Have you used the ICE Conditions of Contract?

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quote:In the ice contract appendix that puts the consultants name in the frame it also asks for the name of the planning supervisor. Is that you. Is there a reason why you have to be named?

The Planning Supervisor is a role set out in the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM), which is an important piece of health and safety legislation (although you couldn't tell that from the name).

CDM governs the way in which health and safety issues are managed during the design and implementation of most construction projects, and the Planning Supervisor (nowadays known as the CDM Coordinator) is the person responsible for overseeing the H&S aspects of such projects.

While the Health and Safety Exective don't seek to apply CDM to archaeological work as such, they do apply it to all qualifying construction sites, so any archaeologist that is working on an actual construction site is nevertheless subject to CDM.

CDM imposes duties on all relevant parties - the client, the designer, the main contractor, and subcontractors (such as the archaeologists), and on the named individual in the role of Planning Supervisor. The PS is often an employee of the designer or the main contractor. Failure to comply can lead to prosecution. Therefore, where it is relevant, it is important to name the Planning Supervisor in any contract. If it is not relevant, just put "N/A" in that box in the contract.


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