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Health and safety: 2 hours per year minimum

Health and safety matters are integral to every part of the design process. There are various elements to the healthand safety requirements that you might consider:

• pertinent construction safety legislation and building regulations for which the architect is responsible
• workplace health and safety including safety on construction sites
• CDM and other local legislative requirements
• risk assessment
• post-occupancy health and safety
• attaining the CSCS qualification in the UK.

Please note that two hours is a minimum. It is expected there are many circumstances in which you ought to aim to achieve much more than two hours in this area.
Some examples would be:

• anyone with planning safety responsibility
• when any changes to relevant legislation comes into force – eg, changes to the CDM regulations
• anyone trying to obtain the CSCS professional visitor’s card.

For guidance on health and safety, visit the Health and Safety Executive| website.