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Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2007

Jim Armstrong MCIAT, RMaPS

LINDUM CONSTRUCTIONFOOD CONSTRUCTION SEMINAR

INTRODUCTION

Structure of CDM 2007

• Five parts

– Part 1: Introduction

– Part 2: General management duties applying to all construction projects

– Part 3: Additional duties where projects are notifiable

– Part 4: Worksite health and safety requirements

– Part 5: General

• Supported by a CDM 2007 Approved Code of Practice (ACoP) and Industry Guidance ....

CDM 2007 Overview – Slide 11

Trigger for Notification

• Notifiable construction work under CDM 2007 are construction projects with a:

– Non-domestic client

and involve

– more than 30 days of Construction work

or

– involving more than 500 person days of Construction work ….


CDM 2007 – key points

• Regulations apply to all construction work

• Notification triggers appointment of additional duty holders and duties– Appointment of a Principal contractor (PC)– Appointment of a CDM co-ordinator– Notification to HSE (F10 Form)– Creation of a Construction phase plan– Creation of a Health and safety file

• Most duties remain on clients, designers & contractors regardless of notification….


CLIENTS

Role of clients under CDM 2007 (1)

• CDM 2007 recognises the influence that clients can have over the health and safety of their project and therefore makes them accountable for the impact they have on health and safety on their projects.

• The Regulations do not, in the main, confer new duties on the client– make explicit existing duties under the old CDM

regulations as well as MHSW and HSWA– clarify how those duties should be exercised on

their construction project….

CDM 2007 Clients – Slide 7

Duties on clients – all projects (1)

• Check competence and resources of those they appoint (new ACOP competence criteria)

• Allow sufficient time and resources

• Provide key information to designers and contractors (existing H&S Files) - it is for the clients to arrange for any gaps in information to be filled e.g. commissioning an asbestos survey

• Ensure that all those involved in the work co-operate and co-ordinate their activities

• The focus should be on establishing a competent project team early on which fosters a culture of co-operation and integration….


Duties on clients – all projects (2)

• Ensure suitable management arrangements are in place

– Type and level of checks needed depends on the work being undertaken and the risks involved

• Ensure adequate welfare facilities are on site

• Ensure workplaces are designed correctly

– a design for a workplace should comply with Workplace (Health, Safety & Welfare) Regulations 1992….


Duties on clients – notifiable projects (1)

• Appoint a competent CDM co-ordinator

• Provide CDM co-ordinator with key information

• Appoint a competent principal contractor

• Ensure the construction phase does not start unless there is

– A Construction phase (health and safety) plan

– And Suitable welfare facilities are in place

• Retain and provide access to the health and safety file and revise it with any new information….


Duties on clients – Management arrangements

• Management arrangements should be proportionate to the complexity of the project and risks involved

• As will the type and level of checks needed by the client

• Clients and CDM co-ordinators are not required to audit or supervise work on site

• For notifiable projects, the client should be able to rely on a competent CDM co-ordinator

Manage the risk, not the paperwork ….


CDM CO-ORDINATOR

Who is the CDM co-ordinator?

• CDM 2007 creates the new role of CDM co-ordinator

• Role is to advise the client on health and safety issues during the design and planning phases of construction work

• Must be appointed for notifiable projects

• The client / CDM co-ordinator relationship is key to this revision of CDM

CDM 2007 CDM co-ordinator – Slide 2

Duties of the CDM co-ordinator

• CDM co-ordinators must give suitable and sufficient advice to clients in order to help the Client comply with their duties

• They should:

– Help identify what information will be needed by designers and contractors

– Co-ordinate the arrangements for health and safety planning of design work

– If required, advise the client about selecting competent designers and contractors….


Duties of the CDM co-ordinator (continued)

– Ensure that HSE is notified of the project

– Advise on the suitability of the initial construction phase plan

– Prepare a health and safety file (information for the client to enable future cleaning, maintenance and alterations to be carried out safely) ….


CDM co-ordinator – Limitations on the role

• CDM co-ordinators do NOT have to

– Approve the appointment of other duty holders, although they can give advice

– Approve or check designs, just be satisfied that risk reduction is addressed

– Approve or supervise the principal contractor’s construction phase plan

– Supervise or monitor work on site ….


