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The immediate future requires the industry to re-organise itself during the project preparation (design) phases to embrace risk and identify levels of tolerability. At the other end of the process, during the project execution (construction) phase, small and medium size contractors need to embed these regulations into their approach.
The professional institutions and trade associations need to take ownership of the skills, knowledge and experience of their own members, and that of similar professionals, by the introduction of suitable and sufficient training and lifetime learning processes – to move away from the unintended prevalence of competency assessment and card schemes that have developed.
The alternative narrative or numerical method for identifying, analysing and recording risk cannot communicate all the contributory factors to complicated risk pathways in complex designs in the same direct, transparent, and collaborative way.
This process will require a level of integrated professionalism from all construction industry participants, including the Health and Safety Executive inspectors and prosecution officers, public indemnity insurance lawyers, and other judicial members of the legal system. Case law should not be the only means to test whether or not these interpretations of the regulations are adequate.
“TRADE ASSOCIATIONS NEED TO TAKE
OWNERSHIP OF THE SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE OF THEIR MEMBERS BY THE INTRODUCTION OF SUITABLE
TRAINING AND
LIFETIME LEARNING PROCESSES.”
The new CDM landscape should enable design innovation and excellence while also facilitating the inclusion of safe methods of working on every construction project; an outcome to which we can all aspire.
Paul Bussey is the author of CDM 2015: A Practical Guide for Architects and Designers. This guide, from RIBA Publishing, introduces and explains the new CDM Regulations 2015. With full colour diagrams and annotated plans, it details key changes and outlines practical tools to integrate the philosophy of the regulations into day- to-day practice. It is available to buy online from RIBA Bookshops.
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