Posted By Chris Pope a few years ago I sat accross the table at HSE offices with the principal inspector who told my client not to come back into the country to manage construction work until he had got the CITB 5 day SMSTS course or his own country's version. The driver was a near fatality. HSE don't much care where offenders come from they just have difficulty applying the judgment - see the Port of Ramsgate case where 6 pedestrians died as a result of a design and build failure.

Posted By Rob T If the company (and you mentioned France for instance) are established EU, then they should fall under almost the same legislation as we do for CDM (sorry can't remember the EC Directive on CDM but it does exist) and therefore they should know most of the stuff anyway. But in answer to your specific question - they MUST comply with our legislation. I often work abroad in H&S and I always find out the relevant local H&S laws before proceeding. Your customer/client should have done the same for the UK. The HSE have a specific help line for foreigners intending to do business in the UK. I hope this helps. Cheers Rob