CDM 2015

What you need to know

Ebenezer Tetteh Senior Construction

Health and Safety Advisor

Introduction

440 staff

10 office locations

Architecture

Building Services Engineers

BIM Management

Civil Engineering

Cost Consultants & Quantity Surveyors

Facilities Management Consultants

Project Managers

Structural Engineering

Integrated Consultancy

Understanding of new CDM 2015

Regulations

Highlight the key changes

How the new Regulations affect you

Why Are We Here Today

Key Objectives

Background

Why the change?

Key Headline changes

Duty holders

Roles and responsibilities of the Client

Roles and responsibilities of the Principal

Contractor

Roles and responsibilities of Principal Designer

Summary

Questions

Presentation Outline

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2007

2015

Background

The HSE’s stated aims for the new Regulations are:

Improve worker protection

Simplify the regulatory package

Improve health & safety standards on small construction sites

Implement the Temporary or Mobile Construction Sites Directive (TMCSD)

Discourage bureaucracy

Meet better regulation principles

Why the Change?

Simplification of the

structure of the

Regulations.

Replacement of the ACoP

with targeted guidance.

Removal of CDMC with that of the

PD.

Removal of explicit

competence requirement.

Application of the Regs to domestic.

Change in threshold of

the key appointments as well as the notification.

So What’s New?

Clients Principal Designer

Designers Principal

Contractors Contractors Workers

Duty Holders

Make suitable arrangements for managing a project,

including making sure:

Other dutyholders are appointed as appropriate

Sufficient time and resources are allocated

Make sure:

Relevant information is prepared and provided to other

dutyholders

The principal designer and principal contractor carry

out their duties

Welfare facilities are provided

Key Duties Placed on the Client

Plan, manage, monitor and coordinate health and safety in the construction phase of a project.

This includes:

liaising with the client and principal designer

preparing the construction phase plan PDF

organising cooperation between contractors and coordinating their work

Make sure:

suitable site inductions are provided

reasonable steps are taken to prevent unauthorised access

workers are consulted and engaged in securing their health and safety

welfare facilities are provided

Key Duties Placed on the PC

The designer’s main duty is to eliminate, reduce or control foreseeable

risks that may arise during construction work,

and

During use and maintenance of the building once built

Key Duties Placed on the Designer

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Key Duties Placed on the Contractor

Their main duty is to:

Plan, manage and monitor the work under their control in a way

that ensures the health and safety of anyone it might affect

(including members of the public).

For projects involving more than one contractor, coordinate their

activities with others.

For a single contractor projects, prepare a Construction Phase

Plan

Plan, manage and monitor the pre-construction phase;

Applying the principles of; Eliminate, Reduce, Inform and

Control [ERI(c)]

Ensuring other designers are complying with their duties

Putting together and disseminating pre-construction

information

Prepare H&S File at the end of the construction phase

Key Duties Placed on the PD

Projects commencing after April 2015 will need to

comply with new Regulations straight away –

appointment of Principal Designer etc.

Existing projects (whether at design or construction

phase) will have a 6 month transition period (October

2015).

Projects completing within transition period can

continue as existing.

Projects extending beyond October 2015 will have to

change to the new Regulations during the 6 month

transition period.

Transition Period

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The PD has a limited role in providing the client

with advice on health and safety

Advice on suitable management arrangement.

Advice on competency.

Ensuring Compliance of the regs by duty holders.

The Down Side

The new regulations is upon us now

There are new appointments the client have to make

Clients now have a number of new responsibilities

There is a new approach to ‘competence’

There is a new notification threshold

All projects must comply with the current regulations

Summary

Do you have the expertise/resources in

house to carry out these additional duties?

Are you fully complying with the new

regulations?

My Question

Questions

Ebenezer Tetteh MSc CMIOSH RMaPS MIIRSM

Senior Construction Health and Safety Advisor

Tel: 01284 760 331

Mob: 07741 266 896

Email: ebenezertetteh@pickeverard.co.uk

Further assistance

Further Reading

http://www.hse.gov.uk/construction/cdm/2015/index.htm

http://www.citb.co.uk/health-safety-and-other-

topics/health-safety/construction-design-and-management-

regulations/

https://www.aps.org.uk/cdm2015

http://www.architecture.com/RIBA/Professionalsupport/CD

Mregulations2015/DownloadExclusiveGuidance.aspx