CDM Flashcards
What does CDM stand for
Construction (design and management) regulations
What are the key principles of the CDM regulations 2015
To ensure clients, designers, contractors and others consider the health and safety of those constructing, maintaining and demolishing the works.
Places statutory duties on clients, the principle designer, designers and contractors to plan, manage and coordinate health & safety throughout the project.
Improves safety on site through design, planning and management.
Who are the key duty holders under the CDM regs 2015?
Client
Principle designer
Principle contractor
Designers
Contractors
Workers
Under CDM 2015, who are commercial clients?
Organisations or individuals for whom a construction project is carried out that is done as part of a business
Under CDM 2015, who are domestic clients?
People who have construction work carried out on their own home that is not part of a business
Under CDM, who must make suitable arrangements for managing a project, including allocation for sufficient time and other resources?
Client
Who are designers under CDM 2015
Orgs or individuals who, as part of a business, prepare or modify designs for a building product or system relating to construction work.
What is the role of the principle designer in the CDM regs 2015?
Plan, manage, monitor and coordinate health and safety in the pre construction phase.
Help and advise the client in bringing together pre construction information.
Provide information to designers and contractors to carry out their duties.
Work with other designers to eliminate foreseeable health and safety risks, that includes the construction phase and when the building is in use.
Mitigate risks that cannot be eliminated.
What is the role of the principle contractor in the CDM regs 2015?
Plan, manage, monitor and coordinate health and safety in the construction phase.
Take account of health and safety risks to everyone affected by the work (including members of the public) and implement control measures to reduce or eliminate risk.
Ensure suitable welfare facilities are provided and maintained.
Prepare a written construction construction phase plan before construction phase begins, implement it and regularly review so it remains fit for purpose
What is a F10 notification?
A form that notifies the HSE of a relevant construction project
When is a project notifiable to the HSE unde rCDM?
When it exceeds 30 days with more than 20 workers at any one time or
the project lasts more than 500 person days
Who issues the F10
Clients responsibility
What is the pre-construction information pack?
A document which provides the information already in the clients possession, or which is reasonably obtainable to relevant CDM duty holders, such as the designer or principle contractor.
The principle contractor should then use the information to assist them to discharge their duties in relation to the construction phase plan.
What is the Health and Safety file?
A specific requirement within CDM
It is to ensure that those who may carry out future works on a structure or site are made aware of the significant health and safety risks that may be encountered.
This then allows them to plan, derive safe systems of work and manage their works without risk to their own health and safety and those who may be affected by their activities.
Who is responsible for producing the health and safety file?
All duty holders including the client, principle designer, designers, principle contractor and contractors are responsible for providing relevant information for the health and safety file.
The responsibility for coordinating the file lies with the principle designer.
