Posted By maddog RM
Jed,
are you doing this as an employee, a safety consultant or simply as a favour?

Posted By Ciaran McAleenan
Jed,

There is a copyleft safety manual and arrangements on my website,
http://www.web-safety.com/manual/

Regards.

Ciaran
My428

Posted By CFT
Jed

By your own admission you have the construction cert under your belt and I would assume plenty of experience? Whilst there are many of us involved in multi million pound construction projects and would be able to help you with specific areas, I saw the question asking for help in setting up an entire H&S management system suitable for construction.

For me, it was simply too big a question to respond to here on the forum in any depth. Start at the beginning Jed and work your way through; look at legislative absolutes first to make certain you comply followed by all the rest, create a paper or electronic based construction H&S management system, implement training where necessary, certification checks, inspections etc, the company philosophy and methodology for the tasks it undertakes, portacabins on site, fire, the actual sites, assessment of subbies, testing under LOLER for example, PUWER, PAT, COSHH, PPE, welfare, your past records, what is RIDDOR like, accidents D.O’s etc etc, are you a house builder, a PC to whatever comes along, who are your consultants? This is not definitive Jed, just some examples; work your way through and if you have any area that is causing you a specific problem then by all means shoot the breeze some more.

Good luck

CFT

Posted By mrs.seed
The best place to start is to pick a topic and talk to people on your company who are involved in that topic and simply write down what they do (at the same time check what they do is the legal minimum).
You will then have a base management system which you can look at improving.

Your problem may come when you have different people handling things in a different way, but get them to talk to each other, decide on the best bits of each and get agreement on one method - with your input obviously

When considering what aspects of safety need your attention (e.g. accident reporting/training) you may find it useful to look at the CDM ACOP for what should be looked at to assess a contractor - this is what any clients should be looking at.

Final suggestion - dont make it complicated.