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Inspection Report

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Introduction

The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 make it mandatory to inspect and produce reports of the inspections of the following three areas of construction activities:

Any working platform or part thereof or any personal suspension equipment

The frequency of such inspections and reports is:

  1. Before being first brought into use.
  2. After substantial addition, dismantling or alteration.
  3. After any event which may have affected its strength or stability.
  4. At regular intervals of not more than 7 days.

An inspection of a working platform is only required where a person is liable to fall more than 2 metres from a place of work.

Persons in control of a scaffold must ensure that it is stable and of sound construction and that the relevant safeguards are in place before the scaffold is first used.

No report is required for a mobile tower scaffold which remains in place for less than 7 days.

Where an inspection of a working platform or a part thereof is required under 1. or 2. above then only one report is required in any 24 hour period.

Excavations which need support or to be battered back

The frequency of such inspections and reports is:

  1. Before work at the start of every shift.
  2. After any event likely to have affected its strength or stability.
  3. After any accidental fall of rock, earth or any material.

Cofferdams and Caissons

The frequency of such inspections and reports is:

  1. Before work at the start of every shift.
  2. After any event likely to have affected its strength or stability.

A competent person must complete the inspection and report and the report handed to the person who requested the report within 24 hours of the inspection. The report should then be kept on site until the work is complete and then retained for three months at the office of the person for whom the inspection was carried out.

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