cdm regulations feature


What does a CDMC do? To advise and assist the Client and to see


that arrangements are implemented for co-operation and co-ordination amongst designers on construction related health and safety (which could include asbestos specialists). Te advice to the client should include advice on the competency (in health and safety terms) of designers and contractors and in particular, the arrangements for managing health and safety during the construction phase (so they also provide a review for the Client of the Principal Contractor’s Construction Phase Plan (CPP)). Liaison over design change having a


significant impact on the Construction Phase Plan should continue with the Principal Contractor during the construction phase. (Because design changes nearly always happen during the construction phase too!)


I am a member of ARCA, how can a CDMC help me?


w Being a focus for the understanding and


co-ordination of significant project hazards like asbestos. w By knowing “what a competent removal


contractor” looks like when advising the Client or design team.


w By promoting the need for reasonable time


and other resources for planning and managing asbestos removal or encapsulation work. w By seeking clear arrangements are in place


for project health and safety management in the Principal Contractor’s CPP. (On some jobs you could be the Principal Contractor!)


I am a member of ATaC, how can a CDMC help me?


w Quite probably by working with you,


and treating you as a CDM Designer if you are specifying, controlling or making other changes associated with asbestos as a significant project risk. Te CDM ACoP states that the three types of significant risk are:- · A project element or feature that is unusual


· A project element or feature that is difficult to manage or


· A project element or feature that is beyond what should be in the capabilities of a competent contractor. w By knowing “what a competent asbestos


surveyor or consultant” looks like when advising the Client or design team. w Being a focus for the understanding and


co-ordination of significant project hazards like asbestos.


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w Working with you on health or safety


critical “pre-construction information” like survey results or similar information for the Health and Safety File like photographs or clearance certificates. w Te relationship with other project


elements and their co-ordination in safety terms. (So you may have an asbestos project that also has other significant risks associated with it. Examples could be chemically contaminated ACM ducting, debris in a confined space or complex de-lagging at high level.)


Te Association for Project Safety (APS)


exists to promote best practice in construction health and safety risk management. It is a membership body, covering the whole of the UK and is developing links and benefits with ATaC in recognition of the important overlap in the work we both do.


If you would like to more about what we are doing to work together please contact Ian Stone at ATaC or Greg Brown, APS’s Head of Membership and Practice at greg@aps.org.uk .


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