Head Contractors
The general or head contractor on site should do the following:
- develop and carry out a site-specific health and safety plan
- make sure 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
- make sure the co-ordination and co-operation of subcontractors regarding:
- 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
- make sure 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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2-10. Who is primarily responsible to make sure any contractor engaged to carry out construction work is competent?
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