Construction
Publications
The absolutely essential healty and safety toolkit for the smaller contractor (2.45MB)
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.
Managing health and safety in construction - CDM Regulations 2007 (Approved Code of Practice) (988KB)
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.
Want construction work done safely? - A quick guide for clients on CDM 2007 (165KB)
This leaflet answers some of the common questions about the 2007 Construction, Design and Management Regulations.
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
HSE construction website
A lot of useful information can be found on the HSE construction microsite:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/construction/index.htm
