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Monthly health and safety audit
Checklist · Every month
A monthly look at how health and safety is managed on site: the plan, documents, competence, inspections and the site itself.
Use it in Sitro: add it to a project and fill it on a phone, free for 14 days.
The law and guidance behind it
- Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, Regulations 12, 13 and 15 (the principal contractor plans, manages and monitors)
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, Regulation 5 (arrangements, monitoring and review)
The questions
Where and when
- Site
- Date
Planning and documents
- Construction phase plan up to date with the work now going on
- Risk assessments and method statements in place and accepted for the work in hand
- HSE notification (F10) displayed and current, where needed
- COSHH assessments for substances in use
People and competence
- Everyone on site inducted, with records
- Cards and training in date for the work people do (CSCS, plant, scaffold, first aid)
- Toolbox talks and briefings given and recorded
Inspections and records
- Scaffold and excavation inspections done and recorded at the right times
- Plant and lifting equipment checks and thorough examinations in date
- Incidents and near misses reported and followed up
On site
- Housekeeping: routes clear, materials stacked, waste managed
- Work at height protected (edges, openings, ladders)
- Fire points, escape routes and hot works controlled
- Welfare kept clean and stocked
Actions
- Anything found that needs putting right (write "None" if nothing)
- Action taken or who it was passed to
Sign-off
- Audited by
- Date and time
- Signature
A template to adapt to your site, not legal advice.
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