CDM REGULATIONS - HEALTH & SAFETY COURSES

If you are about to alter or extend a building or structure, thinking of putting up a new one or demolishing an old one, then the Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2007 place a number of specific duties on you. The extent of these duties varies with the type of project that is involved - and in many cases you will need an adviser available to help you deal with these. On larger 'notifable' projects you are required to appoint a CDM Co-ordinator before significant detailed design work begins so they can advise and assist you with your duties.

This 3 DAY COURSE is designed to benefit those with professional and managerial construction experience in understanding what is required of the CDM co-ordinator and how this may be effectively achieved. It will also detail the responsibilities placed on others involved in the design and management of construction projects, including the client. The CDM co-ordinator can be regarded as the ‘client’s friend’, whose responsibilities include assisting the client in discharging his responsibilities.

The course will include workshop sessions during which delegates will be able to carry out syndicate exercises, putting into practice the issues discussed on the course. A comprehensive work book will be provided for use on the course and for future reference. On previous courses delegates have reflected the full spectrum of organisations operating within the construction and allied industries.

A CDM co-ordinator's main duties are to:
• advise and assist the client with their duties
• notify details of the project to HSE
• co-ordinate health and safety aspects of design work and co-operate with others involved with the project
• facilitate good communication between the client, designers and contractors
• liaise with the principal contractor regarding ongoing design work
• identify, collect and pass on pre-construction information; and
• prepare/update the health and safety file

If you are about to alter or extend a building or structure, thinking of putting up a new one or demolishing an old one, then the Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2007 place a number of specific duties on you. The extent of these duties vary with the type of project that is involved.

COURSE BACKGROUND
This 1 DAY COURSE highlights the legal duties of clients, design professionals, CDM co-ordinators and contractors engaged in construction activities. In addition to the legal obligations, the course is intended to bring to attention the moral and sociological aims of the Regulations.

CDM 2007 shows considerable shift in responsibilities and duties to those formally required under CDM 1994. This course will not only give a clear picture to those new to CDM, but will also detail the requirements and changes under the revised Regulations, which will assist those who had a working knowledge of the old Regulations.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
All participants to construction projects, including client representatives, professional designers, contractors and facilities managers.

COURSE BACKGROUND
This 1 DAY COURSE is intended to clarify the role of designers under CDM 2007.

The key messages from the HSE in their CDM 2007 references are:
• If you design or specify building work, then you are a designer with new duties under CDM
• Competent designers eliminate hazards and reduce risks – manage the risk, not the paperwork
• Design for safety and health for those that build, use, maintain and demolish – it’s safer by design
• Tell others about significant risks which remain – give the right information to the right people at the right time

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This course is aimed at people who carry out planning, conceptual, feasibility or detailed design of permanent or temporary works or who dictate or influence design decisions. It will elaborate the approach that designers can adopt and will include short films and pictures to generate discussion on various designer issues. The course is intended to be interactive to enable people to raise and discuss issues related to their own work as designers and the associated implementation of their duties under CDM 2007.

COURSE BACKGROUND
This 1 DAY COURSE will provide an overview of the legal requirements and associated risks of managing all non-residential properties in the private and public sector, and how to go about taking the danger out of buildings.

Feedback

* Yes, it was useful and helped to clarify some area that needed clarity
* A good refresher, a wakeup call in some areas
* The seminar has given us a good overview of the main risks we deal with
* Interactive case studies were an excellent way of engaging with the course

This BRAND NEW 1 DAY COURSE will consider the contracts and contractual arrangements available in the new ICC Family published in 2011, including the development of and changes to the ICE Family, and also look at all the key provisions of the Measurement Version as well as an overview of the Design and Construct, Minor Works, Target and Term Versions.

PLEASE NOTE: There are no dates planned for this as a Public Course. The subject is still available as an in- house course. Please do let us know if you would be interested in attending this course as a public course as it will help us with planning for courses in 2012. Thank you.

This ONE DAY advanced course is designed for those who have previously attended the Planning Supervisor training course provided by the Construction Study Centre, and for those already acting as CDM Co-ordinators who need to brush up on the legislation. This course will act both as refresher training and an update on the changed legislation.

• This course will detail changes in legislation which occurred with the introduction of CDM 2007, including the revocation of the Construction (Health, Safety &Welfare) Regulations 1996 and their incorporation into the revised regulations. It also highlights the shift in emphasis and responsibilities under CDM 2007.
• The revised conditions which effect whether the full scope of CDM 2007 will be applicable to projects will be detailed.

PLEASE NOTE: There are no dates planned for this as a Public Course. The subject is still available as an in- house course. Please do let us know if you would be interested in attending this course as a public course as it will help us with planning for courses in 2012. Thank you.

- You may also be interested in our 'CDM for Designers' course

ARE YOU A DESIGNER?
• The CDM Regs 2007 place a wide application on who may be considered a designer, including those on the periphery of design such as those who specify, alter designs, or decide methods by which a task will be executed; those designing fixed plant; those specifying or selecting incorporated materials; contractors undertaking design; temporary works engineers. Designers may include those who arrange for their employees, or others under their control to prepare designs.

CDM 2007 REQUIRES DESIGNERS TO
• Apply the “Principles of Prevention”, in order to reduce or control risks by
eliminating hazards; reducing or controlling risk; ensuring those who
manage risk are fully aware

THE ACoP FOR CDM 2007 SUGGESTS THAT
• Designers must not produce designs that cannot be constructed, maintained, used or demolished safely
• Health and safety to be weighed alongside other considerations
• When hazards cannot be eliminated, designers should search for ways to reduce risks
• Designers must provide information required

SPEAKERS’ PANEL
• One speaker from the panel of Peter Andrews and Paul Gray will speak at each event