Field journal

Guides for the people
who have to produce it.

Short, practical writing on the regulations and the paperwork a UK contractor actually meets. No product pitch in the body, no invented statistics, and a plain note wherever we are describing something Unibuild does not do.

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Published

What is up so far.

This is a young journal and we would rather it stayed short and correct than grew quickly. More is being written.

CDM 2015: who holds the duty, and what has to existThe five duty holders, the two notification thresholds, what the construction phase plan must contain and what belongs in the file at handover. Guide CIS in plain terms, and where Unibuild stopsVerification, the 20% and 30% rates, gross status, what the deduction is calculated on, the monthly return, and a straight answer on what the platform does not do. Guide The CDM 2015 checklistWork through your position on a live project and see where the gaps are. Takes about four minutes. Tool Who sees what: access on a construction systemWhy a supervisor should be able to raise a quote without seeing the margin on it, and how access is set per person rather than inherited from a role. Practice The gaps, answered honestlyPayroll export, CIS, profit reporting, RIDDOR submission and multi-factor authentication. Everything Unibuild does not currently do, in one place. Straight answers

Being written

What is next.

If one of these would be useful sooner, say so and we will move it up. We would rather write the thing somebody is actually waiting for.

RAMS that hold up: What an inspector is actually looking for in a risk assessment and method statement, and the difference between a document that exists and one that is doing its job.
Permits to work: Hot work, confined space entry, work at height and lone working. When a permit is the right control and when it is paperwork for its own sake.
Retention and the final account: Where money quietly goes missing between the last valuation and the release of the second half of retention.
Getting a field app adopted: Why most rollouts stall in week three, and what the firms that got it to stick did differently.