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    Annex A National safety legislation and guidance

    (informative)
    ' ’ COMMENTARY ON ANNEX A
    This annex describes the regulatory regimes and associated guidance available in
    July 2015. It is provided for information only. Readers cannot rely on this annex to
    provide a complete account of the current legal position or the relevant guidance
    and need to make sure that they have up-to-date information.

    A.1 Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974


    The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 [130] established formal rules
    for the management of safety and defined clearly the responsibilities of
    organizations, employers and employees. Within the umbrella of this Act there
    exists a framework of Regulations, Approved Codes of Practice, Codes of
    Practice, Guidance Notes and other published information that define the
    requirement for safety on sites where investigation and construction work is
    being carried out.
    All employers of five or more persons have a statutory duty to prepare
    and revise as necessary a written safety policy and communicate this to
    all employees. Under the Management of Health and Safety at Work
    Regulations 1999 [149], employers are required to implement a formal approach
    to safety. This is normally undertaken through a safety management system,
    which requires induction, risk assessments, method statements, consultation
    and audit.
    Certain risks are attached to working on investigation sites and these risks are
    associated with particular circumstances or hazards. The significant hazards are
    required to be assessed and provision made for safe working through developed
    Risk Assessments in the site-specific Construction Phase Plan. The Association
    of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists (AGS) have developed
    industry-specific safety guidance for activities which includes significant hazards
    such as trial pitting, underground and overhead services, work over and
    adjacent to water, work in confined spaces and work on contaminated land.

    A.2 Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999


    The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 [149] outline
    the essential content of a safety management system and the principles of risk
    assessment and prevention that are to be followed in all workplaces. It also
    outlines the requirements for health surveillance and where this is to be
    implemented.

    A.3 Construction (Design and Management)


    Regulations 2015 (CDM)
    All intrusive ground investigations, geotechnical advice and design and other
    associated activities fall within the scope of the Construction (Design and
    Management) Regulations 2015 [7], also referred to as CDM. The CDM
    Regulations cover notification of the project, impose duties on all clients,
    contractors and employees, create additional duty holders of Principal
    Contractor and Principal Designer, require that a site-specific Construction Phase
    Plan is prepared before construction (and investigation) work can proceed and
    that all work is carried out to the safety plan or its subsequent revisions.
    All designers are required to consider the hierarchy of risk reduction in their
    works and communicate with other designers and contractors on the project to
    reduce risk.
    The project is notifiable by the client if the construction phase lasts longer
    than 30 working days and has more than 20 workers working simultaneously at
    any point in the project or exceeds 500 person days.

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