© Safetymark
Consultancy Services 2007
Pre construction
Information
•Clients must provide designers and contractors who may
be bidding for the work (or who they
intend to engage), with the project-specific health and safety information
needed to identify hazards and
risks associated with the design and construction work. (The pre-construction information)
•Clients who already have a health and safety file from
earlier work, or who have previously
carried out surveys or assessments, including assessments and plans under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006, may already
have all, or much of the information
needed. However, where there are gaps in this information, the client should ensure that these are filled by commissioning surveys or
by making other reasonable enquiries
•It is not acceptable for clients to make general
reference to hazards which might exist - for example that ‘…. there may be asbestos present in the
building’. Clients should carry out the
necessary surveys in advance and provide the necessary information to those
who need it.
•The pre-construction information provided should be
sufficient to ensure that significant risks during the work can be anticipated and planned
for. It should concentrate on those issues
that designers and contractors could not reasonably be expected to anticipate
or identify, and not on
obvious hazards such as the likelihood that the project would involve work at height.