Posted By dave marshall having read many previous posts in respect of the H+S Advisors role in construction and competence, leaves me with mixed feelings and my present understanding of CDM2007 Does anyone know what the role and function of a site be it visiting or resident H+S manager actually is? it seems to be difficult to be advisory in nature if a safety individual has limited understanding of building procedure. the problem i find is that it is difficult to find an individual with both safety (nebosh etc) and HND heavy civils experience to fullfill the role. As i understand the site manager has overall responsibility of undertaking during the various contruction stages needless to say with assistance from the H+S person advice etc. Many thanks

Posted By CFT Dave Are you thinking just a bit to far outside the box? I look after our construction company as well as many other duties and often meet the structural engineers, because I don't or perhaps more to the point can't to their job makes me no lesser competent to look after the H&S side of the works; no I can't do calculus, I can't QS it (although I am not bad at it, [experience comes in handy])but I do fully understand the building block process (absolutely no pun there)to get a project from the initial proposals, including for example, planning, in house or LA building regulations approval, F10 submission, soil tests, selection of the team, site, welfare, lifting, putting it all together, vehicles, heavy plant, meetings, PM, CDM-C,scaffolding, designers,PM, client needs (and fears) signs and signals, traing, TBT's,WAH, radon testing, excavation,services and utilities, waste transfer, and so on and so forth until one reaches the dreaded snagging and ultimate practical completion with any reinstatement as required, dismantle, pack up, move on, get paid and start all over again; not meant to be definitive, in any particular order, or of an exhausitve content. As long as you have some competancy in all the areas and lots of it on the safety & health side I don't see what the difficulty is. And no before you say it, there are thosands that do do this as a matter of course from our fair shores to the most distant corners of the globe. CFT (still stuck in the office promising myself I was going to have a half day)