FULL CDM SERVICE

Crossroad Full CDM services means that we become a full working member of the project team, we attend design team and pre-start meetings and we work to ensure the project risk is reduced by increasing communication between the professionals, coordinating the risk control strategies and ensuring that the right information gets to the right people at the right time. Managing a project with the help of a Crossroad CDMC helps you to know that you are protected and complaint and that the risks are reduced to as low as is “Reasonably Practicable”.

The legal requirements for CDMC’s are listed below:

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 facilitating

• Co-operation and co-ordination between persons concerned in the project in pursuance of regulations 5 and 6, and
• The application of the general principles of prevention in pursuance of regulation 7; and

3. Liaise with the principal contractor regarding:

• The contents of the health and safety file,
• The information which the principal contractor needs to prepare the construction phase plan, and
• Any design development which may affect planning and management of the construction work.

4. The CDM coordinator shall also-

There is usually some concern over exactly what some of the duties listed above will consist of and how “in-depth” a CDMC must go in order to fulfill his duties and assist the client. In the interests of clarity the Approved Code Of Practice (ACOP) for CDM also includes a list of the things that a CDM Coordinator does not have to do as follows:

The CDM Coordinator does not have to:

• Approve the appointment of designers, principal contractors or contractors (although they normally advise clients about competence and resources).
• Approve or check designs, although they have to be satisfied that the design process addresses the need to eliminate hazards and control risks.
• Approve the principal contractor’s construction phase plan, (although they have to be able to advise clients on its adequacy at the start of construction).
• Supervise the principal contractor’s implementation of the construction phase plan - this is the responsibility of the principal contractor; or e. Supervise or monitor construction work - this is the responsibility of the principal contractor.