Buildsafe NI

Buildsafe NI is a five-year safety initiative for the construction industry run under the auspices of the Construction Industry Forum Northern Ireland. It is set against the background of 44 deaths and over 500 severely injured in the last 10 years. Buildsafe NI brings together the public sector client, the industry, the trade unions and the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland as partnering groups and is being taken forward in the context of the existing legal obligations and requirements.

Each of the partnering groups to the Initiative is devising its own Action Plan to contribute to the overall aim and target. The Government Clients’ action plans are as follow: .

Action Point 4 of the GCCG Buildsafe-NI Second Action Plan introduced a requirement for the Principal Contractor to  report regularly on health and safety matters. To ensure uniformity of reporting the Principal Contractor shall be required to use the Buildsafe - Contractors Health and Safety Report Template (pdf, 52kb) to report at each site meeting.

The selection criteria for consultant appointments should include a requirement for all consultants to achieve a rating of not less than two in all categories of the Health and Safety Executive’s Self-Assessment of Commitment to Duties under the CDM Regulations (pdf, 766kb).