CDM Co-ordinator Service

If you are about to embark on a construction project, including alteration, extension or demolition of an existing structure then the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 place a number of specific duties on you.

On commercial projects which will last 30 days or 500 person days or more; the client is required to appoint an adviser entitled "CDM Co-ordinator" before significant detailed design work starts so that they can advise and assist on the client's duties.

A client is an organisation or individual for whom a construction project is carried out.

Clients are responsible for appointing the CDM Coordinator

Those clients without construction expertise should rely on the CDM co-ordinator's advice on how best to meet their duties.

The CDM Coordinator Service can include

• The provision of suitable and sufficient advice and assistance to the client to assist them with their duties, in particular:
  1. (i) the duty to appoint competent designers and contractors; and
  2. (ii) the duty to ensure that adequate arrangements are in place for managing the project;
• Project notification to the HSE
• Co-ordination of design work, planning and other preparation for construction where relevant to health and safety;
• Identification and collection of the pre-construction information; advice to the client if surveys need to be commissioned to fill significant gaps;
• Prompt provision in a convenient form, of the preconstruction information relevant to each party involved with the design of the structure; and to every contractor (including the principal contractor) who may be or has been appointed by the client;
• The management of the flow of health and safety information between clients, designers and contractors;
• Advice to the client on the suitability of the initial construction phase Health & Safety plan and the arrangements made to ensure that welfare facilities are on site from the start;
• The production of a relevant, user friendly, health and safety file suitable for future use at the end of the construction phase.

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