Clients duties under The CDM Regulations 2015

Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 – CDM2015

The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM)are the main set of regulations for managing the health, safety and welfare of construction projects. CDM2015 applies to all building and construction work and includes new build, demolition, refurbishment, extensions, conversions, repair, decoration, work on fixed installations and maintenance Summary of main duties Client.

A client has responsibility to make satisfactory arrangements for safely managing a project. The duties of domestic clients are automatically passed to other duty holders unless they make arrangements. But for commercial clients the duties include:
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• preparing a client brief and pre-construction information
• drawing together a competent project team
• ensuring that a construction phase plan is drawn up by the principal contractor before the construction phase begins
• appointing a principal designer and principal contractor for projects involving more than one contractor and taking reasonable steps to ensure that they comply with their duties
• notifying the HSE of certain larger projects (where construction work is scheduled to last longer than 30 working days and have more than 20 workers working simultaneously at any point, or, exceed 500 person days)
• making sure that welfare facilities are provided throughout the project • for projects with more than one contractor, making sure that a health and safety file is prepared by the principal designer and is then kept and maintained for future use.
• ensuring that sufficient resources and time are allocated.