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CDM guidance: ensuring compliance under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations
The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM) 2007 came into force on 6 April 2007, completely replacing the previous CDM 1994 Regulations and the Construction Health, Safety and Welfare Regulations 1996. CDM 2007 applies to all construction work in the UK, comprising ‘construction, alteration, ...
Briefing | 1 Sep 2010
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Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2006: the objectives
The HSE aims to implement the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2006 (the draft Regulations) in Autumn 2006. The draft Regulations are not designed to revolutionise the system but to consolidate the principles of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994 (the CDM Regulations). An early review of the CDM Regulations concluded that, although the philosophy was widely understood and accepted, there was a need to clarify the CDM requirements for duty holders. In light of the construction health and safety summit in February 2001 the Approved Code ...
News | 19 May 2005
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Construction (Design and Management) (CDM) Regulations 2007
The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM) 2007 came into force on 6 April 2007. They completely replaced the previous CDM 1994 Regulations and the Construction Health, Safety and Welfare Regulations 1996. The CDM 2007 Regulations give full effect to Council Directive 92/57/EEC and cover all constru...
Regulation | 16 Jan 2007
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Company and tradesman fined for health and safety breaches
...f worker stepped onto a loose sheet and fell. There was no system in place to prevent the worker from falling or to mitigate the effect of the fall. He fell more than five metres and sustained a fractured hip and a broken elbow. Kelly's Storage Ltd pleaded guilty to breaching regulation 6(2) of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994...
Case | 12 Dec 2008
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Working at height: duties of contractors and clients
...ty Consultants and Management Co. Ltd were each fined £1,500 plus costs of £315. Allinson pleaded guilty to a charge under Regulation 6(3) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005. Lakeland Property Consultants — the client for the work — pleaded guilty to a charge under Regulation 10 of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994 (CDM) for failing to ensure a health and safety plan was in place that took account of all the risks involved in the construction work, such as work at height, prior to work starting on site. In April, new CDM Regulations are due to come into force, which will make clients' duties more explicit....
News | 28 Feb 2007
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HSE welcomes electrical and mechanical contractors competency initiative
...s look for evidence of contractors' basic health and safety credentials. Sometimes contractors are required to prove these competencies for each job they tender for. To address this issue the HSE commissioned a study, "Developing guidelines for the selection of designers and contractors under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994, Research Report 422." Based on the report's recommendations, the HSE initiated a consultation exercise with industry bodies, including the Major Contractors' Group and the Specialist Engineering Contractors' Group, to develop a set of core criteria that should be used to assess contractors. Comm...
News | 26 Sep 2006
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CDM confusion – when will the regulations come into force?
... CDM regulations are still estimated to come into force in October 2006. “They are currently in the consultation process. If the consultation process takes longer than expected, the new regulations could come into force in 2007 rather than in 2006.” The draft regulations consolidate the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994 (CDM) and the Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996 (CHSW), and revise the supporting guidance. The objective of the draft Regulations is to increase the focus on effective planning and management of construction projects, specifically to improve risk management by ensuring r...
News | 27 Jan 2006
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HSC seeks to clarify CDM Regulations
Yesterday, the HSC began a four-month online consultation on its proposals to revise and consolidate the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994 (CDM) and the Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996 (CHSW), and revise the supporting guidance. The proposals were developed in close partnership with construction industry stakeholders. They address issues highlighted in responses to the 2002 Discussion Document, Revitalisi...
News | 1 Apr 2005
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HSE puts designers' duties to address falls from height to the test
HSE construction inspectors will again 'Take a Designer to Site' during April and May 2005, continuing the campaign to reduce the number of incidents involving falls from height in the construction industry. Construction inspectors will meet designers and planning supervisors on a range of construction sites. De...
News | 12 Apr 2005
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No changes to the CDM Regulations 2007, government announces
The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 (CDM 2007) will not be annulled or amended, after much parliamentary debate over the potential burden placed on companies with no prior experience of construction. The new Regulations actually became law in April 2007, but an Early Day Motion tabled by D...
News | 14 May 2007
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Health and Safety: Designers Should Do More, says HSE
Eliminating or reducing risk to construction workers through design is be the subject of a forthcoming HSE campaign: practical guides, research reports, new website material and a series of awareness days and inspection activities. Each year approximately 80 construction workers die and thousands more sustain major injuries due to workplac...
