Posted By Ron Hunter
This should answer:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/lau/lacs/23-15.htm

Posted By Robert K Lewis
The HSE essentially enforce all construction work notifiable and non-notiofiable. The latter are generally "found" i n the course of their routine duties.

Bob

Posted By Bob Youel

Just a thought / one to think about

A private householder working on their own extension, on their own property with no builders involved was recently fined etc under construction law!

Who enforced I do not know - However somebody did as the case went to court

Its very interesting in that there the person was 'not at work'

Posted By CFT
Bob

Could this possibly have been a case where the actions of said house holder placed others unnecessarily at risk? And what I wonder was the actual charge and what had been cited for said enforcement and by whom?

CFT

Posted By AHS
I think only the HSE enforce CDM 2007 after having carefully read the Regulations/ACOP in particular Reg 2.

I could be wrong as the HSE website seems to insinuate otherwise.

Posted By ddraigice
It is NOT just HSE that deals with construction.

See http://www.hse.gov.uk/lau/lacs/23-15.htm and do a "ctrl f" to find construction.

But HSE will always deal with domestic construction.

For non-notifiable work in shops/offices etc (those that LA enforce) the LA will enforce the construction activity unless it is external work - in which case it's HSE irrespective of whether it's an LA enforced premises.

Posted By Robert K Lewis
ddraigice

The link you give is to the old site which has not yet been updated by the HSE. The clue is in the CDM94 reference.

This is a problem with the HSE web and I have asked the question several times - Ther chance of an urgent update is pretty small.

Bob

Posted By ddraigice
AHS,

The ACOP may mention the fact that LA's do not enforce notifiable projects under CDM 07 but not construction per se. Where is the exact quote?

Posted By Colin Stapleton
Thanks for responding to my question - to elaborate on why I asked it, I am about to do a dissertation on the topic and thought I would test the water a bit and check that I wasn't overlooking an obvious point.

My reason for looking at this is since CDM 2007 incorporates ALL construction work, why confuse the matter by having two regulating autorities enforce it but more importantly is it possible that the people most likely be involved in incidents are micro businesses to SME's, most of those have little or no professinal H&S backup and one look at these revised regs confirms their thoughts that it is a waste of time.

As for the HSE enforcing - if it ain't notified, they're not too concerned and the industry knows it!

Thanks

Posted By RobAnybody
It should be the HSE that takes an enforcing role in this area but as I have found to my cost they are not interested.

The house at the end of my street has had major building works for over 4 months now in which time a large concrete pump & a large crane have been brought in. In both cases the vehicles had to be parked on a public highway & there was no attempt to keep the public away from the very large & heavy moving parts (counter balances, stabilisers etc. They even managed to pour a huge amount of concrete down the drain but no-one seems bothered.

The builders regularly climb the scaffold without safety gear on & the sight is a real dump. I don't think they know what ear defenders are either.

The principle contractors don't give a brass monkeys & we've even had a builder threaten my 70+ year old neighbour with a punch up the conker. It's so very genteel really.

I phoned the HSE twice, but they were not interested.

Mind you neither are Leeds City Council or our local county councilor so in answer to your question, if is notifiable then the HSE should be the enforcing authority but they don't & no-one else takes anything more than a passing interest.

Sorry, grumpy.

Rob