CHAPTER 3
CONTRACTOR AND RESPONSIBILITY
3.1 INTRODUCTION
This chapter will be discussed about contractor and its classes. And this chapter also will explain about their responsibilities in managing safety during construction work carried out.
3.2 Definitions
3.2.1 Contractor
A contractor is someone who enters into a binding agreement to perform a certain service or provide a certain product in exchange for valuable consideration, monetary, goods, services, even barter arrangements. In the building trades, a contractor is one who is engaged in the construction or building related services for a client.
The contractor can defined as a body or party that responsible to make reality painting that that provided by architect to form and actual size that was prescribed according to contract..
All construction work carried out is under the contractor's responsibility and contractor necessary, satisfy the condition that stated in the contract. Contractors that completing construction work will get consideration or profit that is shaped payment from a client or owner of the building. Payment imposed, this is in return for contractor's service and it was upheld approval from both parties. The agreement will exist with condition particular condition between contractor, employer and a few other parties which involved under construction.
3.2.2 Sub- contractor
The subcontractor is consisting of whole variety contractor who did work according to certain trade skill, expertise and their own capacity. Construction project usually needs employee from a contractor that is different at the same time.
3.3 CONTRACTOR
3.3.1 CLASSES OF CONTRACTOR
In order to obtain contract work from the government agencies and statutory board, registra...
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...fered in the tender. Based on CIDB directory for contractor, usually they perform light and not overall work compared to large contractor, such as maintenance of water supply and sewerage system, electrical installation, installation of water pipe, concrete repair works, landscaping works and other, but not all the work that they do are light , they also performing the heavy and and dangerous work such as:
I. High voltant Electric installation works.
II. Dam maintenance.
III. Lift and escalator installation.
IV. Exploding rock work.
3.4 SUMMARY
This chapter describes the terms for contractors and sub-contractors, contractor responsibility for the management of safety at construction sites is also important to ensure that the construction work can be carried out smoothly. Safety management also cannot be done well without the cooperation of all parties involved.
A person who contracts to do work for another person according to his or her own processes and methods; the contractor isnot subject to another's control except for what is specified in a mutually binding agreement for a specific job.
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...t a construction may constitute a personal service contract. Any contract involving a sole trader should expressly state what is to happen in the event that the sole trader becomes ill or incapacitated. Otherwise, this will leave the affected party with no recourse against the sole trader but to go to the trouble and expense of entering into a new contract with a different contractor.
First, traditional path is the tender documents have been prepared and then invite the tender and the employer appoints the contractor to construct the project.
As well as they are the only bodies that is really responsible for the construction safety effort. In any case if they not provide the safety attempts and some bad incident occurred then they are responsible for the critical case. The criteria are to be settled by the constructors. The most important and considerable thing in this regard is the health problems that can be suffered by the workers in some of the cases.