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#1 Posted : 21 February 2007 12:48:00(UTC)
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Posted By Roger Bragg
I've been tasked with writing a health & safety policy document/guidance note covering situations where my company controls contractors/ subcontractors on our customers' premises. Please does anyone have any comments or suggested
frameworks/ templates? I'm wary that there may be many pitfalls.

//Roger
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#2 Posted : 22 February 2007 11:56:00(UTC)
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Posted By Ron Hunter
Roger,
I'm guessing that this post is linked to your earlier "chain of command" posting. I feel you are being placed in an unfair position here, and being asked to prepare something which most likely already exists for the Project and is simply not being communicated to all concerned. If you, your sub-contractors, or even your sub-sub-contractors are working in Client premises, then the Client will be the one to initially stipulate site rules as the affect overlap with his activities. If this is the NHS (as per your previous post) try contacting their health and safety manager.
Other than that, it will be difficult if not impossible to approach this from a 'generic' angle - rules and conditions will vary depending on the nature of the client's business and overlap activities. Seems to me that the tail is being requested to wag the dog here?!!
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#3 Posted : 22 February 2007 12:03:00(UTC)
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Posted By David G C
check your mail box
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#4 Posted : 22 February 2007 12:09:00(UTC)
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Posted By Ron Hunter
Roger, A brief Google found this!:

http://www.sct.nhs.uk/fi...contractors_handbook.pdf
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#5 Posted : 22 February 2007 14:46:00(UTC)
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Posted By Roger Bragg

Many thanks Ron and David

I admit I've been placed 'between a rock and a hard place'. I made some enquiries and so far the main contractor has asked for risk assessments and method statements/safe system of work - so that's a start. Apart from this no-one seems to want to take overall ownership.

It would be nice to have a codified standard for situations like this, everything depends on the rules and systems applied 'from above' and sometimes these can seem arbitrary.

Thanks for the documents and links.

//Roger.
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