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Construction (Design & Management) Regulations Past and Present

Peter HarrisonTechnical Services Manager

CDM Past and Present• Purpose of CDM• How the Regulations have evolved• CDM 2015: Changes from 2007• Notifiable projects• Duty holders and roles• Duty holder involvement• Who is a designer?• When does a designer’s duties apply?

Construction (Design & Management) RegulationsCDM has 3 Main aims:• Improve health and safety• Have the right people for the right job at the right time to

manage the risks on site • Focus on effective planning and managing risk - manage the

risk not the paperwork

The Beginnings of CDMConstruction (Health, Safety & Welfare) Regulations 1994The planning supervisor role

Intended to be a supervisory, ensuring:• Designers co-operated.• Health & Safety Plan and Health & Safety File were prepared.• Health & Safety Executive notified• Advising the client• Adequacy and competence of designers and contractors.

CDM 2007Role of Planning Supervisor scrappedCDM co-ordinator, more active role included:• Advising the client about their duties.• Facilitating good communication.• Notify Health & Safety Executive.• Co-ordinating health & safety aspects of design.• Providing, or ensuring client provides pre-construction information.• Preparing or compiling the health and safety file.

CDM 2015Reasons for changes:• A perceived over-interpretation of the regulations.• CDM-C function in the pre-construction phase was thought to

be a bureaucratic add-on.• The persistence of unacceptable standards, particularly on

smaller sites.

CDM 2015Main changes:• No CDM co-ordinator• Principal Designer role• Greater Client involvement• H&S issues considered during a project’s development• Structural simplification• Removing domestic clients exemption• Construction phase plan for construction phase

Notifiable ProjectsCDM 2007

Longer 30 days or 500 person days of construction work.

CDM 2015Last longer than 30 working days and Have more than 20 workers

working simultaneously at any point during the project;

orexceed 500 person days.

CDM 2015 Duty Holder 1/6: ClientMake suitable arrangements for managing a project, including making sure:• Other duty holders are appointed• Sufficient time and resources• Notify HSE• Make sure information is prepared and provided to other

duty holders• Principal Designer and Principal Contractor carry out their

duties• Welfare facilities are provided

CDM 2015 Duty Holder 2/6: Principal DesignerPlan, manage, monitor and coordinate health and safety in the pre-construction phase of a project including:• Competence and organisational capability• Initiating the Health & Safety file• Identifying, eliminating or controlling foreseeable risksEnsuring • Designers carry out their duties• Prepare and provide information to other duty holders.• Help Principal Contractor deliver the construction phase.

Plan, manage, monitor and coordinate health and safety in the construction phase of a project:• Competence and organisational capability• Liaising with client and principal designer• Preparing construction phase plan• Organising cooperation between contractorsMake sure:• Site inductions are provided, unauthorised access• worker consultation and engagement: health & safety• welfare facilities are provided

CDM 2015 Duty Holder 3/6: Principal Contractor

CDM 2015 Duty Holder 4/6: Designer

When preparing or modifying designs, eliminate, reduce or control foreseeable risks that may arise during:• Construction• Maintenance and use of a building once it is built• Provide information to other members of the project team to

help them fulfil their duties.

Plan, manage and monitor construction work under their control.• Coordinate their activities with others in the project team• Comply with directions given by Principal Designer/Principal

Contractor.• For single contractor projects, prepare a construction phase plan

CDM 2015 Duty Holder 5/6: Contractor

Be consulted about matters which affect their health, safety and welfare

• Take care of their own health and safety, and of others who might be affected by their actions

• Report anything they see which is likely to endanger either their own or others’ health and safety

• Cooperate with their employer, fellow workers, contractors and other duty holders

CDM 2015 Duty Holder 6/6: Workers

CDM 2015 Stages & duty holder involvementPreparation: Client & Designer

Pre construction: Client & Contractor

Construction: Contractor & Designer

Post construction: Contractor & Client

Who is a designer?Anyone (person or organisation) that prepares or modifies a designDrawings

Design detailsSpecifications

Bills of quantityCalculationsThe person who selects products for use in construction is a

designer - Must take account of health and safety issues arising from their use

Local authority or government officials giving advice and instruction for statutory requirements - does not make them designers

Overseas designers? – person commissioning takes design responsibility

When does a Designer’s duties apply?When designs may be used in construction work and includes:

• Concept design• Competitions• Bids for grants• Modification of existing designs• Relevant work carried out as part of feasibility studies

Thank you for listening

Peter HarrisonTechnical Services Manager