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CDM 2007 Training
Session 9 – Summary &
Where Next?
Version: September 07
Key points (1)
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Industry and HSE have worked in partnership to
revise and simplify the CDM Regulations and
combine them with the CHSW Regulations
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The new regulations apply if you are involved in
construction and will help you to improve health
and safety in the industry
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Regulations apply to all construction work
Projects for non-domestic clients and lasting
longer than 30 days or involving 500 person
days of work have to be notified to HSE
CDM 2007 Summary – Slide 2
Key points (2)
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Notification triggers appointment of additional
duty holders and duties
– Principal contractor
– CDM co-ordinator
– Construction phase plan
– Health and safety file
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Most duties remain on clients, designers and
contractors regardless of notification
CDM 2007 Summary – Slide 3
Clients – Summary
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Duties on all clients, unless they are a genuine domestic
client
Clients have significant influence over the health and
safety of construction projects
Ensure that all those involved in the construction project
are competent
Ensure the construction team focuses on effective
planning and management of risk - actively drive out
wasteful bureaucracy
Provide the right information to the right people at the right
time
The key advisor to clients for notifiable projects is the CDM
co-ordinator
Clients and CDM co-ordinators are not required to
supervise construction work on site
CDM 2007 Summary – Slide 4
CDM co-ordinators - Summary
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CDM co-ordinator has to be appointed for notifiable projects
Role is to advise the client on health and safety issues during the
design and planning phases
– Advise about selecting competent designers and contractors
– Advise on suitability of the initial construction phase plan
Also need to:
– Ensure HSE is notified of the work
– Help identify and pass on key information
– Co-ordinate health and safety during planning and design work
– Prepare a health and safety file
Paperwork should be risk focussed and project specific
– actively drive out wasteful bureaucracy
Do not have to supervise or monitor work on site
CDM 2007 Summary – Slide 5
Designers - Summary
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If you are design or specify building work, then
you are a designer with duties under CDM (a
wide definition)
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Apply the ERI(C) principles
– ‘Eliminate’ hazards and ‘reduce’ risks during
design and ‘inform’ others about remaining
risks
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Forget detailed design risk assessments –
simply think through the buildability, usability,
maintainability and deconstructability
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Adopt a teamwork approach – if in doubt ask for
advice from contractors and other specialists
CDM 2007 Summary – Slide 6
Principal Contractors - Summary
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Clients should appoint a principal contractor (PC)
for notifiable projects
PC should ensure that the construction phase is
properly planned, managed, monitored and
resourced
PC should produce a construction phase health
and safety plan
PC should ensure all workers and contractors
are competent and provided with suitable
induction, information and training
Co-operate fully with other dutyholders
Manage health and safety on site, not the
paperwork
CDM 2007 Summary – Slide 7
Contractors and workers - Summary
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Not start work until they have obtained
sufficient pre-construction information
form the client or PC
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Plan, manage and monitor their own work
to make sure that workers are safe
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Ensure they and those they appoint are
competent and adequately resourced
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Co-operate and co-ordinate with others
Work in accordance with the construction
phase plan and agreed methods of work
CDM 2007 Summary – Slide 8
Site health & safety - Summary
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Equivalent to the duties under the old
CHSW Regulations
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Applies to all construction sites
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Some changes that need to be applied,
such as more needed on preventing
access to sites and arrangements for
demolition
Duties on every contractor and every
other person who controls construction
work
CDM 2007 Summary – Slide 9
Competence & training - Summary
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Competence involves knowledge of the
tasks / risks and sufficient experience /
ability to carry out the work safely
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CDM requires all organisation and
individuals to be competent for the work
they do
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Competence assessment should be
proportionate to the risk, size and
complexity of the work
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New competence criteria in the ACoP
CDM 2007 Summary – Slide 10
Worker engagement & communication
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Provide the right information to the right
people at the right time
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Effective engagement with workers can
result in better safety standards and
improved productivity
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Co-operation and co-ordination is a key
element of CDM 2007
CDM 2007 Summary – Slide 11
HSE’s expectations on the
construction industry
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A change in attitude is needed to deliver the
much needed improvements in construction
health and safety
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A ‘business as usual’ approach is not acceptable
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Focus on effective planning and managing risk
Industry needs to take ownership of the
management of risk, show leadership and work
in partnership
Ensure people are competent
Reduce bureaucracy and paperwork
CDM 2007 Summary – Slide 12
CDM 2007 – Further Advice
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CDM 2007 Regulations and Approved Code of Practice
HSE Web Site - www.hse.gov.uk/construction/cdm
CDM 2007 Industry Guidance –
www.cskills.org/healthsafety/cdmregulations
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Design issues
– www.dbp.org.uk
– www.dqi.org.uk
– www.cic.org.uk
– www.ciria.org.uk/cpn_intro.htm
CDM 2007 Summary – Slide 13