Construction Regulations for Contractors in South Africa

Understand your legal duties before construction work starts. Altra Medical helps contractors, subcontractors and managers understand the Construction Regulations, health and safety plans, safety files, appointments, risk assessments and contractor-control requirements that apply to construction work.

Introduction

The Construction Regulations 2014 place specific duties on clients, principal contractors, contractors and other appointed persons involved in construction work.

These duties include preparing and implementing health and safety plans, maintaining safety files, making the correct legal appointments, conducting suitable risk assessments, managing subcontractors and keeping evidence that the required controls are actually being implemented.

Altra Medical helps contractors understand these requirements in practical terms so that compliance is built into the project from the start — not only addressed when a client, auditor or Department of Employment and Labour inspector asks for proof.

For contractors working on larger or more complex projects, understanding the Construction Regulations is essential to avoiding delays, rejected safety files, repeated audit findings and unsafe work.

This course provides a practical roadmap for contractors who need to understand their responsibilities under the Construction Regulations and how those duties connect to the health and safety plan, safety file, appointments, risk assessments and contractor-management process.

Construction Regulations for Contractors

The contractor who engages with major organisations have to make peace with the fact that they will always need a Health and Safety Plan, and the plan will have to be implemented, maintained and handed over to the client on completion of the job. This workshop will provide clear road map to doing just that.

Construction Regulations for Contractors – 1 Day

This one-day programme is designed for contractors, subcontractors, supervisors and managers who need a practical understanding of their duties under the Construction Regulations 2014.

The course explains the responsibilities of clients, principal contractors and contractors, and shows how these duties connect to health and safety specifications, plans, safety files, legal appointments, risk assessments, contractor management and project audits.

The aim is for the learner to leave with a clear understanding of what must be in place before work starts and how construction health and safety compliance should be maintained throughout the project.

Contents

  1. OHS legal liability for clients, contractors and managers
  2. Client duties under the Construction Regulations
  3. Principal contractor and contractor responsibilities
  4. Health and safety specifications
  5. Health and safety plans
  6. Safety files and required project documentation
  7. Legal appointments and responsibilities
  8. Risk assessments and safe-work planning
  9. Contractor and subcontractor management
  10. Site audits, inspections and corrective actions
  11. Section 37 agreements
  12. Notification of construction work
  13. Training, competence and medical fitness
  14. Emergency planning and contractor control

Skills Program

This is a one-day practical workshop designed to help contractors, subcontractors, supervisors and managers understand their responsibilities under the Construction Regulations 2014.

Programs supporting the Construction Regulations for Contractors workshop are:

  1. Risk Assessment
  2. Incident Investigation
  3. Fall Arrest
  4. Fall Arrest Rescue
  5. Fall Protection Planner
  6. Health and Safety Representative
  7. OHS Legal Liability
  8. First Aid
  9. Fire Fighting
  10. Evacuation Warden
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