Safety and safety planning - Tunnel Engineering: Basics and Additional Services for Design and Construction - page 321

Figure 8-6 Construction
site preconditions for the
appointment of health and
safety coordinators and
their duties
When must a coordinator be appointed? The client has, according to the type and extent
of construction works, to appoint one or perhaps more coordinators for planning of the
construction and for the construction itself, if it can be expected that employees of more
than one employer will be working on the site. The size of the project is actually insig-
nificant.
The employment of sub-contractors, that is companies which independently undertake
partial works such as electrical installation as part of the overall project, denotes the pres-
ence of more than one employer.
The coordinator must be appointed in good time so that the duties can be fulfilled during
the design phase and also during the construction phase.
Another reason clients may have to appoint a coordinator to look after their duties under
the BaustellV is given when the knowledge of the clients about the coordination of their
site and the creation of healthy and safe conditions is not sufficient.
What are the duties of the coordinator? As experts in the subject, health and safety co-
ordinators have the duty of supporting and advising the client, and the consultants, archi-
tects and contractors in their collaboration to integrate health and safety concerns during
the various phases of a project. They also have to contribute with their expert knowledge
to ensuring the safe running of the project, the construction schedule and later works to
the structure at any time.
Tasks of coordinators during the planning of the construction of the project
- Integration of health and safety protection into the organisational and management con-
cept for construction.
- Development of measures to protect against dangers due to and during the collabora-
tion of more than one employer.