Health and safety co-ordination plans
The purpose of health and safety co-ordination plans is to set out the arrangements for co-ordinating health and safety on a construction worksite where there may be many contractors and where the circumstances can change quickly from day to day.
It is the principal contractor’s responsibility to make sure that a health and safety co-ordination plan is prepared before any construction work starts, and to make sure that the plan is implemented, reviewed and changed when necessary.
For more information about health and safety co-ordination plans and other duties of principal contractors, refer to
- Working safely in the general construction industry or
- Working safely in the housing construction industry
Blank health and safety co-ordination plan
To assist industry, WorkSafe has prepared an example of a completed health and safety co-ordination plan for a principal contractor on a housing construction site.
Example of a health and safety co-ordination plan for a housing site
