ABSTRACT
Up to this point we have been ‘constructing the team’ and will shortly be joined on site by the BS contractor for the remainder of the contract journey. For the journey to be successful all the way it is essential that the services contractor is properly prepared. The request by the site manager to the services contractor for the preparation of quality, safety and environmental project plans presents an opportunity to make sure that the earlier promises secured at pre-award/management strategy meetings now start to be delivered. It is a very unwise site manager who lightly passes up the opportunity of creating a personal confidence level in the services contractor before that firm has commenced work. Any queries concerning anticipated levels of performance can be dealt with now to avoid facing a retrieval situation soon after site work commences. A shortfall in initial performance by the services contractor is just as much the site manager’s responsibility for not expressing doubts when commenting on quality, safety and environmental plans. For clarity the three plans are dealt with separately, although in practice they are more closely entwined.
