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• Safety goals for the project and arrangements for monitoring and review.
• Environmental restrictions and on-site risks.
The construction phase of the Health and Safety Plan will be drawn up by
the Principal Contractor to account for risks noted above and to allow for
methods of dealing with these risks and other risks arising on site and must
include:
• Management structure and arrangements for monitoring health and safety
matters.
• Liaison with other parties on site and with the workforce.
• Selection and control of other contractors and exchange of information.
• Site security, induction, training and welfare details.
• Production of risk assessment and method statements.
• Emergency and reporting procedures.
The above are of course only an indication of the requirements and each
project will have its own particular needs. The HSE Approved Code of Practice
(see Section 10.6) gives further guidance on these and other requirements of
the CDM Regulations.

10.4 The Health and Safety File required under
CDM Regulations

The purpose of the Health and Safety File is to provide clients, and those
who may do work for them in future, with information on any residual risks
remaining within the finished structure. This may be needed for cleaning and
maintenance, future construction or alteration and eventual demolition. The
planning supervisor has a duty to ensure that the file is prepared and passed
to the client and the other participants have a duty to ensure that all relevant
information is supplied accurately and promptly. As preparation of the file
will be one of the last actions relating to the project it is important to decide
early on who is responsible for producing it. The file should not contain
records of past plans and risk assessments but should include:
• A brief description of the work and how any pre-existing hazards have
been dealt with.
• Key structural principles, safe working loads and exclusions on types of
loading.
• Any hazards with regard to materials used and for cleaning and
maintenance.
• Information for removal of any plant or equipment and any related hazards.
• Location and marking of services including electric, gas, fire fighting
systems.
• As-built information and drawings showing means of safe access and exit
from all parts of the structure.