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As a Practice Accredited in Project Supervisor
Design Process we can assist you in meeting
your Statutory Health & Safety duties.
PSDP Services are available on projects for
which we are providing Full Architectural Service
and to which a Main Building Contractor is to be
appointed
Project Supervisor Design Process Services
The new Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Construction) Regulations 2013 came into affect on the 1st August 2013. Under
the Regulations a Client must appoint, in writing, for every project a Competent Project Supervisor for the Design
Process (PSDP) and a Competent Project Supervisor for the Construction Stage (PSCS).
Prior to the 2013 Regulations the definition of a ‘project’ excluded works to domestic dwelling, unless they involved a Particular
Risk. A significant change to the 2013 Regulations is that the definition of ‘project’ now includes works to domestic
dwellings.
PSDP and PSCS Explained:
What is construction work? Examples of construction work covered by the regulations include: building a new house or an extension, porch or garage, converting your attic, refitting your kitchen, re-slating your roof, fitting solar panels or a skylight, and re-wiring your house. Tasks that are not considered construction work under the regulations include: routine home DIY, grass cutting, tree planting and general gardening work, and general maintenance to appliances, and boilers. What do you have to do? By law, you have to: • Determine the competency of people doing paid construction work for you. • Appoint project supervisors if required.
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Keep the Safety File for the work as appropriate.
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Let the Health and Safety Authority know if your project is
going to take longer than 30 days or more than 500 person
days (person days mean the number of days the work takes
multiplied by the number of people doing the work).
You must appoint project supervisors if there is more than one
contractor involved in the work, or there is a particular risk, or
the work is going to last more than 30 days or more than 500
person days.
What do Project Supervisors do?
The project supervisors have various safety-related duties they must
meet in the project, particularly around co-ordination of the works
and the co-operation of the workers.
If you need to appoint project supervisors, then the Project
Supervisor Design Process (PSDP) must prepare a safety file. This
file should contain the information needed to safely maintain the
building and or structure and have the information needed to carry
out future work on the building or structure.
The PSDP must give you the Safety File when at the end of the
works. You need to keep this file and give it to anybody carrying out
future works on the building or structure, or pass on the file to any
new owner.
Who carries out these roles?
In practice, it is usually the Architect for the project who carries out
the role of PSDP and the Building Contractor for the project, if
competent, who carries out the role of PSCS, as this avoids
unnecessary overlapping of duties and hence reduces costs.
However, these appointments must be made separately to the
appointments as Architect or Contractor.
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