Search results Competence Mobile Plant and Site Transport Safe Driving and Work Practices Competence Competence should be the main criteria when selecting a driver/operator or banksman. Competence should be monitored throughout that person's employment or throughout the project etc.... D5-competence Supervision Mobile Plant and Site Transport Safe Driving and Work Practices Supervision The selection of competent supervisors is also crucial to the safe management of construction vehicles. The supervisor must have relevant experience, the ability to direct the construction... D5-supervision Excavators Mobile Plant and Site Transport Specific vehicles 360° Excavators Generally there are two types of 360° hydraulic excavators, one being mounted on tracks, the other mounted on wheels. Rope operated excavators are generally mounted on tracks. Supervisors... D5-excavators Graders Mobile Plant and Site Transport Specific vehicles Graders The motor grader is a machine used principally for shaping and finishing, rather than digging or transporting. It can form shallow Vee ditches, batter shallow banks and camber earth road surfaces; its... D5-graders Loading Shovels Mobile Plant and Site Transport Specific vehicles Loading Shovels The loading shovel is a versatile machine, manufactured in an extremely wide range of types and sizes. The range of work it is capable of performing is equally wide and varied. The loading shovel... D5-loading-shovels Planers Mobile Plant and Site Transport Specific vehicles Planers The operation of planing is essentially the removal of old (worn) road surfaces, to a controlled depth, producing screedings in a granular form which can be recovered and removed from the working site. ... D5-planers Locomotives Mobile Plant and Site Transport Specific vehicles Locomotives Locomotives must be driven only be competent persons whose names are recorded as being authorised to do so by site management. When wagons are used to convey personnel they must be fitted with adequate... D5-locomotives Checklist Metal Decking Temporary Works and Falsework Safety Check List Check list for metal decking method statement Metal decking method statements should normally include the following so far as is relevant in the circumstances:- Name and address of the metal decking contractor. Name... E19-checklist-metal-decking Breathing Apparatus Confined Spaces Breathing apparatus Breathing apparatus is used for work in confined spaces when the atmosphere is not safe to breathe. The equipment consists of a properly fitted helmet or facepiece, by means of which the wearer can breathe uncontaminated air;... E2-breathing-apparatus The Construction Design and Management Regulations Asbestos Legislative requirements Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015) The Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2015 (see section CDM Regulations) place duties on clients, designers and contractors to ensure that the... C5-the-construction-regulations 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53