Who should plan and organise the construction site and the work?

Planning and organising the workplace and the work is something that all parties in the construction project are involved in. The client and others participating in the design can influence the work environment during the construction phase to a great extent through the choices made during the planning and design phase.

The client has overall responsibility

As a client, you must ensure that the construction site and establishment area correspond to the needs that the construction project will have. When you take into account health and safety aspects and logistics right in the early planning of the construction project, you create the best conditions for a safe and efficient construction site.

What you do as a client in the early planning creates the conditions for other parties to take their responsibility. For example, the client needs to ensure that there is enough space to make it possible for Bas-U and employers to properly plan and organise the work within the establishment area and at the construction site.

Designers contribute to planning and logistics

Designers like architects, structural engineers and others who participate in planning and design, also have a responsibility for the work environment and need to contribute through their work to good planning and logistics at the construction site.

Tip! The time you spend on good planning of the establishment area and logistics in a construction project often entails well-thought-out choices of work methods and work equipment. When good conditions have been created at an early stage, it promotes a good work environment management for everyone. Overall, it becomes easier for all contractors to avoid creating risks for themselves or for others on the joint construction site. This also applies to small construction projects.

Bas-P must coordinate during the planning and design

Bas-P's work in coordinating all parties during the planning and design phase is based on what is to be done and in what way it is to be done. As Bas-P, you thus have great influence and the opportunity to create the conditions for good workplace logistics and a appropriate establishment area.

Bas-U must ensure that the construction site is safe

Bas-U must ensure that the joint workplace is safe and that, among other things, the necessary staff areas are available. As Bas-U, you need to make this sure at an early stage so it is in place when the first contractor starts work.

Contractors must also work on the work environment

As a contractor, your opportunities to influence the joint construction site vary depending on the role you have in the construction project. Regardless of the type of contractor you are, you must plan your own work so that health and safety risks are minimised for your own staff as well as for others on the construction site.

Planning and organising the construction site and the establishment area

Those who plan and organise the construction site and establishment area need to take into account and make sure to work on the following

• site layout plan and logistics
• site huts and staff areas
• demarcations of the construction site and use of signs
• planning and locations to receive and store material
• connecting links and traffic routes
• installations for electricity, gas, water etc.
• lighting
• prevention and warning of fire
• ensure evacuation
• first aid.

You also need to consider and plan for the handling of materials and waste, among other things

• transport of building products or other materials within, to and from the construction site
• storage and handling of waste and hazardous materials and substances
• how materials and equipment are stored and arranged.

Choose working methods and equipment

The choices made during the planning and design phase in the construction project have a major impact on which methods and which equipment will be possible to use when the work is to be carried out. In the construction phase, Bas-U and the contractors need to continuously assess and choose what is most suitable from health and safety perspective, and then it helps if good conditions have been created during the planning and design.

When you choose working methods and equipment, among other things you must regard and make sure that

• equipment and installations must be checked before they are put into use and regularly thereafter
• you choose according to ergonomic principles to avoid unnecessarily tiring physical loads.