To improve standards of safety, health and welfare on sites the Construction Safety Partnership (CSP) was established, with participants from the Dept. of Enterprise, Trade and Consumer Affairs, Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), Construction Industry Federation (CIF), FAS, the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) and the Department of the Environment and Local Government. 

Their objective, to develop a safety plan that provides a structure by which employers, management, workers and all duty holders can co-operate in making construction sites safer places to work.

To facilitate this the CSP (Construction Safety Partnership) established the Safety Representative Fac-ilitation Project (SRFP) to help workers and management develop consultation on safety, and in particular, the Site Safety Representatives at site level.

This document will give you practical guidance on how to Structure consultation with your site safety representative. We do not intend to be prescriptive or restrictive as to how consultation is carried out on your site, but we recommend that you take cognizance of these guidelines when developing the consultation process.