Pre-tender Health and Safety Plan

A summary of the matters which should be addressed at the pre-tender stage is given in an Appendix to the Approved Code of Practice to the Regulations, which should always be consulted. This shows the topics which should be covered where relevant to the project  

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The person requesting that construction work commence, the client, must first of all appoint a duty holder , someone who has a duty of care for health, safety and welfare matters on-site. This person will be called a planning supervisor . The planning supervisor must produce a pre-tender health and safety plan and coordinate and manage this plan during the early stages of construction. 

There are, in effect, two plans - the pre-tender health and safety plan and the construction phase health and safety plan. The pre-tender plan is sent to prospective principal contractors so that they are fully aware of the health and safety risks associated with the project and the standard of health and safety performance expected of them. The response of prospective contractors to the plan should provide an indication of health and safety competence of the contractor. The main contents of the pre-tender plan will be ... 

The pre-tender health and safety plan is developed into the health and safety plan by the principal contractor and... 

Providing relevant health and safety information about existing structures and/or the site which is to be developed to the coordinator for inclusion in the pre-tender health and safety plan... 

Specific approaches to deal with high-risk activities identified in the pre-tender Health and Safety Plan (which may well not specify detailed control steps)... 

Under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations, a pre-tender and construction phase health and safety plan must be prepared. These plans and their conterrts have been covered extensively in Chapters 3 and 7. 

The planning supervisor is responsible for ensuring that the pre-tender stage health and safety plan is prepared so that prospective principal contractors can be fully aware of the project s health, safety and welfare requirements. It also helps the client to assess the resources being allocated to health and safety and the competence of the prospective principal contractor. 

HSC (1995) Managing construction for health and safety Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994 Approved Code of Practice. London HSE, Appendix 4, see also HSE information sheet no 42, The pre-tender stage Health and Safety Plan and HSE information sheet no 43, The Health and Safety Plan during the construction phase. 

Health and Safety Executive (1995) Construction (Design and Managemen) Regulations 1994 The pre-tender stage health and safety plan. HSE construction information sheet no 42, London HMSO. 

Planning in accordance with the Policy in order to reduce risks by means of risk assessment, planned safety systems of work, method statements and training, is carried out at pre-tender and contract phases. Four weekly safety meetings allow Health Safety issues to be fully considered outside of commercial constraints. 

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