Construction phase plan template
Every construction project needs a construction phase plan, whatever its size. Regulation 12 of CDM 2015 puts it on the principal contractor, drawn up during the pre-construction phase and before the site is set up; where you are the only contractor, regulation 15 puts the same duty on you. HSE's position is that the plan should be proportionate to the size and scale of the job — which is why plans commonly come back for the opposite reason, describing hazards nobody on that site will ever meet. The plan below is written for that test: twelve sections that follow regulation 12 and Schedule 3 in order, a two-page small-works version, and the ten documents that sit around a plan on a real job.
15 documents. Helmet colours vary from site to site. This is a common convention, not a legal standard.
Written for this
15 documents — the plan and everything that sits around it.
The plan first, then the paperwork on both sides of the appointment: what the client hands over, what the contractor must hold before starting, and what goes in the file at the end.
What comes with every document
The same six things come with a single document or the whole library.
Fill it your way
Guided PDFs with a tooltip on every field, or complete it online. Type your site once and every document in the pack opens with it filled in.
Your logo on every page
Upload it once. It prints at the top of every page of every document you download, included with any purchase.
The law, cited
Each document shows the regulation it rests on. Check our working.
Yours to keep
No subscription, no login, no expiry. Revisions included.
Written from the approving side
By a contractor who reviews subcontractor submissions, and sends them back.
Kept current, free
Every source is re-checked monthly. A change that matters raises a revision, and you get it free.
How it works
Four steps, in this order.
- 1
Choose
A single document, a bundle for one hazard, or a pack for your trade or sector. Pay once.
- 2
Enter your site once
Site, reference, address, client, principal contractor. Every document in the pack opens with them filled in.
- 3
Add your logo
Upload it once. It prints at the top of every page of every document you download.
- 4
Download it finished
Filled, flattened, licensed to your business. When the law moves, the revision is free.
Legal basis
What these documents are built on.
Printed on the forms themselves, so you and whoever reviews your submission are reading the same references. Law and guidance are kept apart, because they are not the same thing.
Statutory provisions
- CDM 2015 reg 9(2) and 3
- MHSWR 1999 Schedule 1
- CDM 2015 reg 9(3) and 4
- CDM 2015 reg 12(3)
- CDM 2015 regs 8 to 10
- CDM 2015 regs 11 and 12
- Building Regulations 2010 regs 11F to 11L
- CDM 2015 Parts 2 and 3 (regs 4-8 and 12-15), Schedule 2 and Schedule 3
- HSE L153 Managing health and safety in construction, 2015
- CDM 2015 regs 15(5)-(6) and 12(2), Schedule 2 and Schedule 3
- CDM 2015 regs 4(4) and 11
- CDM 2015 reg 12(5)-(10)
- CDM 2015 regs 6 and 7
- CDM 2015 regs 5 and 8
- CDM 2015 regs 4-7 and 15(1)
- CDM 2015 reg 8
- CDM 2015 regs 13(4)(a) and 15(8)-(9)
- CDM 2015 regs 12(2) and 15(3)
- CDM 2015 regs 14 and 15(8)-(9)
- CDM 2015 reg 7
HSE guidance, British Standards and industry codes are not statute and carry no force in themselves — they are the standard the document is built to. And citing an instrument is not the same as satisfying it: what discharges the duty is a competent person in your business assessing this job and completing the document properly.
Our one rule
We will not tell you this makes you compliant.
No template can. HSE says it of its own examples: “Do not just copy an example and put your company name to it as that would not satisfy the law and would not protect your employees.” SSIP assessors want risk assessments written for a specific project within the last twelve months, and a generic document with your logo on it is unlikely to pass, whoever sold it to you.
What you are buying is the structure and the prompts — every section the law and HSE guidance expect the document to address, with the reference beside it. The judgement stays yours.
Why we don’t say “compliant”Before you buy
Will the main contractor accept it?
No template can promise that, and we won’t. It is written from the approving side of the desk, but your competent person adapts it to the job and signs it off. That step is what makes it yours.
Is VAT included in the price?
No. Prices are ex VAT; VAT is added at checkout.
What format is it?
A fillable PDF with a tooltip on every field. Or complete it online: type your site once and it downloads finished, with your logo on every page.
What happens when the law changes?
Every source is re-checked monthly. A change that matters raises a revision, and you get it free.
Is it a subscription?
No. Pay once. No subscription, no login, no expiry.