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The Health and Safety Plan required under CDM Regulations

The Health and Safety File required under CDM Regulations
Training
Approved Code of Practice under CDM Regulations
The Management of Health and Safety at
Work Regulations 1999
10.8 Risk assessment
Reasonably practicable
10.9 The Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare)
Regulations 1996
10.10 Other major regulations
Publications

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10.4
10.5
10.6
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11 Starting the construction work

11.1 Pre-commencement meeting and start-up arrangements
11.2 The contractors initial work
11.3 The resident engineers work
Work before going to site
The site office
11.4 Early matters to discuss with the agent
11.5 Some early tasks for the resident engineer
11.6 Meeting the employer
11.7 Setting up the clerical work

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12 Site surveys, investigations and layout

12.1 Responsibility
12.2 Levelling
12.3 Plane surveying
12.4 Setting out verticality, tunnels and pipelines
12.5 Setting out floor levels
12.6 Site investigations
12.7 Trial pits
12.8 Exploratory holes
Rotary core drilling
Light cable percussion drilling
Percussion drilling
12.9 Other means of ground investigation
12.10 Judging the safe bearing value of a foundation
12.11 Testing apparatus for a site soils laboratory
For moisture content determinations
For grading analyses of soils
For in situ density test (sand replacement method)
For compaction tests
12.12 Site layout considerations
Haulage roads
Planning bulk excavation

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