Approved Code of Practice 2007 (ACoP)
The HSE's Approved Code of Practice (ACoP): Managing Health and Safety in Construction, gives practical advice on how comply with the law. It states that if you follow the advice given you comply with the law as far as CDM regulations are concerned. If you are prosecuted for breach of health and safety law, and it is proved that you did not follow relevant provisions of the Approved Code, you must show that you have complied with the law in some other way, or a Court may find you at fault.
The ACoP came into force in April 2007. This edition is a complete re-write from the original and revised ACoP's that were written for the CDM regulations 1994.
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