Do you know your responsibility under CDM Regulations?

Do you know your responsibility under CDM Regulations?

 

Construction Design & Management Regulations (CDM) 

 

The goal of the Construction Design and Management Regulations (CDM Regulations) is to guarantee that health and safety concerns are adequately taken into account during any construction project.

 

For the CDM Regulations, a client is an organization or individual for whom a construction project is carried out. The overall duty of the client is to make and maintain suitable arrangements for managing a construction project so that health, safety and welfare are secured.

 

CDM regulations clients’ duties include:

• Ensuring other duty holders are appointed, that is, designers (including a principal designer on projects involving more than one designer) and contractors (including a principal contractor on projects involving more than one contractor)
• Ensuring the project team’s roles, responsibilities, and functions are clear.
• Ensuring that the people and organisations they appoint have the necessary training, expertise, and organizational capacity to handle risks related to health and safety.
• Ensuring sufficient time and resources are allocated.
• Ensuring the project’s team members have efficient means of coordination, cooperation, and communication.
• Ensuring relevant information is prepared and provided to other duty holders.
• Ensuring that the principal contractor and principal designer fulfil their duties by setting up project status meetings or via written updates.
• Ensuring the availability of welfare facilities.
• Maintaining and reviewing arrangements to ensure they remain relevant.

 

 

On projects involving more than one contractor, the client must ensure that the principal designer prepares a health and safety file for their project. Its purpose is to ensure that, at the end of the project, the client has information about health and safety risks that anyone carrying out subsequent construction work will need to know.

 

Where one is required, the client should appoint the principal contractor early enough in the pre-construction phase to help the client meet their duty to ensure a construction phase plan is drawn up before the construction phase starts. The construction phase plan outlines the health and safety arrangements, site rules and specific measures concerning any work involving particular risks.

 

For single-contractor projects, the contractor must ensure the construction phase plan is prepared.

If a client fails to appoint either the principal designer or principal contractor where they are required, then the client must carry out their duties.

 

 

If construction work is scheduled to last longer than 30 working days and have more than 20 workers working simultaneously at any point in the project or exceeding 500 person days.

The client must notify the relevant enforcing authority (generally the Health and Safety Executive)

 

The client must submit the notice as soon as practicable before the construction phase begins, or arrange for someone else to do this on their behalf. The client must ensure that an up-to-date copy of the notice is displayed in the construction site office so that it is accessible to anyone working on the site in a form that can be easily understood. The client can either do this themselves or ask the principal contractor or contractor to do it.

 

FBS as a design and build contractor has a technical team comprised of Surveyors, Project Managers, Architects & Engineers. We act as principal contractor per Construction, Design & Management (CDM) Regulations 2015. If you have a project or need any assistance, you can get in touch with us now by filling in your contact details at

www.faisalbuildingsolution.co.uk/landing-page or call us at +44 330 118 0919