hour.
Specific arrangements will be explored and agreed at the pre-start meeting. All deliveries will require a banksman to be present.
All Contractors staff will need to make arrangements for parking off-site.
Existing procedures, permit-to-work systems:
Where appropriate; a permit-to-work system is to be adopted for works on electrical services, hot works, works in confined spaces or any other high-risk activities identified. Daily 'hot work permits' will be required where welding, cutting, grinding and the use of naked flames is required. Plant, equipment or flammable materials must be covered with flame retardant materials (or removed) in areas where 'hot work permits' are in operation. In this case, continuous flammable atmosphere monitoring may be required, and a fire watch maintained both during and for a period after the hot works have ceased. The site manager would have to issue the permits.
Fire precautions, emergency procedures:
In the event of an incident (other than general first aid) the Principal Contractor must follow their company procedures, and ensure that the Client’s representative is advised of any incident as quickly and as early as possible so that the Medical Centre can take appropriate action.
The affected areas are to be secured and not disturbed until a thorough investigation has been carried out or approval has been given by the Client representative to continue accessing the area has been given.
The avenues of escape and assembly points are to be indicated on a drawing in the Construction Phase Plan (CPP) for the site and the Principal Contractor shall describe the method they intend to use to raise the alarm in the event of Fire or other emergencies when a site evacuation may be required. The Principal Contractor’s arrangements must include a ‘cause and effect’ analysis with adjacent premises and their operations.
Emergency contact details for key staff (e.g. Fire Wardens / First Aiders etc.) must be incorporated in the CPP’s emergency arrangements section. Emergency arrangements must also be displayed in all prominent working areas and form part of the induction / toolbox talk procedure.
The PC is to maintain a site register and visitors book at all times.
No Smoking will be permitted within the building and the external areas.
The Technical questions and outline schedule of refurbishment are attached, please make sure to complete these documents
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