News | 21 Nov 2003
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CDM: Designers Unaware of their Duties
Results of the HSE designer initiative have revealed that many designers are unaware of their duties under Regulation 13 of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994 (CDM). In about one third of cases the designers demonstrated little or no understanding of their responsibilities. A significant number had failed to consider the practical detail of how the structure they had designed could be safely constructed, maintained and cleaned. Not only did designe...
News | 6 May 2003
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CDM, Asbestos and Competency Issues Raised in Court Case
...ied out on the kiln showed that asbestos was present. Dunton Demolition pleaded guilty to four charges, two under The Control of Asbestos Regulations 1987, including failure to prevent, or reduce to the lowest level reasonably practicable, exposure of its employees to asbestos, and two under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994, including failure to prepare an adequate safety plan of the construction phase arrangements of the project. Costs of £1,102 were awarded against them. Dunton Demolition said they have cooperated with the HSE and had a good health and safety record. The client, Morris Homes also pleaded guilty ...
Case | 16 Jan 2003
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Property development firm fined for five health and safety offences
A property development company which carried out construction work on a building without taking the required health and safety measures has been fined £3,000. Jomast Developments Ltd pleaded guilty at Teesside Magistrates Court to five offences in connection with work on a Victorian three-storey commercial building in Stockton, in June last year. The com...
Case | 27 Mar 2007
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Construction industry leads on CDM guidance
An industry led steering group is leading on creating guidance documents to support the revised Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM), due to come into force in April 2007. The group has been set up by the Health and Safety Commission's Construction Industry Advisory Committee (CONIAC). The steering group has been appointed by CONIAC and its members are from a wide cross section of the ...
News | 16 Aug 2006
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Will new CDM regulations place a health and safety burden on businesses?
...a rethink to planned regulations that it claims would see businesses forced to carry the health and safety burden whenever they contracted work on their buildings. The FPB claims that the Health and Safety Commission (HSC) is seeking to "pass the buck" onto businesses under planned changes to the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM). As Workplace Law previously reported, the CDM Regulations were meant to be coming into force 1 October. However, in January a representative from the HSE told Workplace Law that while it had been hoped that the Regulations would come into force in 2006 a...
News | 6 Jul 2006
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Revised ACoP and Guidance for CDM
The HSE has issued a revised Approved Code of Practice (ACoP) and guidance on the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994 (CDM).'Managing Health and Safety in Construction' has been published after many people in the industry declared that they did not fully understand their legal obligations. The regulations remain unchanged, but once the ACoP comes into force on 1 February of next year, HSE plans to begin a three-ye...
News | 10 Dec 2001
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New CDM regulations are delayed
At the end of January Workplace Law highlighted the fact that there was confusion over when the new revised Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM) would come into force. It has now been officially announced that the Regulations will not be implemented till Spring 2007. In January when the HSE released its latest statement of forthcoming regulations for 2006 the CDM regulations were still listed as co...
News | 1 Mar 2006
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Firm prosecuted for 10 breaches of construction safety law
...trading as Cowlgrove Developers Ltd, was fined a total of £16,000 and ordered to pay costs of £4,000 at Bedford Magistrates' Court after admitting ten breaches of health and safety regulations. The prosecution followed an investigation into unsafe ladder access and unsafe scaffolding during the construction of a three-storey block of flats on a brownfield site in Linden Road, Bedford. Cowlgrove Ltd was the client and principal contractor involved and had instructed roofing sub-contractor H. McIntyre & Sons Ltd, of Luton, to install the roof of a bay window. On 17 March 2005, a HSE inspector observed...
Case | 2 Nov 2005
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60% rise in construction fatalities
...2070 prohibition notices (a prohibition notice can stop some or all work at a construction site) and there were 537 convictions relating to construction work. Inspectors are currently giving particular attention to:- management - eliminating hazards and controlling risks through compliance with the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994, for example, by eliminating the use of fragile roof lights in new and refurbished buildings;- scaffolding - controlling risks to scaffolders and to the public and other workers from falling material and scaffold collapses;- transport - segregating people from vehicles and plant, and eliminating re...
News | 14 Nov 2000
