Building Market Federation (CIF) actively represents and serves over 3,000 members covering companies in all locations of the Irish building industry by way of a network of 13 Branches in three Regions all through Ireland and through its 37 Sectoral Associations.

CIF delivers its solutions to members either directly or by way of its Branch Network and Sectoral Associations. Member firms come from all over sectors of the industry and span all sizes of firms from the very compact to the pretty big. The 37 diverse Associations are grouped in 4 crucial categories:

Basic Contractors, mechanical & electrical, specialist contractors, dwelling builders

Each nearby CIF Branch will include things like members from every of these four sectors.

CIF’s team of building experts know the business from encounter, from member feedback and from analysis. As a member you also can benefit from our challenge solving expertise.

What they Do

The CIF engages with Government, specialist groups, enterprise groups and the social partners on our members’ behalf. They monitor problems and trends, initiate proposals and act in our members’ interests at local, national and EU levels.

13 Branches

Represent members at neighborhood level throughout Ireland. Branch members and devoted regional employees deal with concerns affecting their localities and regions. They contribute to national policies by means of representation on the Federations Executive Body.

37 Associations

Represent common contracting, property building and specialist firms in Ireland’s building business providing a forum for members to create initiatives and deal with troubles affecting every single sector of the market.

CIF Safety Services help members in implementing greatest security and health practices for the prevention of accidents. CIF Safety Solutions supplies an substantial variety of suggestions on Safety, Health and Welfare difficulties and also presents education courses designed particularly for the Irish Construction Sector as effectively as person member organization requires.

Public Consultation – Draft Functioning on Roads Code of Practice for Contractors with 3 or Less Staff

The Well being and Safety Authority has created a draft Functioning on Roads Code of Practice for Contractors with 3 or Much less Workers which it intends to publish in accordance with section 60 of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Perform Act 2005 (No. ten of 2005).

The Safety, Overall health and Welfare at Perform Act 2005 requires all employers to have a safety statement for all workplaces which is primarily based on written threat assessments. This Code of Practice allows employers, who employ up to 3 people and are engaged in road performs, to meet the legal requirement to have a security statement in a uncomplicated and straightforward way.

This Code of Practice is primarily based on the Overall health and Safety Authority’s Safe System of Operate Plans (SSWP). The SSWP relies heavily on pictograms to explain and clarify hazards and controls, therefore creating a wordless document exactly where security can be communicated to all workers regardless of literacy or language abilities.

At present there are 5 SSWP for employers to use every a single covers common construction activities: Ground Works Residence Constructing Demolition New Commercial Buildings and Civil Engineering. These SSWP are covered by the Code of Practice for Contractors with Three or Much less Employees published in 2008.

This supplementary Code of Practice deals especially with the Operating on Roads SSWP. This code of practice can be employed by any trade engaged in road works.

Operation of Passenger and Goods Lifts

Following a recent fatal accident involving operation of a goods lift, the Well being and Security Authority is asking all employers to assure that the lifts on their premises have undergone the important thorough examination by a competent person.The HSAA would advise all employers in all sectors that passenger and goods lifts such as pavement hoists and dumb waiters, are topic to requirements set out in chapter two of the Security, Overall health and Welfare at Perform (Basic Application) Regulations, [S.I No.299 and 732 of 2007].Lifts ought to have a periodic thorough examination by a competent individual each 6 months. Reports of such examinations shall be kept offered for inspection by a HSA inspector. All repairs needed to lifts need to also be carried out by a competent individual. Under no circumstances need to goods lifts be applied for carrying passengers unless they meet all the requirements for passenger lifts. All staff should be clearly instructed on the dangers of inappropriate use of goods lifts.Lifts which are not developed for lifting persons shall be clearly marked to this impact. Builders Tauranga are expected to maintain a register of lifting equipment which shall also be kept accessible for inspection by a HSA inspector. Employers who currently have either passenger or goods lifts on their premises need to make sure that they have undergone the necessary thorough examination and that the risks related with the use of such lifts are addressed in the Security Statement to guarantee that these dangers are controlled.