- BAS-P
- Coordination during design and planning
- BAS-U
- Coordination during execution on site
- AMP
- The health and safety plan that holds them together
On a road contract several companies work after each other and sometimes on top of each other. The risks arise in the gaps: one leaves an excavation open, the next arrives with a lorry crane. Construction work environment coordination exists for exactly those gaps, which is why the responsibility is named rather than shared.
What the course goes through
- The statutory responsibilities of the client, BAS-P, BAS-U and the other parties, and the interfaces between them.
- Risk assessment and coordination during design, where most of it can be engineered away.
- Drawing up, structuring and keeping the health and safety plan current, with the focus on the special risks.
- The advance notice, and when it has to be given.
- Follow-up during execution: safety rounds, deviations and handovers between contractors.
The health and safety plan has to be kept current
The usual shortcoming is not that the plan is missing but that it was written once and then lay still while the site changed around it. It has to follow the project: new risks in, finished operations out, and it has to be available at the workplace for the people working there. That requirement is what keeps it alive.
There is most to gain during design
What is decided during design determines what becomes dangerous during execution, and at that stage a change costs almost nothing. An excavation drawn with room for a slope, a service run that does not require work over traffic, an assembly that can be done from the ground. BAS-U is then left handling whatever remains — often with closures costing more than the change would have.
Common questions
- Can the same person be both BAS-P and BAS-U?
- It happens and can work on smaller projects, but they are two assignments in two stages with different content. What decides is that whoever is appointed has the training, competence and experience the task requires — and time to perform it.
- We are a subcontractor. Do the roles concern us?
- You do not appoint them, but you work towards them. Anyone who understands what BAS-U needs and when delivers the right material the first time instead of being chased for it in the middle of an operation.
- Does this apply to plain road works too?
- Yes, construction and civil engineering work covers road contracts. On top of that, Trafikverkets competence requirements apply to the work on the road itself — the two frameworks sit on top of each other on the same site.
Coordination starts during design
The course covers both roles, because it is the interface between them that fails.
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