Retail fit-out: health and safety record

The record

What Stephen has delivered in retail fit-out

Health and safety support on retail fit-out projects from shell and core through to Category B, with clients and contractors.
Site and premises inspections, RAMS review and contractor management on fit-out programmes.
Creating and reviewing policies and procedures, and identifying training needs, for retail clients.

Disciplines

The disciplines applied here

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 Contractor managementAssessing subcontractor competence, supporting subcontractors on live sites, and the pre-qualification, induction and monitoring behind contractor control.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 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 Training and coursesCITB, IOSH and NEBOSH courses delivered, from the Directors’ Role and SMSTS to Managing Safely and the NEBOSH Certificates, plus bespoke training.Read more

Places

Where retail fit-out work was done

Guides

Guides that apply

ManagementThe health and safety policy: what the law requires and what a good one containsSection 2(3) of the 1974 Act, the five-employee threshold, the three parts of a policy, the arrangements section inspectors read first, and who signs it.Read more LeadershipThe directors’ role in health and safety: what the board is accountable forSection 37 personal liability, the HSE and IoD framework of plan, deliver, monitor and review, corporate manslaughter, sentencing, and what a board does.Read more

Questions about retail fit-out safety

What is the difference between shell and core, Category A and Category B?

Shell and core is the landlord’s bare unit: structure, envelope and the main services capped off. Category A adds the base build-out, typically raised floors, suspended ceilings, basic mechanical and electrical services and finishes. Category B is the tenant’s fit-out: the layout, shopfront, fixtures, lighting and everything that makes the unit a particular shop.

Does CDM 2015 apply to a shop fit-out?

Yes. Fit-out is construction work under the regulations. Where more than one contractor is involved, which is almost always, a principal designer and principal contractor must be appointed, a construction phase plan is required before work starts, and the health and safety file must be handed over at the end.

Who manages fire safety while a unit is being fitted out?

The fit-out contractor for the unit and the centre or landlord for the building, and the arrangements must be agreed in writing before the unit’s detection is isolated: temporary detection, hot works permits, fire watch, extinguishers, escape routes through the hoarding and the point at which the permanent system is recommissioned.

Retail fit-out

Health and safety in retail fit-out

What Stephen has delivered in retail fit-out

The disciplines applied here

Where retail fit-out work was done

Guides that apply

Questions about retail fit-out safety

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