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Safety File

  • 19-09-2018 7:37pm
    #1
    EyeCake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭


    We are in the finishing phase of total house renovation and extension and the architect says I must get the Safety Consultant to prepare a safety file for our house before he can issue a completion certificate.
    It seems a bit OTT to collect all the manuals for equipment and instructions for washing floor in in 1 file.
    I asked a friend who bought a new house a year ago and they didn't get one?


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  • #2
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,349 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    EyeCake wrote: »
    We are in the finishing phase of total house renovation and extension and the architect says I must get the Safety Consultant to prepare a safety file for our house before he can issue a completion certificate.
    It seems a bit OTT to collect all the manuals for equipment and instructions for washing floor in in 1 file.
    I asked a friend who bought a new house a year ago and they didn't get one?

    Safety File is extremely good practice and may even be mandatory under the PSCS requirements.

    We used to prepare safety files for home owners back in the mid naughties before the crash and these new regulations.

    The file contained everything to run the house, every manual, drawings, drainage etc


  • #3
    TheBoyConor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭TheBoyConor


    There shouldn't be any need to get a safety consultant to prepare it for a single house that is your own.
    Anyway, it is the psdp's duty to prepare it.
    Tbh, it really doesn't matter whether it's perfect and done to the nth degree or whether it's a load half assed crap. What matters is that it's just done and the box ticked.

    Most safety files I've seen are brutal pieces of work anyway. Half assed and often wildly inaccurate because they are thrown together at the end of a job. And I'm talking big infrastructure projects here too. Major main drainage projects and road realignment projects.


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