CDM2007 - The Construction Design and Manangement regulations here is a brief overview on this piece of legsilation for Clients having construction work done.

1. Construction
(Design & Management)
Regulations 2007
A Brief Overview
By David Cant
Veritas Consulting: Health and Safety Consultants
www.veritas-consulting.co.uk

2. CDM 2007 – Making A Difference
Why the CDM Regs are needed

3. CDM 2007 – Making A Difference
Why the CDM Regs are needed

4. CDM 2007 – Making A Difference
The Challenge
• To change
attitudes
• To change
behaviours
• Achieve sensible
risk management

5. CDM 2007 – Making A Difference
The Problem
Fatal Accidents:
• Average of 70 workers
killed each year
Injuries Reported:
• Around 4,500 major
• Around 8,250 >3 day
1000s of accidents not
reported

6. CDM 2007 – Making A Difference
The Problem
Occupational ill health:
• 65,000 musculo-
skeletal
• 15,000 respiratory
• 6,000 skin
• 5,000 hearing loss
• 1000’s of ill health
problems not reported

7. Revised CDM Regulations
Construction Design &
Management (CDM) Regulations
2007
• Revision brings together CDM
1994 and Construction (Health,
Safety and Welfare) Regulations
1996
Key Aims
• Focus on effective planning and
management of risk
• Improve cooperation and
coordination
• Simplify competence assessment
• Reduce bureaucracy

8. CDM 2007 – Making A Difference
What are the main changes?
• Combined CHSW and CDM
Regulations apply to all
construction work
• New trigger for
appointments and
preparation of the plan –
Notification (F10)
• Client’s duty on
management arrangements
• No more “Client’s Agent”
• A new dutyholder- the Co-
ordinator
• Clarity in relation to
competence assessment

9. CDM 2007 – Making A Difference
Cutting back on paper
• Does it reduce risk on site?
Should be the main criteria
for all actions.
• CDM 2007 requires 3
documents (if project is
notifiable)
– A Notification (F10 form)
– A Construction phase
health and safety plan
– The Health and Safety
File

10. CDM 2007 – Making A Difference
Expectation on Clients
• They should make sure
things are done not
necessarily do them
themselves
• Coordinator is their key
H&S adviser for the
project
• Must provide enough
time and resource to
allow the project to be
delivered safely

11. CDM 2007 – Making A Difference
Clients’ Duties
• Engage competent and
adequately resourced team
members
• Provide relevant information to
team
• Ensure arrangements for
managing the project are suitable
• Ensure welfare is in place from the
start
• Ensure work does not start until
the PC has a construction phase
plan
• Ensure the H & S File is prepared

12. CDM 2007 – Making A Difference
Co-ordinators
More than just a change of
name:
• Key client adviser on
competence, provision of
information, adequacy of
construction phase plan
• Ensures proper co-
ordination of the design
process
• Ensures the right
information to the right
people at the right time
• Draws up the H&S File

13. CDM 2007 – Making A Difference
Who can be a Co-ordinator
• Anyone - so long as they fulfil
competence given in ACOP
• An appointment has to be
made early – but by who?
• The duties can be carried out
by a
– Designer
– Contractor
– PC
– or full time Coordinator
• On small jobs a combined role
of designer and Coordinator
may have advantages

14. CDM 2007 – Making a Difference
Who are Designers?
• People who prepare a
design for construction
work, including:
– Drawings
– Schedule of work
– Design details, analysis,
calculations
– Specifications & bills of
quantities
– Design & Build
contractors
– Statutory bodies that
require features that are
not statutory
requirements

15. CDM 2007 – Making a Difference
Designers
Designers have to:
• Ensure clients are
aware of their duties
• Make sure they
(designer) are
competent
• Only do initial design
work until co-ordinator
appointed (notifiable
projects)
• Eliminate hazards,
reduce residual risks
• Provide information

16. CDM 2007 – Making a Difference
Designers
Consider buildability, operability, maintainability throughout the design
process
Design review should include hazard elimination & risk reduction
Simple design
measure to reduce risk

17. CDM 2007 – Making a Difference
Designers

18. CDM 2007 – Principal Contractor
Notifiable Projects
• Prepare a suitably developed Construction Phase Plan
• HSE notified before starting work
• Liaise with contractors in developing plan
• Arrange
– site inductions
– any further information and training needed for the
work
• Consult the workers
• Prevent unauthorised access
• Prepare the Health and Safety file
• Part 4 of CDM 2007 contains the duties to control specific
worksite health and safety risks

19. CDM 2007 – Contractors
Notifiable Projects
• No Contractor shall carry out work unless:
- Provided with names of CDM Co-ordinator and PC
- HSE notified before starting work
- Given access to relevant parts of H & S Plan
• Every Contractor shall:
- Provide information to PC that may affect H & S of
persons on site; affect the H & S Plan; be included in
H & S File
- Comply with directions from PC
- Promptly provide information to PC of any reportable
accidents & dangerous occurrences

20. CDM 2007 – Good Management
Site Safety

21. CDM 2007 – Good Management
Site Safety

22. CDM 2007 – Good Management
Site Safety
~7m

23. CDM 2007 – Making A Difference
Competence - Individuals
• Stage 1: Membership
of relevant institution
etc. Relevant
academic
qualifications. NVQ
or trade qualifications
& training.
• Stage 2: Past
experience and type
of work undertaken.

24. CDM 2007 – Making A Difference
Competence - Organisations:
• Stage 1: An assessment of the company’s
organisation and arrangements for health and
safety to determine whether these are sufficient
to enable them to carry out the work safely and
without risks to health
• Stage 2: An assessment of the company’s
experience and track record to establish that it is
capable of doing the work; it recognises its
limitations and how these will be overcome and it
appreciates the risks from doing the work and
how these will be tackled

25. CDM 2007 – Making a Difference
Guidance
• CDM 2007 Approved
Code of Practice
• Industry Guidance freely
available to download
from www.cskills.org/ for
each CDM duty holder
• CDM Information on our
construction pages at
www.hse.gov.uk/construc
tion

26. CDM 2007 – Making a Difference
Guidance

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Contact Details:
Veritas Consulting: Health and Safety
Consultants
42 Haslucks Croft
Shirley Solihull
B90 2EQ
Telephone: 0121 249 1281
Email: mailbox@veritas-consulting.co.uk
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