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Health & Safety Xpert™ Total Toolkit is an easy to use software package that will save you massive amounts of time producing crucial health and safety documentation legally required under current UK law. This includes the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 and the new Construction Design Management (CDM) Regulations 2007.
The Method Statement printout is available with Health and Safety Xpert Total Toolkit. Click here to view a sample Method Statement PDF
The Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 describes the employers’ main duties which are to ensure, so far as reasonably practicable, the health and safety and welfare at work of all their employees.
The degree of risk in a particular job or workplace needs to be balanced against the time, trouble, cost and physical difficulty of taking measures to avoid or reduce the risk. In particular the employer must provide safe plant and systems of work (method statements).
Method Statements need only be completed when there are unforeseen, unplanned or specialist activities on site which are not covered by relevant risk assessments. Method Statements are site-specific and can only be completed by a trained, experienced and competent person. Method Statements must be completed on site.
In addition the Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2007 stipulates the requirement of method statements from contractors to be included in the Construction Phase Health and Safety Plan.
Method statements are an important part of complying with other specific regulations to determine a safe system of work including:
- Working at Height Regulations 2005
- Electricity at Work Regulations 1989
- Confined Spaces Regulation 1997
- Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations 2006
Use the Method Statement template included with Health and Safety Xpert to help you prepare, implement, communicate and record safe systems of work in accordance with the findings of the relevant Risk Assessments.
