Head Contractors
The general or head contractor on site should do the following:
- Develop and carry out a site-specific health and safety plan.
This head contractor may want to check out that worker behind him.
- Ensure any contractor engaged to carry out construction work is competent and has made suitable provisions for health and safety.
- Obtain and check site-specific safety plans from subcontractors.
- Ensure there is coordination and cooperation of subcontractors regarding the following:
- information and on-site activity (such as site meetings, site procedures)
- appropriate communication arrangements between contractors on site for health and safety
- arrangements for discussing health and safety matters with people on site (such as setting regular toolbox/tailgate meeting times)
- incident and accident reporting
- Ensure training for health and safety is carried out.
- Make arrangements to monitor health and safety performance (such as reports, audits and inspections).
- Make arrangements to pass on information from the client or designer/adviser to other contractors and employees (such as activity reports).
- Make arrangements to control visitor access, including such things as delivery of materials.
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2-9. Who should be responsible to see that all workers on the construction site are properly trained in their tasks?
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