Engineering - CDM Client Pre-construction Checklist

• Reference

• Conducted on

  Date

• Conducted by

• Position/ Job Role

• Site Location
  Address

• Site Name

• Project Name

• Principle Designer (PD)

• Principle Contractor (PC)

General Arrangements

• Have Alpheus made formal appointments by letter to the PD & PC

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Why not

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Attach letters

  Media

• Notifiable definition - last longer than 30 working days and have more than 20 workers working at the same time at any one point or will exceed 500 person days

• Is the project notifiable

  Yes

  No

• Has an online F10 notification form been submitted to HSE to notify them of commencement of work

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Explain why this has not been submitted

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have you checked that the principal designer (PD) has the capability and necessary skills, knowledge, training and experience to fulfil their duties under CDM

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have you checked that the principal contractor (PC) has the capability and necessary skills, knowledge, training and experience to fulfil their duties under CDM

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Project Description

• Is there a “client brief” including a description of the project, reasons for the work and design vision

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are drawings available

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Do the PC/ PD have Client details including key contacts

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Has a schedule of the key activities for the project been produced

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Do the PC/ PD know the expected start and finish dates and any other milestone dates

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Do the PC/ PD know programme details

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have Alpheus allowed time for work planning after the appointment of key contractors

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have Alpheus allowed adequate resources and time to each stage of the project

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Has Alpheus provided details of existing records and plans to the PD/ PC

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Client’s Considerations and Management Requirements

• Has a construction phase plan (CPP) been adequately developed and reviewed by Alpheus

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Explain why

• Have arrangements been made for communication and liaison between the parties involved, e.g. regular meetings

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are security provisions and requirements, e.g. access control, clear to the PD/ PC

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are you satisfied that suitable welfare & first aid facilities have been made available for use by contractors on site

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are any facilities and equipment which are to be made available, such as anchor points and lifting equipment suitable

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are the Supervision levels to be provided on site by the PD/ PC adequate

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have Alpheus provided any rules regarding parking, traffic routes, vehicle movement restrictions to the PD/ PC

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have permit-to-work arrangements been agreed with the PD/ PD

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have site fire safety requirements and emergency procedures been agreed with the PD/ PC

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have any restrictions concerning access, storage, waste and deliveries been discussed with the PD/ PC

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have any smoking restrictions on site been discussed with the PD/ PC

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have any height or weight restrictions on site been discussed with the PD/ PC

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Hazards

• Have details of existing “confined spaces” on the site been discussed with the PD/ PC

• Have details about the location of asbestos-containing materials on site been discussed with the PD/ PC

• Have any other hazardous materials on site been discussed with the PD/ PC

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have any adjacent land uses, where applicable, been discussed with the PD/ PC

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have any hazardous or dangerous materials stored on site been discussed with the PD/ PC

• Have location of existing services including overhead lines and buried services been discussed with the PD/ PC

• Has information about ground conditions where this is relevant to the job (e.g. excavation) or the safe use of plant been discussed with the PD/ PC

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have details about existing structures to the extent that it is relevant to the work? (including relevant information from any existing health and safety file) been discussed with the PD/ PC

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Has information about past incidents and ground movements which may have affected the stability of structures been discussed with the PD/ PC

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have details of any contaminated land been discussed with the PD/ PC

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have any other health or safety hazards arising from the client’s (our) activities been discussed with the PD/ PC

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Design Issues

• Have any significant design assumptions been discussed with the PD/ PC

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have suggested work methods, sequences or control measures put forward by those acting as designers been discussed with the PC

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have arrangements for co-ordination of ongoing design work and handling design changes been discussed with the PD/ PC

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Has significant residual risks identified at the design stage but which could not be eliminated been discussed with the PC

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have materials requiring particular precautions in their use been discussed with the PD/ PC

  Yes

  No

  N/A

The Health and Safety File - projects involving more than one contractor only

• Has the format for the health and safety file and its content been agreed with the PD/ PC

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Comments

• Any further comments

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