Principal Contractor Site Safety Plan
Because of the complex nature of building and civil construction safety, with multiple contractors on site and conducting many high-risk activities the assigned Principal Contractor’s focus on site specific safety is critical. A core part of the Principal Contractor (PC) legislative requirements is to develop and implement a site-specific safety plan to address the risks and processes on site.
We specialise in working with construction clients who are either new to the Principal Contractor (PC) role and need to develop their first site specific safety plan or clients who have some experience as a (PC) but want to tighten up their systems and processes into a more structured package.
One of the main difficulties in managing construction safety is the vast range of contractors that enter the site. Each contractor has a different level of understanding, structure, operational maturity and respect for safety, which creates a mixed bag of capabilities for the Principal Contractor and Site Manager to manage on-site.
The best way to manage the site and contractors from the outset is to ensure your site safety (PC) plan is suitable for the activities to be performed on site; ensuring it meets legislative requirements, is structured and written so it is easy to interpret and communicate, lays out the site risks and provides contractors and visitor of clear expectations of performance and behavior on site.
We can not only provide site specific (PC) safety plans for construction sites, but we also assess and advise on how you can better engage contractors from the start, to ensure the message is consistent both in requirements of working on site and the consequences of safety non-conformance.
We also provide a service to transform your paper-based forms, registers, checklists and workflows into a digital format created on an App platform accessible from mobile devices. Go to the website.
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Developer Compliance – Site Safety Inspections and Reports
The nature of the safety legislation these days is to involve all parties in the chain of activity in a construction project, including Designers, Planners, Principal Contractors, Sub-Contractors, Workers and even Developers.
It is important for developers to understand they have a duty of care to ensure the Principal Contractors not only have a safe structure in place but also perform safely throughout the duration of the project.
It is in the Developers best interest to ensure the performance of the Principal Contractor is maintained at the agreed level as to reduce the Developers exposure to non-compliance. The most effective way to reduce this exposure is to engage experienced safety advisors to review the site activity and safety documentation on a regular basis during the project. Ideally this should be included in any project budget as a mandatory cost for the Developer.
We offer a customised solution for Developers, providing a range of options to ensure you are managing your safety risk exposure on each project.