13/08/2020
✅Safety tip for the month of August 2020✅
❓What is a health and safety plan❓
The Construction Regulations, 2014 define a health and safety plan:” health and safety plan” means a site, activity or project specific documented plan in accordance with the client’s health and safety specification;
Basically, it is a documented plan in line with the scope of work, the client’s health and safety specification and the risk profile, how the contractor will manage health and safety on a project.
❓What does the OHS Act and Regulations say❓
Construction Regulation 5: Duties of client
1 (l) discuss and negotiate with the principal contractor the contents of the principal contractor’s health and safety plan contemplated in regulation 7(1), and must thereafter finally approve that plan for implementation;✅
Construction Regulation 7: Duties of principal contractor and contractor
7. (1) A principal contractor must—
(a) provide and demonstrate to the client a suitable, sufficiently documented and coherent site specific health and safety plan, based on the client’s documented health and safety specifications contemplated in regulation 5(1)(b), which plan must be applied from the date of commencement of and for the duration of the construction work and which must be reviewed and updated by the principal contractor as work progresses;
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The health and safety plan are the only document mentioned in the OHS Act under CR 5 (1)(l) that must be approved – nowhere is there any mentioning that the client or contractor must approve a safety file.✅
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Sharon Lubbe
V3HSE
Health, Safety and Environmental
+27 82 829 1775
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