Safety and safety planning - Tunnel Engineering: Basics and Additional Services for Design and Construction - page 322

- Development of measures for the communal use of safety facilities and health protec-
tion facilities.
- Inclusion of health and safety concerns into a concept for later works on the structure.
These general tasks lead to the following individual tasks:
- Consideration of the general principles of §4 ArbSchG into the design, identification of
ways of avoiding health and safety risks.
- Production (or organising the production) of the health and safety plan, discussion of
health and safety measures with the client or with the appointed consultants.
- Determination of interactions between works on the site and other operational activities
or influences on or near the site, which affect health and safety.
- Collaboration in the design of site facilities.
- Advice about the design of permanent safety facilities for later maintenance and repair
and production of the file with the necessary information for safe and healthy imple-
mentation of later works.
- Working toward the consideration of health and safety concerns in the tender and award
documents, collaboration in the checking of the bids.
- Advice about scheduling, particularly concerning the planning of time periods for con-
struction works in order to avoid dangers, which could result from simultaneous paral-
lel working.
- Collaboration in the production of the prior notice and its sending to the responsible
authority (normally the factory inspectorate or the safety office).
In case more than one coordinator is appointed, intensive discussions are necessary, partic-
ularly when coordination is undertaken by different coordinators during the design phase
and during the construction phase.
Tasks of coordinators during the construction of the project
- Organisation and coordination of collaboration between contractors regarding health
and safety as the works proceed.
- Checking compliance with the health and safety measures in the collaboration between
contractors.
- Updating and adaptation of the health and safety plan and if appropriate the file for later
works to the structure.
These general tasks lead to the following individual tasks:
- Posting and if necessary adapting the prior notice.
- Announcement, adaptation and updating of the health and safety plan and working
toward its compliance and the implementation of any necessary health and safety meas-
ures by the contractors.
- Information and possibly discussion with all contractors including sub-contractors with
detailed explanation of the health and safety measures.
- Coordination of the collaboration between the contracting companies regarding health
and safety and the application of the general principles according to §4 ArbSchG.
- Working toward compliance with site rules and site facility plan, if these have been
produced, to avoid reciprocal hazards.