Will we hit 500+ man days on-site?

[Benpointer]

As discussed elsewhere on here, you should notify HSE of a build project if: "The construction work is expected to last longer than 30 working days and have more than 20 workers working at the same time at any point on the project or exceed 500 person days" (my bold).

 

https://www.hse.gov.uk/construction/cdm/faq/index.htm

 

We were never going to trouble the first criteria, there is neither sufficient room on site for that many people, or in my brain to coordinate that amount of work at once. 

 

I pondered the second criteria for some time.  Our frame was built in a factory off site but most of the rest of the build involves people on-site doing stuff.  500 days at, say £300 per day = £150k and we will be spending a fair bit more than that on the build.  But then again how much our spend is materials?

 

In the end I decided to register the build with HSE via an F10 form, just in case.

 

But out of curiosity, it occurred to me that with the aid of our excellent  Reolink 4G CCTV I could easily keep an approximate track of how many people work how many days on-site.   

 

So that is what I am doing.  

 

So far the groundworks, frame erection, scaffold and half the roofing has totalled 130 man days.  Lots still to come of course, including: insulation & membranes, window fitting, UFH, screed, cladding, 1st fix electrics and plumbing, plastering, flooring, joinery, 2nd fix, kitchen, decorating... (landscaping?).

 

Will reach 500?   Touch and go, I think.  

 

Has anyone else kept stats of their build?

 

 

 

 

[JohnMo]

Didn't bother 

[Russell griffiths]

6 years, just me, have I gone over. 🤣🤣

[nod]

As above 

Don’t bother 

 

Our first build was on a main road and across from a site and we had three impromptu visits All while the scaffolding was up

This time we are down a county lane So no passing HSE

Scaffolding was there main gripe each time 

Reason for using a company each time 

[Benpointer]

It's not really about whether to register or not.  I did because I read somewhere that the HSE are never interested in small projects* and if we did have an incident, and it looks like we should have registered, the hot water we'd be in would probably be quite a few degrees hotter.  Also, it was free to register so no apparent downside.  

 

Having said that, I perfectly understand those who decide not to.

 

I just thought it would be interesting to track days on site and see at the end of the project whether I actually needed to register

 

(* I'll be sure to let you all know if we do get a visitation from the HSE - I'll be regretting registering and you can say 'told you so' 😉 )

Edited Saturday at 15:47 by Benpointer