Posted By TONY Hi All Does anyone have a good template i could use for our sites. Thanks in advance

Posted By Crim Is this something that the health and safety manager should be involved in? i.e. when attending site looking at other safety issues should we be asking to see the waste management plan? If the answer is yes I will be interested in looking at a copy as well please. Who is responsible for writing this plan?

Posted By Crim Hi Mitch, I just looked and find the following: If you are the principal contractor, you are responsible for: * obtaining relevant information from sub-contractors * updating the SWMP at least every three months as the project progresses * keeping the SWMP on site during the project * ensuring that other contractors know where the SWMP is kept * allowing other contractors and the client access to the SWMP during the project * handing the completed SWMP back to the client at the end of the project * keeping a copy of the SWMP for two years. The Principal Contractor is appointed according to CDM 2007 which is a health and safety regulation therefore is the SWMP now a health and safety duty?

Posted By Robert K Lewis Crim You missed out the review of the plan within 3 months of completion post project end by the PC. Also ensure it is on site at the start of the project or an offence is committed jointly with the client. So if the client does not provide one do not blithely start work on the basis that it his fault for not preparing the start of the plan. Both are jointly guilty of the offence. There are templates on the Wrap, Defra and Envirowise sites but I think they are set out in a way that requires a reasonable knowledge of waste management systems to be properly used. ISO 14001 firms should manage but I suspect designers and smaller contractors will struggle. In view of the emphasis on the PC I think we will see an end to PCs who pass all waste responsibility over to the subcontractors. Major Contractors will soon wake up to this and the Construction/Project Management contractors may well find it hard to avoid their responsibilities as some have done under CDM. Bob