NR/L3/INI/CP0044 ISSUE 3
Work Package Planning process
Organization: | NR |
Publication Date: | 1 June 2008 |
Status: | inactive |
Page Count: | 48 |
scope:
This Network Rail standard specifies the contents and acceptance criteria regarding the provision of sufficient information to on-site staff to enable them to manage the risks of the work activity on site. It specifies a three-stage planning process, detailed within a hierarchy of documentation, that describes, records and communicates arrangements resulting from each of these planning stages:
a) Construction Phase Planning stage (or HSE Planning for non-physical works);
b) Work Package Planning stage;
c) Task Briefing Planning stage.
This standard replaces the existing requirements for the production and briefing of Method Statements.
NOTE 2. Where the term "Method Statement(s)" is found within Network Rail standards and the Rulebook GE/RT8000, especially module "OTP", the three documents specified in this standard (Construction Phase Plan, Work Package Plan and Task Briefing Sheet) meet the requirements of the term "Method Statement".
This Level 3 standard is mandatory on all construction work
undertaken on behalf of Network Rail Infrastructure Investment,
including work undertaken at the preconstruction design and
preparation stages. Project preparation stages include site visits
by engineers/designers,
Where the project is non-physical or small scale, the reduced health, safety and environmental plan in Appendix D may be used, along with a Work Package Plan and Task Briefing Sheet.
When other delivery units (e.g. National Delivery Service, and Infrastructure Maintenance) within Network Rail provide services to a project, such services are within the scope of this standard. Construction Phase Plan Work Package Plan Task Brief Project
Purpose
The key aims of the CDM 2007 Regulations and this standard are to integrate health, safety and environmental matters into the management of the project and to encourage everyone involved to work together to:
a) improve the planning and management of projects from inception through to handover;
b) identify risks early on so that they can be eliminated or reduced at the design or planning stage. This will enable remaining risks to be properly managed;
c) identify areas where planning is most beneficial in terms of health, safety and the environment;
d) discourage unnecessary bureaucracy;
e) establish a clear flow of risk management from generic risk control measures through to those that control the specific risk of the activity on site.
The Work Package Planning process focuses attention on planning and management throughout projects, from design concept through to construction and handover. The main changes in this approach from Method Statements process include:
a) the principle that only the right information reaches the right people at the right time for them to do their job safely;
b) the pre-requisite that Network Rail routinely accepts work packages at the construction planning stage. Thereafter, only risks that are not obvious to a competent Contractor or likely to be difficult to manage and where risk control measures will benefit from joint planning arrangements by Network Rail and the Principal Contractor are formally accepted at the Work Package Planning stage;
c) reliance on robust Contractor processes and competent staff to control the tasks on site;
d) mandating the use of a consistent format and contents of Work Package Plans and Task Briefing Sheets across Network Rail and its Contractor organisations.
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