Ursulan, Sarah | Features | Health and Safety at Work magazine
Published: 16.10.2007
Where the potential for hazardous atmospheres is enough for you to supply monitors, you need to provide workers with training on how to use them. Providing a worker with a gas detector and showing them the area in which they will work is not a recipe for success. Sarah Ursulan explains why you need to give them thorough training.
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Published: 16.10.2007
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The new Construction (Design and Management) Regulations require the F10 notice to be signed by/on behalf of the client. This is to declare that the client has an understanding of their duties. As we are a consultancy, we do not consider that when acting as CDM Co-ordinator we should sign this for them. To date, since the regulations changed in April, every client sends back the F10 notice to us unsigned. This is despite us doing everything possible to explain the client situation to them. Can you help?
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