Construction

Publications

The absolutely essential healty and safety toolkit for the smaller contractor (2.45MB) pub 02/09

This toolkit provides a ready checklist for health and safety problems on small construction sites. It will help you to manage or avoid them and to ensure your own health and safety as well as the health and safety of the people who work for you, your clients, and others such as the public. The toolkit also acts as a signpost to more detailed advice.

Health and safety in construction (3.61MB) pub 03/10

This book explains the essential tasks for achieving healthy and safe construction sites. It will help you identify hazards and control risks. It explains how to plan, organise, control, monitor and review health and safety throughout the length of a project.

Managing health and safety in construction - CDM Regulations 2007 (Approved Code of Practice) (988KB) pub 03/10

This book is an HSE Approved Code of Practice (ACOP) which provides practical guidance on complying with the duties set out in the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007. It also contains the text of the Regulations themselves.

Health and safety in roof work (4.03MB) pub 01/10

This book contains guidance on how to plan and work safely on roofs. It covers new buildings, repair, maintenance, cleaning work and demolition. It also includes some guidance for those not directly carrying out work on a roof, such as clients, designers and specifiers. This guidance will be useful to anyone planning, arranging or supervising roof work.

The safe use of vehicles on construction sites HSG 144 (1.35MB) pub 09/09

This book gives practical guidance on how to prevent vehicle accidents on construction sites. It provides information on planning and managing vehicle operations; selecting and maintaining vehicles; and safe working and driving practices. It will be useful to clients, designers, employers, managers, the self-employed, employees, safety representatives and plant hirers.

Want construction work done safely? - A quick guide for clients on CDM 2007 (165KB) pub 09/07

This leaflet answers some of the common questions about the 2007 Construction, Design and Management Regulations.

Example Risk Assessments

The following risk assessments show how a small plastering or bricklaying company might approach risk assessment within their work. These examples can be used as a guide when thinking about the hazards in your own business and the steps that you would need to take in order to control the risks.

Example risk assessment for contract bricklayers (208KB) pub 08/10

Example risk assessment for a plastering company (172KB) pub 08/10

Example risk assessment for a woodworking company (184KB) pub 08/10

Buildhealth

BuildHealth is a joint venture between the construction industry in Northern Ireland and HSENI. Its aim is to improve the health of the workforce in the Northern Ireland construction industry by preventing work related ill health, supporting and rehabilitating ill workers and using the workplace as a setting in which to improve health.

Follow this link to the Buildhealth website:

http://www.buildhealthni.com/index.asp