ABSTRACT
Health and safety legislation applies to all businesses environments. The Health and Safety Executive guide referred to can be of benefit to the professional practitioner in identifying the most common risks that contractors have to manage on site and what might be done to ‘design out’ or reduce these risks when designing, specifying and planning projects. The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 applies to all work activities. The Regulations require employers to plan, control, organise, monitor and assess the risks associated with their operations in order to identify measures that will ‘design out’ health and safety risks. The method statement should describe in a logical sequence exactly how a job or task can be carried out without risks to health and safety and should describe all necessary control measures. The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 require employers to control exposure to hazardous substances in order to prevent ill health.
