Posted By Thomas Woods Elliot Your website advertises your company's risk management division. Iwould advise you to get in touch with them, as they should be able to help with the documents required. Tom

Posted By Robert S Woods If it's an area I'm unfamiliar with I always say so (not that I'm suggesting this is the case in this thread). I have found that the great folk who inhabit this forum are always willing to help if you do. Bob

Posted By Jasonjg {Quote}If it's an area I'm unfamiliar with I always say so (not that I'm suggesting this is the case in this thread). I have found that the great folk who inhabit this forum are always willing to help if you do. Bob{Quote} Exactly, and there is nothing wrong with people or consultants asking for assistance and even the occasional document etc. Thats what is good about this forum. I think my above posting may be a little harsh but it was the way I read it. Sorry Eliot maybe a misunderstanding

Posted By hse.leon Hi Mr. Eliot ! please give a try on these documents http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg163.pdf http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg218.pdf and explain your contractor .

Posted By Chris Pope Like a lot of the consultants who use this site, I don't quite know everything...yet. I've been involved in construction for more than 30 years, but I have never actually erected concrete formwork panels, so when I needed to write a more detailed method statement I did what I always do - ask the people who do it - the customer. They are nearly always the only experts you will readily get assistance from, and what's more they pay you to listen to them! The service you provide is to decifer the jargon, apply the general principles of safety as you understand them, cope with the law for them and interogate the bluffing and risk taking. When you get down to detail you will find that there are inherent problems to the work of groundworkers, (like how to tie a ladder to nothing) - problems that maybe other consultants have given up on, and that is where you shine - by researching, thinkiing and enquiring (including using this site) to get answers to problems that don't have an off the shelf answer. It took a fair bit of determinatino to put together the detailed method statement I wrote for the formwork contractor, but I thoroughly enjoyed it the contractor had to do some logical safety thinking. I learned all the jargon, and discovered that they already had most of their bases covered. The next step is to catch them out on site when their men don't actually follow the method statement - that is when you are really tackling the safety culture.