Civil engineering and groundworks: record

The record

What Stephen has delivered in civil engineering

Many years of work with groundwork and reinforced-concrete-frame contractors, covering highways, footings and deep excavation works.
A background in plant operation before moving into health and safety.
Temporary Works Coordinator training; reviewing and managing high-risk activities including deep excavations across live sites.
Reviewing high-risk risk assessments and safe systems of work, approving subcontractor competence and leading accident investigations on civil engineering works.

Disciplines

The disciplines applied here

Temporary works and high-riskTemporary works coordination and the management of high-risk activities: excavations, groundworks, concrete frames, work at height and demolition.Read more CDM 2015 and constructionSpecialist support to clients, designers and principal contractors under CDM 2015, on commercial and housing projects from groundworks to completion.Read more Risk assessments and RAMSSuitable and sufficient risk assessments under regulation 3, safe systems of work and method statements for high-risk work, and COSHH training.Read more Contractor managementAssessing subcontractor competence, supporting subcontractors on live sites, and the pre-qualification, induction and monitoring behind contractor control.Read more Accident investigationInvestigations led and managed through to closeout, RIDDOR reporting, and the evidence a business needs when the regulator or an insurer asks.Read more Inspections and auditsSite and premises inspections with reports and closeout, compliance auditing and gap analysis, for construction, retail and process clients since 2011.Read more

Places

Where civil engineering work was done

Guides

Guides that apply

IncidentsAccident investigation: finding the root cause, not the person to blameThe HSG245 four-step approach, immediate, underlying and root causes, what RIDDOR requires and when, and the evidence to secure in the first hour.Read more Risk managementRAMS that get read: risk assessments and method statements for the people doing the workWhat regulation 3 requires, why a method statement is practical rather than legal, the five steps, and how to write RAMS the workforce recognises.Read more

Questions about civil engineering safety

What must happen before digging near underground services?

HSG47 sets the sequence: obtain the service plans, use a cable avoidance tool and signal generator to locate services, mark them, hand-dig trial holes to expose them, and keep mechanical excavation clear of them. A permit to dig records that each step was done.

When does an excavation have to be supported?

Whenever there is a risk of a person being buried or trapped by a fall or dislodgement of material, whatever the depth. The support or the battering back must be designed for the ground, installed before anyone enters, and inspected at the start of every shift under regulation 24 of CDM 2015.

Who is responsible for falsework on a reinforced-concrete frame?

The temporary works coordinator controls it under BS 5975: every item is on the register, has a checked design, is inspected before loading and is loaded and struck only under a permit. The principal contractor appoints the coordinator; the frame contractor builds to the design and stops when the permit says stop.

Civil engineering and groundworks

Health and safety in civil engineering

What Stephen has delivered in civil engineering

The disciplines applied here

Where civil engineering work was done

Guides that apply

Questions about civil engineering safety

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