CDM PLUS Service (Combining The Services Of The CDMC With a Complete Safety Monitoring And Advisory Service)
The CDM Plus Service is a new service provided by Crossroad and is designed for clients who want a firmer control of their projects or who do not have the internal resources to control and monitor safety standards on the project.
CDM Plus services:
The scope of this service is very much client driven but it includes the standard legally required services of the CDMC as listed at the bottom of this page and in addition a range of other services including but not limited to:
1. Carrying out type three asbestos surveys and providing asbestos reports and management plans;
2.
Conducting on-site monitoring of the construction phase and the
principal contractor and providing reports and statistical performance
analysis;
3. Monitoring various specific aspects of the project including
a. Contractor Waste and environmental management arrangements;
b. Contractor General
Management arrangements;
c. Designer compliance;
d. Designer DDA compliance;
4. Carrying out accident investigation and providing expert witness services
5. Telephone advisory service 24/7
6. Provision of additonal copies of the safety file
7. Assistance to the principal contractor - management arrangments and the construction phase plan
8. Additional workshops and training for designers, clients and principal contractors on CDM and safety issues
The CDM coordinator shall:
1. Give suitable and sufficient advice and assistance to the client on undertaking the measures he needs to take to comply with these regulations during the project (including, in particular, assisting the client in complying with regulations 9 and 16); that is to make sure the construction does not start unless suitable management arrangements are in place and if necessary a construction phase plan has been sufficiently developed.
2. Ensure that suitable arrangements are made and implemented for the co-ordination of health and safety measures during planning and preparation for the construction phase, including facilitatinga. Co-operation and co-ordination between persons concerned in the project in pursuance of regulations 5 and 6, and b. The application of the general principles of prevention in pursuance of regulation 7; and
3. Liaise with the principal contractor regarding:
a. The contents of the health and safety file,
b. The information which the principal contractor needs to prepare the construction phase plan, and
c. Any design development which may affect planning and management of the construction work.
4. Take all reasonable steps to identify and collect the pre-construction information promptly and ensure that it is provided in a convenient form to-
a. Every person designing the structure, and
b. Every contractor who has been or may be appointed by the client (Including the principal contractor), such of the pre-construction information in his possession as is relevant to each;
5. Take all reasonable steps to ensure that designers comply with their duties under regulations 11 and 18(2);
6. Take all reasonable steps to ensure co-operation between designers and the principal contractor during the construction phase in relation to any design or change to a design;
7. Prepare, where none exists, and otherwise review and update a record (“the health and safety file”) containing information relating to the project which is likely to be needed during any subsequent construction work to ensure the health and safety of any person, including the information provided in pursuance of regulations 17(1), 18(2) and 22(l)(j); and
8. At the end of the construction phase, pass the health and safety file to the client.
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