Construction Health & Safety

Project Supervisor Design Process-Project Supervisor Construction Stage

The Construction industry covers a wide range of activities, hazards, materials techniques, employment patterns, and contractual arrangements. In such circumstances, if safety and health standards are to improve, good management of construction projects is essential from concept through to design, construction, use, and eventual demolition. Poor management of the design or construction process is a prime cause of most of the deaths, injuries and illness in the construction industry.

The Safety Health and Welfare at Work (Construction) Regulations, 2006 apply to you if you are a client having construction work done, a designer preparing plans and specifications or you are a contractor or employer whose employees carry out or manage construction work.

Project Supervisor Design Process
Ashview Consultants can carry out the role of competent PSDP for our client on a project. As the PSDP our key role is to ensure co-ordination of the work of designers throughout the project.
As a PSDP will:

• Identify hazards arising from the design or from the technical, organisational, planning or time related aspects of the project
• Where possible, eliminate the hazards or reduce the risk
• Communicate necessary control measure, design assumptions or
• remaining risks to the PSCS so they can be dealt with in the Safety
• and Health Plan
• Ensure that the work of designers is coordinated to ensure safety
• Organise co-operation between designers
• Prepare a written safety and health plan for any project where construction will take more than 500 person days or 30 working days
• or there is a Particular Risk and deliver it to the client prior to tender.
• Prepare a safety file for the completed structure and give it to the client
• Notify the Authority and client of non-compliance with any written directions issued

• Co-ordinate the identification of hazards, the elimination of the hazards or the reduction of risks during construction
• Develop the Safety and Health Plan initially prepared by the PSDP before construction commences
• Co-ordinate the implementation of the construction regulations by contractors
• Organise cooperation between contractors and the provision of information
• Co-ordinate the reporting of accidents to the Authority
• Notify the Authority before construction commences where Construction is likely to take more than 500 person days or 30 working days
• Provide information to the site safety representative
• Co-ordinate the checking of safe working procedures
• Coordinate measures to restrict entry on to the site

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Contractors

Ashview Consultants also work with contractors on site in providing them with the necessary Health & Safety service that allows our clients to comply with the Safety, Health & Welfare (Construction) Regulations 2006. These are as follows:

• Co-operate with the PSCS
• Provide a copy of your safety statement and relevant information
• to the PSCS
• Promptly provide the PSCS with information required for the safety
• file
• Comply with directions of Project Supervisors
• Report accidents to the Authority and to the PSCS where an
• employee can not perform their normal work for more than 3 days
• Comply with site rules and the safety and health plan and ensure
• that your employees comply
• Identify hazards, eliminate the hazards or reduce risks during
• construction
• Facilitate the Site Safety Representative
• Ensure that relevant workers have a safety awareness card and a
• construction skills card where required
• Provide workers with site specific induction
• Appoint a safety officer where there are more than 20 on site or 30
• employed
• Consult workers and Safety Representatives
• Monitor compliance and take corrective action
• The construction regulations impose a substantial number of other
• contractor duties, including a number of new duties:
• Safety at road works
• Explosives
• Transitional arrangements of between six and eighteen months apply
• to the following new duties
• New construction skills card requirements for road workers, mobile
• erection of mobile tower scaffold, mini-digger operation , self
• erecting tower crane operation and shot firing
• Reversing aids and rear visibility for construction plant.