LINDUM CONSTRUCTION
FOOD CONSTRUCTION SEMINAR
Construction (Design & Management)
Regulations 2007
Jim Armstrong
MCIAT, RMaPS
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 Overview – Slide 13
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….
CDM 2007 Overview – Slide 12
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….
CDM 2007 Clients – Slide 9
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….
CDM 2007 Clients – Slide 10
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….
CDM 2007 Clients – Slide 11
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 2007 Clients – Slide 14
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….
CDM 2007 CDM co-ordinator – Slide 5
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 2007 CDM co-ordinator – Slide 6
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 ….
CDM 2007 CDM co-ordinator – Slide 7
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 ….
CDM 2007 Designers – Slide 5
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
•
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….
Provide information with the design to assist clients, other
designers, & contractors
CDM 2007 Designers – Slide 7
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….
CDM 2007 Designers – Slide 17
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….
CDM 2007 Designers – Slide 15
Additional duties for
notifiable projects
• Check that the client has appointed a CDM coordinator
• 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 ….
CDM 2007 Designers – Slide 18
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….
CDM 2007 Summary – Slide 5
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….
CDM 2007 Summary – Slide 6
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….
CDM 2007 Summary – Slide 2
Thank you for your time
Jim Armstrong