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#1 Posted : 22 March 2007 09:48:00(UTC)
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Posted By Teresa Green
Are there any legal implications of a Client approving a method statement as opposed to accepting it?
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#2 Posted : 22 March 2007 10:48:00(UTC)
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Posted By Raymond Rapp
Teresa

Accepting, approving or reviewing method statements is largely a matter of semantics. After an incident, a well known company has allegedly gone from approving method statements to reviewing them. I am not sure that legally there is any difference because health and safety is usually a shared liability between all duty holders.

Ray
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#3 Posted : 22 March 2007 11:56:00(UTC)
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Posted By Jim-F
It is the responsibility of the principle contractor to review and approve a suitable and sufficient method statement, if this is not done and documented and things go badly wrong then the HSE will be looking for a paper trail
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