CDM Principle Designer
The appointment of a Principal Designer is required where there is more than one contractor undertaking construction work [CDM 2015 Regulations (5)].
The Principal Designer’s role involves Coordinating the design work of others in the project team to ensure that significant and foreseeable risks are managed throughout the design process.
The Principal Designer must plan, manage and monitor the pre-construction phase and coordinate matters relating to health and safety to ensure that, so far as is reasonably practicable, the project is carried out without risks to health and safety.
ETH Safety will facilitate good communication and cooperation between project team members and co-ordinate the preparation of the health and safety file.
For clients, the early appointment of the Principal Designer is crucial for effective planning and establishing management arrangements from the start.
Client CDM Advisor
ETH Safety offers clients the high levels of service required to administer the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015. Our role, when appointed as CDM consultant, is to provide the client with a key project advisor in respect of construction health and safety risk management matters as per the CDM 2015 Regulations.
We assist and advise the client on the appointment of competent designers and contractors and the adequacy of management arrangements, ensuring proper co-ordination of the health and safety aspects of the design process and facilitating good communication and cooperation between project team members and reviewing the health and safety file at the end of the construction phase.
Health and Safety Consultancy
Annual Contract Support
This gives you unlimited 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year access to telephone and e-mail advice. Essentially ETH Safety becomes your ‘Competent Person’ under the Regulation 7 (HEALTH AND SAFETY Assistance) of the Management of HEALTH AND SAFETY at Work Regulations 1999.
ETH Safety will also provide you with accurate and relevant bulletins, including legislation changes. Any general changes to documents, for example, the addition of a new paragraph to your Health and Safety policy will also be included in the annual support fee.
Health And Safety Inspection
Health and safety inspections are a necessary part of any organisation. Performing thorough checks on a regular basis allows you to identify and control potential hazards and ensure employees and other individuals are not put at risk. On construction site, it helps to improve (health and safety) performance by looking at the operations, systems, equipment and people to ensure that there are no faults or failings and to be able to correct them before they lead to accidents/incidents/near misses.
ETH Safety carry out full health and safety inspections of the physical aspects of your premises or sites, as well as your on-site documentation and upon completion full reports are produced that detail the observations made, issues identified (both safe and unsafe act), what needs to be corrected immediately as well as recommendations necessary to ensure ongoing legal compliance.Inspection reports can be submitted electronically or can be handwritten and issued on site. Our inspection service can also be covered as part of our annual support contracts.
SSiP Accreditations
CHAS
The CHAS health and safety assessment scheme is a pre-approval scheme to allow contractors to show potential clients that they meet the required health and safety standards.
Constructionline
ETH Safety can provide you with the expert knowledge and documentation to complete your acclaim application.
We will review your current documents and attend sites to make sure the records are relevant to the organisation’s and will ensure you achieve your accreditation by doing the work for you.
Health And Safety File/O&M Manual Preparation
ETH Safety can take the pressure of you prior to practical completion of a project and provide a coherent document structure which contains all essential information elements, minimising repetitive and duplicate information to a recognise industry/HSE standard.