Health and safety requirements—preparing to begin works and setting up the site

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Practice notes

Health and safety requirements—preparing to begin works and setting up the site

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Practice notes
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Those who control site work must check that working conditions are healthy and safe both before, and as, work begins. This Practice Note concentrates on the duties of the main contractor (‘Principal Contractor’ for the purposes of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015), SI 2015/51), as it is most commonly the main contractor who has overall control of the site, specifically at the site set up stage. The following is a list of the key considerations for the main contractor.

Duty to notify and report

Under CDM 2015, a construction project is 'notifiable' if the work on site is scheduled to last longer than 30 working days and have more than 20 workers working simultaneously at any point in time during the project (up to completion of construction work) or exceed 500 person days. A formal notification of such 'notifiable' projects must be made to the Health and Safety Executive ('HSE') using form F10. The HSE website now allows notification using this form to be made electronically. For

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Requirements definition
What does Requirements mean?

A DCO should include “Requirements” to which the development authorised by the DCO is to be subject. Similar to planning conditions, a requirement specifies the matters for which detailed approval needs to be obtained before the development can be lawfully begin.

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