Health And Safety Issues

Health and safety for small builder

Make sure that the people working on your site are trained to work safely. Everything you need to know as a manufacturer busy.

Want to run a successful construction project

This is the essential health and safety best advice you should follow if you run a construction site, even if you do not directly use the people who work there:

• Keep your site clean and tidy, with a space for people to work;
• Keep people, including the public a safe distance - closing the site and the use of signs to warn people;
• Make sure that structures such as walls, are kept safe, and demolition work is well planned and workers know what to do;
• Use only 110 volt or battery powered portable tools and safely with electricity;
• Make sure that the trenches and excavations do not collapse and ensure that people can not fall into them;
• Make sure that workers can fall from a height;
• Working on ladders is permitted only as a last resort.

What can happen if the health and safety is ignored?

A young worker with no training or instruction has been left unattended to demolish a high wall known to be dangerous. The young worker was killed when the wall collapsed on him. The builder was convicted of manslaughter and sent to prison for three years.

The law requires smaller manufacturers to:

• Managing risk and risk - You must plan, manage and control your construction so that it is done safely and without risks to health;
• Inform and train your staff - Provide information and training on risks, precautions and rules;
• cooperate with the client or occupier Home - Client companies have legal obligations and is obligated to cooperate with you and have arrangements for managing the work. It is also wise to work closely with the occupier home to meet your responsibilities for site safety.

What you should know

Small manufacturers must be competent to carry out their work safely. You should not accept work for which you do not have the necessary health and safety skills. Most fatalities in the construction industry are occurring on construction projects involving small Rehabilitation of existing homes and workplaces. Over 60% of these deaths from falls from ladders, scaffolding, platforms working edges of the roof and falls through fragile roof or skylight. Other fatalities on projects from the collapse of excavations, lifting operations, electricity and mobile equipment.

Managing risks and hazards

As a small business, you are a contractor (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM) 2007 and you must:

• Plan, manage and control your construction so that risks to health and safety are monitored;
• Set of lead time - inform all subcontractors of the minimum amount of time to be allowed for planning and preparation;
• Preventing access to the site - check that measures have been taken to prevent access by unauthorized persons on the site, and
• Arrange social services - Ensure that adequate social services are in place for your workforce.

Inform and train your staff

You also need to provide your workforce information and training they need to ensure the health and safety. This includes:

• Induction - The cases not covered by another;
• the risks and precautions - information on the risks identified in assessments and precautions;
• site rules, and
• emergency procedures.

Cooperating with the customer or occupant

Close cooperation and coordination between all those involved in a project can help prevent injury and illness.

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