CDM Co-ordinator/CDM Regulations
Duties under the CDM (Construction & Design Management) Regulations:
Services include:
- Give suitable and sufficient advice and assistance to clients in order
to help them comply with their duties, in particular:
- the duty to appoint competent designers and contractors; and
- the duty to ensure that adequate arrangements are in place for managing the project
- notify HSE about the project
- co-ordinate design work, planning and other preparation for construction where relevant to health and safety
- identify and collect the pre-construction information and advise the client if surveys need to be commissioned to fill significant gaps
- promptly provide in a convenient form to those involved with the design of the structure, and to every contractor (including the principle contractor) who may be or has been appointed by the client, such parts of the pre-construction information which are relevant to each
- manage the flow of health and safety information between clients, designers and contractors
- advise the client on the suitability of the initial construction phase plan and the arrangements made to ensure that welfare facilities are on site from the start
- produce or update a relevant, user friendly, health and safety file suitable for future use at the end of the construction phase.