So who's confirming to the law?

[Sharpend]

For the conscientious? 

http://www.voltimum.co.uk/articles/biggest-shake-domestic-electrical-work-2007?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2016_02_16VoltiTECH_Sustainability

 

[OnOff]

Or even conforming.....

 

[apprentice87]

A complete lot of total tango'd Radishes!!!!!!

john...

 

[Sharpend]

Or even conforming.....

Yes this preditcitive text is getting boring, I've never spent so much time correcting my spelling as I do with this and they call it advancement? 

 

[sprocketflup]

Predictive text totally gets on my wildebeest.

 

[kerching]

Yes

i graping  well agree

 

[Andy™]

there is an app that does this for you - tick a few boxes etc and it makes a PDF ready to be emailed. never actually used it for a job yet...

 

[Essex1]

Really not a major issue. Templates are fairly plentiful on-line and all you need to do is fill in the variables. 

Unfortunatly or fortunatly (which ever way you choose to look at it) this is the direction construction is going in, and has been for quite some time. You can choose to fight it and loose or get on board and be a reputable contractor that is seen to be moving with the times and actually puts some thought into managing the risks on site. 

These things will only come into play if in the 1/10000 times a very serious accident occurs the HSE will delve into your processes and if you have ticked all the right boxes and done everything you can to limit risks then you will be fine. If you have not done a thing then you will be in the dog house. 

 

[Manator]

The H&S will be doing spot checks, only last year before Christmas they had a push so its just a matter of time.

 

[M107]

The H&S will be doing spot checks, only last year before Christmas they had a push so its just a matter of time.

Indeed they did.

A small site (19 new builds) behind my parents place, just before Christmas had a delivery of the concrete risers unfortunately no crane on site to lift them into place down a hole, so a few straps on the bucket of the JCB backhoe, with the bucket at full reach they tried to drop the risers into place...................oh no the JCB starts to tip. 

The fix to stop the JCB tipping was to use a bog standard fork truck to apply down force on the front JCB bucket.

Nobody would have been any the wiser if the lads on site hadn't recorded & you tubed the footage, HSE regularly trawl you tube for just such footage.

The lad that posted the footage was binned & site was shut down for a week & now have regular snap HSE inspections.

 

[ProDave]

Indeed they did.

A small site (19 new builds) behind my parents place, just before Christmas had a delivery of the concrete risers unfortunately no crane on site to lift them into place down a hole, so a few straps on the bucket of the JCB backhoe, with the bucket at full reach they tried to drop the risers into place...................oh no the JCB starts to tip. 

The fix to stop the JCB tipping was to use a bog standard fork truck to apply down force on the front JCB bucket.

Nobody would have been any the wiser if the lads on site hadn't recorded & you tubed the footage, HSE regularly trawl you tube for just such footage.

The lad that posted the footage was binned & site was shut down for a week & now have regular snap HSE inspections.

That's hardly a "spot check"

Someone shopped them for doing something silly and dangerous.  A far cry from the average spark doing a rewire safely and diligently, but he couldn't be rsed to fill out a ream of paper to say exactly what he was doing.

 

[kerching]

I remember when the only CDM we had to,worry about was the Cadbury's Dairy Milk and whether the apprentice had brought the correct order of it back for brewtime

just saying

 

[binky]

so that'll be £500 to change a light bulb to cover the admin.

 

[Andy™]

for some of my jobs, it would take a longer to fill in the forms etc than it would to actually do the job

 

[Doc Hudson]

So this is supposedly now encompassing domestic electrical work?

If you’re the sole contractor on the job, you’ll now by law need to create a construction phase plan, no matter how big or small the job is. You don’t need to go overboard, but you do need to spend some time considering the risks on site.

If some sole trader or partnership is doing several small jobs per week, unless an incident happens where the H&S are called in, How on earth would H&S know where you have chosen to work so they can do a random inspection.  And if it is a private domestic dwelling, would they legally be allowed to enrter the building if no one has been injured.? 

 

[Essex1]

So this is supposedly now encompassing domestic electrical work?

If some sole trader or partnership is doing several small jobs per week, unless an incident happens where the H&S are called in, How on earth would H&S know where you have chosen to work so they can do a random inspection.  And if it is a private domestic dwelling, would they legally be allowed to enrter the building if no one has been injured.? 

No but they could come to your registered office and ask to see what you have been doing with your CPPs.