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Table 17.3 Summary of duties under CDM 2007: Source HSE
All Construction projects Additional Duties for Notifi able projects (Part 2 of the Regulations) (Part 3 of Regulations) Clients
• Check competence and resources
• Appoint CDM co-ordinator*
(excluding
of all appointees
• Appoint principal contractor*
domestic
• Ensure there are suitable management
• Provide pre-construction information to CDM co-ordinator
clients)
arrangements for the project including
• Make sure that the construction phase does not start unless
welfare facilities
there are suitable:
•
Allow
suffi cient time and resources
– welfare facilities, and
for all stages
– construction phase plan in place
• Provide pre-construction information
• Provide information relating to the health and safety fi le to the
to designers ad contractors
CDM co-ordinator
• Retain and provide access to the health and safety fi le
(*There must be a CDM co-ordinator and principal contractor until
the end of the construction phase)
CDM
• Advise and assist the client with his/her duties;
Co-ordinators
•
Notify
HSE;
• Co-ordinate health and safety aspects of design work and
cooperate with others involved in the project;
• Facilitate good communication between client, designers and
contractors;
• Liaise with principal contractor re ongoing design;
• Identify, collect and pass on pre-construction information;
• Prepare/update health and safety fi le.
Designers
• Eliminate hazards and reduce risks
• Check client is aware of duties and CDM co-ordinator has
due to design
been appointed
• Provide information about remaining
• Check HSE has been notifi ed
risks
• Provide any information needed for the health and safety fi le
Principal
• Plan, manage and monitor construction phase in liaison with
contractors
contractors;
• Prepare, develop and implement a written plan and site rules.
(Initial plan completed before the construction phase begins.);
• Give contractors relevant parts of the plan;
• Make sure suitable welfare facilities are provided from the start
and maintained throughout the construction phase;
• Check competence of all their appointees;
• Ensure all workers have site inductions and any further
information and training needed for the work;
• Consult with the workers;
• Liaise with CDM co-ordinator re ongoing design;
• Secure the site.
Contractors
• Plan, manage and monitor own work
• Check client is aware of duties and a CDM co-ordinator has
and that of workers;
been appointed and HSE notifi ed before starting work
• Check competence of all their
• Co-operate with principal contractor in planning and
appointees and workers;
managing work, including reasonable directions and site rules
• Train own employees;
• Provide details to the principal contractor of any contractor
• Provide information to their workers;
whom he engages in connection with carrying out the work;
• Comply with requirements in Part 4 of
• Provide any information needed for the health and safety fi le
the Regulations;
• Inform principal contractor of problems with the plan
• Ensure there are adequate welfare
• Inform principal contractor of reportable accidents, diseases
facilities for their workers.
and dangerous occurrences
Everyone
• Check own competence
• Cooperate with others and coordinate work so as to ensure the health and safety of construction workers and
others who may be affected by the work
• Report obvious risks
• Comply with requirements in schedule 2 (ACOP says 3 but believed a mistake) and Part 4 of the regulations for
any work under their control.
of prevention in planning or carrying out construction
work; and comply with the requirements in Schedule
3, Part 4 of CDM2007 and other regulations for any
work under their control.
To ensure the revised Regulations are proportionate to
risk and the needs of small businesses, and to minimize
bureaucracy, the CDM94 requirement for appointment
of a Planning Supervisor and Principal Contractor and
