F: Specialist activities

1.1 Visit the Government website for more information on this initiative, as well as safe working guidance on working on roads and highways.

1.3 Copies of all legislation can be found online.

1.3.3 For further information on the Traffic Management Act visit the legislation.gov.uk website.

1.4.1 The chapters may be purchased in hard copy from TSO or freely downloaded from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy website.

1.4.2 The Code of Practice can be freely downloaded from the GOV.UK website, or it can be purchased from TSO.

1.4.2 For more detailed advice on subjects not covered in the Code of Practice refer to Chapter 8 of the Traffic signs manual, which can be freely downloaded.

1.6.5.2 Further information can be found in Guidance Note GS6 on the HSE website.

1.8.1.1 For further information refer to the HSE publication, Reducing risk in temporary traffic management operations (CIS53).

1.8.2 - 1.8.9 For further information refer to Safety at street works and road works: a Code of Practice (2013).

1.9 You will also need to refer to the table in the inside back cover of the Code of Practice (also included at Appendix F).

1.11 For the latest information, please visit NHSS: certification for contractors and subcontractors on the National Highways website.

Appendices A-F Based on © Crown copyright diagrams from Safety at street works and road works: a Code of Practice (2013). For further information visit the HSE website. 

2 overview 

Supporting information to complement this section can be found in the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) standards catalogue or the Network Rail Safety Central website:

Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) 
Network Rail Safety 

2.1 An explanation of how the ROGS Regulations apply to safety critical work is contained in the ORR publication Safety critical tasks – Clarification of ROGS Regulations requirements (Railways safety publication 4). 

2.2 For further information visit the Network Rail Safety Central website. 

2.3 If making enquiries about becoming a supplier of construction services to Network Rail, a list of the main contacts can be found on the Network Rail website, or you can contact them directly.

2.4.2 Workers who successfully undergo PTS training receive a Keypoints – Personal track safety (PTS) health and safety booklet outlining safe working procedures and their responsibilities when working on the railways. A PDF copy of the booklet is available online.  

2.5.2 In recognition of these serious risks the Construction Plant-hire Association and Network Rail have developed guidance for tower cranes and mobile cranes alongside railways, which are free to download from the CPA website:

Requirements for tower cranes alongside railways controlled by Network Rail 

Requirements for mobile cranes alongside railways controlled by Network Rail 

Appendix C For further details, the structure and full text of the Good practice guide on competence development visit the Railway Group Standards Online website. 

3.2 For further information refer to guidance from the National Federation of Demolition Contractors (NFDC).  

3.3.2.1 For further information refer to the Code of Practice for temporary works procedures and the permissible stress design of falsework (BS 5975).

3.3.3 For further information refer to the NFDC guidance on demolition attachments. 

3.6 A useful source of information is the National Federation of Demolition Contractors (NFDC). 

3.7.1 A card scheme for the certification of competence of demolition operatives (CCDO) is managed by the National Demolition Training Group (NDTG). 

3.7.2 For further guidance refer to the NFDC document Disconnection of services for demolition and refurbishment work places. 

3.7.3 Information on reducing the health risks of lead in construction work can be found on the HSE website. 

3.7.4 Notification of notifiable non-licensed work can be made online using form ASB NNLW 1 

3.7.4 For advice on suitable awareness training visit the HSE website. 

3.7.4 Asbestos guidance note Industry guidance for non-licensed work with asbestos containing materials within a demolition or refurbishment environment is available from the NFDC. 

3.8.5.3 High reach demolition rig demolition guidance notes can be downloaded free from the National Federation of Demolition Contractors. 

3.9.4 For further information refer to the Code of Practice for noise and vibration control on construction and open sites: Noise (BS 5228-1). 

Appendix B For further information regarding DRIDs visit the NFDC website. 

4.6.2 For further information refer to the HSE publication Fire safety in construction (HSG168)

4.8.4 For further guidance, DVDs and copies of the appropriate codes visit the National Association of Shopfitters website.

5.3.1 For safety precautions that need to be observed when working over or near to water using an articulated boom mobile elevating work platform, refer to the HSE information sheet The selection, management and use of mobile elevating work platforms (GEIS6). 

5.4.1 Refer to the HSE information sheet Personal buoyancy equipment on inland and inshore waters (AIS1). 

5.4.6 The Royal Yachting Association (RYA) runs courses throughout the United Kingdom. 

6.1 For further information visit the Home Builders Federation’s (HBF) website. 

6.1 The HBF has made available a managers' toolbox talk that can be made bespoke and delivered to staff and contractors on site. 

6.2.1 The HBF produces an annual report on health and safety statistics, provided voluntarily by a number of its member organisations, which is available on the HBF website. 

6.3 The HSE has produced several before-and-after interactive case studies on vehicle safety in the workplace, which are based on events that inspectors have reported. 

6.3 A safety, health and environmental agreement is available for use by house builders intending to work together to ensure the safe development of the main infrastructure in respect of traffic and pedestrian management and public safety throughout the works. 

6.4.2 For further information on the Safe use of vehicles on construction sites (HSG144) visit the HSE website. 

6.4.2 In addition to this guidance the HBF Health and Safety Forum has produced accompanying Guidance on manoeuvering of roof trusses by telehandlers. 

6.6.3 Guidance can be found in the HSE publication Fire safety in construction (HSG168), which can be downloaded free from its website.  

6.6.3  The Structural Timber Association (STA) publishes free guidance documents that can be downloaded from its website, including 16 steps to fire safety, which promotes good fire practice on timber-frame construction sites. 

6.7 The National Federation of Roofing Contractors (NFRC) guidance sheet Controlling silica when disc cutting roof tiles can be downloaded free from its website. 

6.7 The Construction Dust Partnership provides information to industry to promote good practice and reduce dust-related diseases.

Appendix A Further information can be found on the workplace transport and falls sections of the HSE website.