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CONSTRUCTION CONSULTANTS
CHARTERED BUILDING SURVEYORS
North Street
Horsham
West Sussex RH13 5PJ
Tel: 01403 251926
Fax: 01403 259840
enquiries@pwa.uk.com
VAT no: GB 321 9261 77
Health and safety/CDM/planning supervision
The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994 (CDM) deal with the health and safety of building contractors' operatives and any others who may be affected by construction work. All building work is hazardous and the Regulations aim to ensure the good management of health and safety to prevent accidents.
The Regulations define construction work and the CDM Regulations apply to most projects. The Regulations place specific duties to ensure that account is taken of health and safety throughout all stages of a construction project from inception, design and planning through to execution of the works on site, subsequent repair, maintenance and eventually demolition. Failure to comply with the Regulations is a criminal offence.
The Regulations place duties on four principal parties of a construction project:
- The Client, who has to ensure the competency of those employed to design and carry out the construction work and who must appoint a Planning Supervisor as soon as a building project comes into existence. The client must also provide information to designers and contractors in respect of health and safety.
- The Designers, who are to ensure that work is designed in such a way as to reduce risks to health and safety both during construction and during the life of the building.
- The Planning Supervisor, who assumes overall responsibility for co-ordinating the health and safety aspects of the design, specification and construction phase of the project and ensuring that information relating to the works that have been carried out is assembled into a Health and Safety File to be handed to the client at completion.
- The Principal Contractor, who must take full account of health and safety when tendering for works and when carrying out construction operations on site.
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