9.2 Scope and application of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 – CDM Flashcards
Processes for risk management, provision of information and the cooperation and coordination of duty holders are managed through clearly defined roles and responsibilities, and the use of two key documents –
the health and safety plan and the health and safety file
Five parties have specific duties under the CDM Regulations and each are allocated specific duties. The duty holders may be organisations rather than individuals, and may also be within the same organisation. The duty holders are:
(1) Client (2) Designer(s) (3) CDM Co-ordinator (CDMC) (4) Principal contractor (5) Contractors (and self-employed persons).
A project is notifiable if the construction phase is:
(a) longer than 30 days (b) involves more than 500 person days of construction work.
Health and safety plan contents
Project description Management of works Arrangements for controlling significant site risks The health and safety file
The health and safety file should include the following information, where this may be relevant to the health and safety of any future construction work.
(a) A brief description of the work carried out. (b) Residual hazards and how they have been dealt with, for example: surveys or other information concerning asbestos, contaminated land, or buried services. (c) Key structural principles incorporated in the design of the structure, for example: bracing, and safe working loads for floors and roofs, particularly where these may preclude placing scaffolding or heavy machinery there. (d) Any hazards associated with the materials used, for example: hazardous substances, lead paint, special coatings which should not be burned off. (e) Information regarding the removal or dismantling of installed plant and equipment, such as lifting arrangements. (f) Health and safety information about equipment provided for cleaning or maintaining the structure. (g) The nature, location and markings of significant services, including fire fighting services. (h) Information and as-built drawings of the structure, its plant and equipment, for example: the means of safe access to and from service voids fire doors and compartmentation.
CDM overview
Part 2: General management duties applying to construction projects Part 3: Additional duties where project is notifiable Part 4: Duties relating to health and safety on construction sites
Part 2: General management duties applying to construction projects
Regulation 4: CompetenceRegulation 5: Co-operation Regulation 6: Co-ordinationRegulation 7: General principles of prevention Regulation 8: Election by clients Regulation 9: Client’s duty in relation to arrangements for managing projects Regulation 10: Client’s duty in relation to information Regulation 11: Duties of designers Regulation 12: Designs prepared or modified outside Great Britain Regulation 13: Duties of contractors
Part 3: Additional duties where project is notifiable
Regulation 14: Appointments by the client where a project is notifiableRegulation 15: Client’s duty in relation to information where a project is notifiable Regulation 16: The client’s duty in relation to the start of the construction phase where a project is notifiable Regulation 17: The client’s duty in relation to the health and safety file Regulation 18: Additional duties of designers Regulation 19: Additional duties of contractors Regulation 20: General duties of CDM co-ordinators (CDMC) Regulation 21: Notification of project by the CDM co-ordinator Regulation 22: Duties of the principal contractor Regulation 23: The principal contractor’s duty in relation to the construction phase plan Regulation 24: The principal contractor’s duty in relation to co-operation and consultation with workers
Part 4: Duties relating to health and safety on construction sites
Regulation 26: Safe places of work Regulation 27: Good order and site security Regulation 28: Stability of structures Regulation 29: Demolition or dismantling Regulation 30: Explosives Regulation 31: Excavations Regulation 32: Cofferdams and caissons Regulation 33: Reports of inspections Regulation 34: Energy distribution installations Regulation 35: Prevention of drowning Regulation 36: Traffic routes Regulation 37: Vehicles Regulation 38: Prevention of risk from fire, etc. Regulation 39: Emergency proceduresRegulation 40: Emergency routes and exits Regulation 41: Fire detection and fire-fighting Regulation 42: Fresh air Regulation 43: Temperature and weather protection Regulation 44: Lighting
A property development company has acquired a former Victorian grain warehouse, abandoned for the past twenty years, to convert into luxury apartments. A Principal Contractor has been appointed for the entire project which involves total removal of the building internals followed by construction of the apartments within the building shell. The demolition work is sub-contracted to a specialist company. (a) Under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 (CDM): (i) outline the specific duties of the Principal Contractor with regard to the demolition phase of the project. Your answer should exclude requirements to check on client’s duties. 7 marks (ii) identify additional duties specific to demolition under CDM. 3 marks (b) Outline the content of the Pre-Construction Information that will be of specific interest to the demolition contractor. 10 marks
(a) (i) CDM Regulations 22 to 24 refer specifically to the duties placed upon the Principal Contractor and include: the development of a construction phase plan, providing the demolition contractor with a copy of the plan relating to demolition, informing them of the minimum time for planning and preparation before beginning work and ensuring that he/she is competent to manage a demolition sub contract planning, managing and monitoring the demolition phase to ensure it is carried out without risks to health and safety ensuring that information relating to their activities is provided to the demolition contractor and ensuring safe working and co-ordination between them and other subcontractors ensuring that welfare facilities suitable for demolition work, such as decontamination units and showers, are provided taking steps to prevent access to the construction site by unauthorised persons identifying the information relating to the demolition activity required by the CDM coordinator for inclusion in the health and safety file ensuring that all contract and sub-contract employees are given site induction and any further information and training they might need in relation to health and safety consulting with employees or their representatives on health and safety issues. (a) (ii) The additional duties in the Regulations specific to demolition are found in Regulation 29. They require that the demolition of a structure should be planned and carried out in such a manner as to prevent danger or where it is not practical to prevent it, to reduce the danger to as low a level as is reasonably practicable. The arrangements for carrying out the demolition work should be recorded in writing before the work begins. (b) Information of interest would include: location of site and buried services details of hazardous and flammable substances stored on the site possible contamination of the ground or drains the location of other hazards such as asbestos the possible presence of anthrax contaminated plaster the presence of any hazardous machinery or equipment that has been left in the building details of weaknesses in the structure, such as fragile roofs or the presence of rot ground conditions such as possible instability and the existence of culverts information on the previous use of the land means of access to the site and traffic routes particularly those for the removal of waste the proximity of neighbours copies of the original building plans if available details of any restrictions on the hours of work.
(a) Outline the duties of designers under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 (CDM 2007). 6 marks (b) Outline examples of the ways in which designers can affect the health and safety performance of a construction project. 4 marks (c) A contractor is to be engaged to demolish a disused factory. Outline examples of the information that the client should provide to the tendering contractors to fulfil their duty under CDM 2007. 10 marks
(a) Under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007, a designer has a duty: to avoid in his designs foreseeable risks to the health and safety of any person carrying out the construction work, involved in future maintenance or cleaning of the structure or using the structure as a workplace the Workplace Regulations contain provisions relating to the design of materials used in the construction of a workplace to provide with his design sufficient information to assist the client, other designers and contractors to comply with their duties under the CDM Regulations to provide information as required for the Health and Safety file and to check that the client is aware of his duties under the Regulations. In the case of a notifiable project, the designer also has a duty to ensure that the required notification has been made. Designers also have a duty to ensure they have the necessary competence for the duties that they undertake. (b) Examples of designers effects include: specifying safer materials from a COSHH perspective reducing manual handling risks by minimising block size promoting safer construction methods, for example, by arranging for windows to be fitted from inside the building ensuring that risks from working at height are reduced to a minimum. (c) Examples of information the client should provide include: the location of buried services and underground tanks details of hazardous and flammable substances stored on the site, and the presence of any remaining hazardous machinery or equipment possible contamination of the ground or drains the location of other hazards such as asbestos details of weaknesses in the structure, such as fragile roofs or the presence of rot ground conditions, such as possible instability and the existence of culverts previous use of the land means of access to the site and traffic routes the proximity of neighbours details of the project coordinator, if the project is notifiable the Health and Safety file, if there is one in existence.
