SHA services

Order No. 599, Construction Client Regulations (Byggherreforskriften). Regulations concerning safety, health and working environment at construction sites.

  • Are you construction client ?

  • Are you familiar with your responsibilities ?

  • Do you know your duties and responsibilities as construction client ?

The purpose of the Regulations is to protect employees from risks by paying regard to safety, health and working environment on construction sites in connection with planning, project preparation and execution of building or civil engineering works.

This means there is a requirement to have focus on safety, health and working environment throughout planning, engineering and execution of project. In other words, already from concept phase the client shall ensure there is focus on reducing injury and accident risk for personnel at construction sites.

We provide a practical approach where risks will be identified and systems implemented to ensure the risks are handled and under control.

We can:

  • Be your professional partner and support within SHA / HSE

  • Develop your SHA system to match your project and/or company

  • Develop a SHA system for the construction client

  • Be SHA / HSE advisor in projects, from concept design to completion

  • Take responsibility as SHA coordinator for project preparation phase and execution phase

Let us help you organise the project so that all phases, involved parties and your organisation are prepared and qualified to ensure the regulatory intentions

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SHA coordinator

SHA coordinator is the project's professional resource and shall support the project management in their safeguarding of Client's duties and responsibilities in accordance with construction client regulations. SHA coordinator should also support the project management in achieving the project's HSE goals .

SHA coordinator shall establish the project's internal procedures , documents and control plans for SHA.

Project- and construction management, and other responsible personnel (project leaders, other coordinators, contract management etc.) have duties and responsibilities to ensure that laws and regulations, the builder's HSE policy and guidelines related to SHA are complied with. The SHA coordinator shall assist and support them and help managers to comply.

We can facilitate SHA / HSE in all project phases from concept to completion and handover, and ensure the Client's duties and responsibilities in accordance with construction Client Regulations is safeguarded.

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Our task can be:

  • Establish, monitor and update the projects control plan for SHA
  • Establish project's internal procedures and relevant documents related to SHA / HSE
  • Participate in relevant project meetings
  • Resource planning for follow up on SHA / HSE
  • Assist and support projects in their understanding of the construction Client Regulations responsibilities and duties, and Client's internal SHA / HSE requirements
  • Perform and document risk assessments and keep these up to date throughout all the project phases
  • Ensure that risk reducing measures are described, planned and implemented
  • Ensure SHA requirements are implemented in the procurement process and evaluation of suppliers and be the client SHA representative under negotiation meetings with suppliers
  • Establish and carry out preventive SHA processes, internally and in cooperation with external involved parties
  • Establish procedures for continuous monitoring and mapping of SHA (e.g. Non conformance reporting, HSE reporting, routines for lessons learned etc.)
  • Ensure end user participation and good cooperation with operation and construction teams
  • Identify experience transfer from other projects and ensure measures for learning and sharing of experience is provided the project
Slips & lapses

There are many risk assessment methods available. Methods used in the oil & gas industry are well proven and are used widely in the industry. A safe job analysis is basically same as a job hazard analysis. Check out the methods we use in the oil & gas industry.

Risk assessments

SHA coordinator - requirements

Construction Client Regulations

Section 14. Coordination

SHA coordinator tasks:

Coordination during the project preparation phase includes

  • coordinating the project preparation in order to safeguard considerations regarding safety, health and working environment
  • ensuring that there is a plan for safety, health and working environment.

Coordination during the execution phase includes

  • following up risk factors in the client’s plan for safety, health and working environment
  • following up the preparation of schedules to ensure that sufficient time is set aside for execution of the various work operations
  • following up compliance by employers and one-man enterprises with the plan for safety, health and working environment
  • coordinating work by employers and one-man enterprises whereby they may affect each other with regard to safety, health and working environment, including cooperation between employers and one-man enterprises
  • ensuring that employers follow up compliance with the requirements of section 9 Preventive measures
  • ensuring that lists are kept of persons employed at the construction site, see section 15.
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fatal injury in the workplace

SHA plan - requirements

Construction Client Regulations

Section 8. Requirements regarding the plan for SHA (safety, health and working environment)

The plan for safety, health and working environment shall be based on risk assessments, be adapted to the building or civil engineering works concerned and shall include

  • an organisational chart indicating the distribution of roles and the form of contract
  • a progress plan describing when and where the various work operations are to be carried out, see section 5, second paragraph, (c), and paying regard to coordination of the various work operations
  • specific measures associated with activities that may involve risks to life and health, such as
  1. work near underground installations
  2. work near high voltage power lines and electrical installations
  3. work at locations with passing traffic
  4. work where employees may be exposed to landslides or sinking in mud
  5. work involving the use of explosives
  6. work in wells, underground earthworks and tunnels
  7. work exposing employees to the risk of drowning
  8. work in caissons with a compressed-air atmosphere
  9. work involving use of diving equipment
  10. work where persons may be put at risk of landslides, sinking in mud or being injured by falls or falling objects
  11. work involving demolition of load-bearing structures
  12. work involving the assembly or disassembly of heavy prefabricated elements
  13. work involving risk of hazardous exposure to dust, gas, noise or vibrations
  14. work that puts employees at risk from chemical or biological substances which may involve a strain on the safety, health and working environment or involve a legal requirement for health monitoring
  15. work with ionising radiation requiring the designation of controlled or supervised areas
  16. work involving fire and explosion hazards.
  • procedures for deviation handling.

The client shall ensure continuous updating of the plan in the event of changes of relevance for safety, health and working environment.