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The Pre-Tender Stage

Health and Safety PlanBy

John Johnston AIIRSM

Health and Safety for Beginners



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What is the Pre-Tender Stage Health

and Safety Plan?

Essentially the plan is a collection ofinformation about the significant health andsafety risks of the construction project which the

Principal Contractor will have to manage duringthe construction phase.

The degree of detail and the time and effortinvolved in preparing it should be in proportionto the nature, size and level of risks involved inthe project.


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Who Supplies the Information?

The Client: will provide information relevant to

health and safety to the Planning Supervisor. E.g.

existing drawings, surveys of the site or premises,

information on the location of services, etc. Designers: will provide information about risks which

cannot be avoided at the design stage and will have to

be controlled by the Principal Contractor and other

contractors. Typically provided on drawings, written

specifications or in outline method statements.


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What is the Purpose of the Pre-

Tender Health and Safety Plan?

During its development, the plan can provide a focus atwhich the health and safety considerations of design arebrought together under the control of the PlanningSupervisor.

The plan plays a vital role in the tender documentation.Prospective Principal Contractors are made fully awareof the projects health, safety and welfare requirements,giving a level playing field on which to provide tendersubmissions.

The plan provides a template against which differenttender submissions can be measured.


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Who Prepares the Plan?

The Planning Supervisor is responsible for

ensuring that the pre-tender stage health and

safety plan is prepared.

The Planning Supervisor is not necessarily

responsible for producing the plan directly, but

he must ensure that it is prepared.


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What Should the Contents of the

Pre-Tender Stage Health and Safety

Plan Be? Nature of the project (location, nature of

construction work, etc)

The existing environment i.e. services,surrounding land use, ground conditions, etc.

Existing drawings (available drawings and healthand safety file if there is one)

The design (information on the significant riskwhich cannot be avoided)

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What Should the Contents of the Pre-

Tender Stage Health and Safety Plan

Be? Construction materials (health hazards which cannot be avoided) Site-wide elements (positioning of site access or egress points,

location of unloading, layout and storage areas, traffic routes,etc)

Overlap with the clients undertaking i.e. where work takes placeat the clients premises.

Site rules i.e. emergency procedures, permit-to-work rules, etc setby the client when work takes place at the clients premises.

Continuing liaison (procedures for dealing with design workprepared for construction phase)


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Other Considerations for the Pre-

Tender Health and Safety Plan

A general description of the construction work that isin the project

Details of any time scales, including the time scales forany intermediate stages of the project

Details of any foreseeable risks to the health and safetyof anyone carrying out construction work on theproject

Any other information needed by a contractor to show

either that they are competent, or that they haveallocated enough resources to health and safety for theproject


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Other Considerations for the Pre-

Tender Health and Safety Plan

Such information that the planning supervisor

has, or can easily obtain, that a contractor would

need in order to meet any of the requirements

imposed on them by the Regulations

Information that any contractor will need to

know about any welfare provisions that will be

required.


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What Next?

Once the Principal Contractor has been

appointed, the Planning Supervisor hands the

health and safety plan over to them.

It is then their responsibility to develop it into a

working document that will assist in the health

and safety management of the project.


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The Pre-Tender Stage

Health and Safety PlanBy

John Johnston AIIRSM

Health and Safety for Beginnerswww.healthandsafetytips.co.uk

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