DESIGNERS

Who are designers?

• ‘Designer’ has a wide definition under CDM 2007

• If you design or specify building work, then you are a designer with duties under CDM

• Duties apply to all projects, including non-notifiable and domestic

• It includes people who prepare – Drawings– Design details, analysis and calculations – Specification and Bills of Quantities

• The design could be on paper, computer or verbal….

CDM 2007 Designers – Slide 2

Duties on designers (1)

• Designers have to:– Ensure clients are aware of their duties– Make sure they (the designer) are competent for the work

they do– Co-ordinate their work with others as necessary to

manage risk – Co-operate with CDM co-ordinator and others– Gather relevant information from the Client/CDM-C– Provide information for the health and safety file or other

records ….


Duties on designers (2)

Designers must also:

• Take account of the Workplace (Health, Safety & Welfare) Regulations 1992 when designing a workplace structure

• Designers have to avoid foreseeable risks SFAIRP

• Provide information with the design to assist clients, other designers, & contractors

• In particular – inform others of significant or unusual/ “not obvious” residual risks

• CDM 2007 does not require “zero risk” designs, nor should it stifle creativity….


Designers – design review

• A process of design review will help to ensure buildability, usability, & maintainability

• Designers should involve the contractor when reviewing buildability

• Designers should involve the client (or building operators) when reviewing usability and maintainability

• Involve the CDM co-ordinator if project is notifiable….


Designers - Provision of Information

• Provide the right information to the right people at the right time

• How to inform

– Method of informing is optional

– Notes on drawings (stays with the detail)

– Written information with the design (can be separated)

– Suggested sequence of construction (only if not obvious)

• If in doubt – discuss it….CDM 2007 Designers – Slide 13

Designers – Paperwork and Records

• Designers eliminate hazards and reduce risks – manage the risk, not paperwork.

• Design risk assessments (DRAs) are seen by many as unhelpful and should be discouraged

• CDM 2007 does not require designers to produce copious amounts of paperwork detailing generic hazards and risks

• Designers under CDM 2007 are not legally required to keep records of the design process….


Additional duties for notifiable projects

• Check that the client has appointed a CDM co-ordinator

• Only ‘initial’ design work is permitted until a CDM co-ordinator has been appointed

• Co-operate with the CDM co-ordinator, principal contractors and with other designers or contractors so all can conform with their CDM duties

• Provide relevant information for the health and safety file ….


SUMMARY

Clients – Summary

• Duties on all construction clients, unless they are a genuine domestic client

• Clients have significant influence over the health and safety of construction projects

• The key advisor to the client for notifiable projects is the CDM co-ordinator

• Provide the right information to the right people at the right time

• Ensure that all those involved in the construction project are competent

• Ensure the construction team focuses on effective planning and management of risk….

CDM 2007 Summary – Slide 4

CDM co-ordinators - Summary

• CDM co-ordinator must be appointed for notifiable projects• Role is to advise the client on health and safety issues during

the design and planning phases, if required, they can also– Advise about selecting competent designers and

contractors

• Advise on suitability of the initial construction phase plan• They also need to:

– Ensure HSE is notified of the work and any significant changes to the project scope

– Help identify and pass on key information to all– Co-ordinate health and safety during planning and design

work– Ensure a suitable H&S File is handed over to Client….


Designers - Summary

• If you design or specify building work, then you are a designer with duties under CDM (a wide definition)

• Apply the ERI(C) principles– ‘Eliminate’ hazards and ‘reduce’ risks during

design and ‘inform’ others about remaining risks

• Forget detailed design risk assessments – simply think through the buildability, usability, maintainability and deconstructability….


Closing Remarks

• Industry and HSE have worked in partnership to revise and simplify the CDM Regulations and combine them with the CHSW Regulations

• Proof of this collaboration can be seen in the wealth of H&S and CDM related guidance available this time around. Most of which is free to download from the web….


Thank you for your time

Jim Armstrong

construction (design & management) regulations 2007 jim armstrong mciat, rmaps lindum...

Documents

overview slide

construction projects

introduction slide

structure of cdm

cdm coordinator notification

construction phase health

competent cdm coordinator

old cdm regulations