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A Practical Approach to Health and Safety
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CDM Project or Not? The CDM Regulations
All construction projects require the effective management of health and safety – do you know the Construction Design and Management Regulations 1994?
The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994 were introduced to impose health and safety management responsibilities at all stages of a project and to extend the health and safety culture from the ‘workface’ of industry to the corporate management structure.
Construction work means the carrying out of any building, civil engineering or engineering construction work but does not include the exploration for an extraction of mineral resources or activities preparatory thereto carried out at a place where such exploration or extraction is carried out.
The Regulations introduced a holistic approach linking all construction parties together in order to account for the health and safety management of all related issues from feasibility, through the intervening stages of design and construction inclusive of operation and maintenance up to the point of project obsolescence and the associated aspects of demolition and dismantling. The CDM Regulations apply to most common building, civil engineering and engineering construction work. You must notify HSE of the site if the construction work is expected to either:
- last longer than 30 days; or
- involve more than 500 person days of construction work;
CDM compliance is now seen as a suitable model for effective health and safety project management, providing a benchmark of good practice, a standard for commercial viability, a public relations platform and an added value concept.
CDM requires:
- A realistic project programme with adequate time allowed for
planning preparation and the work itself.
- Early appointment of key people.
- Competent duty holders with sufficient resources to meet their
legal duties.
- Early identification and reduction of risks.
- Provision of health and safety information from the start of the
design phase, through construction and maintenance to eventual
demolition, so that everyone can discharge their duties effectively.
- Co-operation between duty holders.
- Effort and resources proportionate to the risk and complexity of
the project to be applied to managing health and safety issues.
If you require any more information please contact us at Absolute Health and Safety Solutions Ltd
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