Health and Safety Questions

H1 - Does the Relevant Organisation have a health and safety at work policy**

Yes / No

H2 - Does the Relevant Organisation have a health and safety at work system*

Yes / No

H3 - If no to either H1 or H2, please give reasons.

H4 - Are copies of the written statement (as required by section 2(3) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and Regulation 4 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, or EU member state equivalent) enclosed of the Relevant Organisation's:

•  general policy on health and safety at work?

Yes / No

•  allocation of organisational responsibilities at work?

Yes / No

•  adopted preventative and protective measures, such as safety codes of practice and safety instructions, relevant to the type of project proposed, and its adopted arrangements for the effective planning, control, monitoring and review of these preventative and protective measures?

Yes / No

H5 - Does the Relevant Organisation have processes and procedures to ensure that these Regulations are followed?

Yes / No

H6 - State the name and status of the person responsible for the implementation of the Relevant Organisation's health and safety policy.

H7 - Give brief details of safety audits and inspections carried out in similar activities to this project, including details of frequency, whether records are kept and who is responsible for remedial action.

H8 - Does the Relevant Organisation train staff in health and safety according to their particular job?

Yes / No

H9 - Does the Relevant Organisation keep health and safety training records for staff?

Yes / No

H10 - Does the Relevant Organisation have a clear process for consulting staff on health and safety matters?

Yes / No

H11 - Is this consultation process set out in the Relevant Organisation's health and safety procedures?

Yes / No

H12 - Does the Relevant Organisation have health and safety representatives?

Yes / No

H13 - Does the Relevant Organisation have clear arrangements for staff to report health and safety risks and issues to management?

Yes / No

H14 - Does the Relevant Organisation have a risk assessment process applicable to each type of process or area of work?

Yes / No

H15 - Does the Relevant Organisation record the findings?

Yes / No

H16 Are they regularly reviewed?

Yes / No

H17 - Does the Relevant Organisation produce method statements of how to work safely, based on risk assessments?

Yes / No

H18 - Does the Relevant Organisation have procedures to make sure its staff understand these method statements?

Yes / No

H19 - Does the Relevant Organisation have access to competent health and safety advice (either within the organisation or external)?

Yes / No

H20 - Does the Relevant Organisation belong to any safety organisations?

Yes / No

H21 - Does the Relevant Organisation report incidents and accidents when required under the applicable EU requirements?

Yes / No

H22 - Does the Relevant Organisation keep records and statistics of accidents and incidents?

Yes / No

H23 - Does the Relevant Organisation make sure it learns from incidents and accidents, and changes working practices as necessary?

Yes / No

H24 - Does the Relevant Organisation have a nominated manager to whom any employee health problems can be reported?

Yes / No

H25 - Does the Relevant Organisation provide any necessary personnel protective equipment to staff free of charge?

Yes / No

H26 - State (and provide details if necessary) whether any Prohibition Notices or Improvement Notices (or EU equivalent) have been served on the Relevant Organisation or any of its directors / managers in the last three years with respect to health and safety or fire safety issues in relation to PPP/PFI projects, [insert type of service] projects or similar projects.

H27 - State the number of fatal accidents and major injury accidents (requiring immediate notification to the relevant Health and Safety enforcing authority) which have occurred to (a) the Relevant Organisation's employees over the past three years arising from the conduct of activities similar to those covered by PPP/PFI projects, [insert type of service] projects or similar projects; (b) people other than its employees (for example, members of the public) over the past three years arising from the conduct of such activities.

H28 - Does the Relevant Organisation make sure that its managers and supervisors understand the duties under the CDM Regulations (or EU equivalent)?

Yes / No

H29 - Give brief details of how the Relevant Organisation will discharge the duties of and/or appoint the roles of client, principal contractor and designers pursuant to the CDM Regulations 2007, together with a brief description of how such matters have been dealt with by the Relevant Organisation on similar projects.

H30 - In relation to the CDM Regulations 2007, provide details of how the Relevant Organisation's own policy, organisation and arrangements meet the Core Criteria set out in the Approved Code of Practice for the appointment of client, principal contractor and designers.

H31 - Will the Relevant Organisation agree to taking a novation of the contract between the CDM Coordinator and the Local Authority?