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I did an audit of one of our projects regarding their project's compliance to our organisations requirements, the cleints requirements and legislation applicable to the project, in recent days.
The project manager did not know what some basic regulatory requirements are for some basic hazards our staff face on most projects. E,g working in the heat, PPE requirements, working alone and fatigue management.
For this reason I have raised a CAR saying that project managers need to learn what these basic regulatory requirements are.
It was put to me that a project manager has access to the safety advisor who knows this stuff, they have project safety management plan and for so long as they are working to that (implementing it) then they don't need to know what the regulations relating to these basic hazards are.
It was also put to me that the company also has safety management procedures which should spell out the actions the project manager needs to take to ensure compliance and therefore, again, they don't need to know what the regulations require.
It was my view that if I was working for the cleint and I asked a project manager what the regulations require for some basic hazards and they could not tell me then I would regard this as a cause for concern and take it futher.
Was I justified in reaching the conclusion I did?
thanks
The project manager did not know what some basic regulatory requirements are for some basic hazards our staff face on most projects. E,g working in the heat, PPE requirements, working alone and fatigue management.
For this reason I have raised a CAR saying that project managers need to learn what these basic regulatory requirements are.
It was put to me that a project manager has access to the safety advisor who knows this stuff, they have project safety management plan and for so long as they are working to that (implementing it) then they don't need to know what the regulations relating to these basic hazards are.
It was also put to me that the company also has safety management procedures which should spell out the actions the project manager needs to take to ensure compliance and therefore, again, they don't need to know what the regulations require.
It was my view that if I was working for the cleint and I asked a project manager what the regulations require for some basic hazards and they could not tell me then I would regard this as a cause for concern and take it futher.
Was I justified in reaching the conclusion I did?
thanks


