Describe the welfare requirements of the Construction Design Management Regulations. Clients and contractors share the legal responsibility to provide these facilities on all sites, regardless of their size and must provide enough facilities to cover the number of employees on site and be suitable for the type of work being undertaken.

Before any construction begins on a project, the pre-construction information organised by the client should contain the arrangements for the provision of welfare facilities. On notifiable projects (those that are longer than 30 days and involve more than 20 workers on site at any one time or more than 500 person days) the client must make sure construction doesn’t begin until they are satisfied that adequate welfare facilities will be provided. Although the size of facilities will depend on the size of the project, facilities include toilets, washing facilities, changing areas and lockers, facilities for rest, plus drinking water