{"id":95,"date":"2015-03-17T02:46:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T02:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buildingregs4plans.co.uk\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2021-03-16T00:23:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T00:23:47","slug":"cdm-regulations-changes-april-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buildingregs4plans.co.uk\/blog\/cdm-regulations-changes-april-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"CDM Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CDM REGULATIONS<\/strong> 2015<br \/>\nOn 6 April 2015, new CDM Regulations will come into force which will replace the 2007 Regulations. For the first time,\u00a0the CDM regulations will apply to all projects including domestic jobs. Small and medium size construction projects will now have to provide a written\u00a0construction phase plan and manage health and safety.<br \/>\nThe new regulations will also provide greater clarity, so that\u00a0all parties involved in a project will have a better understanding of their roles in ensuring a safe construction site.<br \/>\n<strong>Principle Designer<\/strong><br \/>\nThe CDM co-ordinator role in the previous CDM Regs 2007 has now been replaced with a new role of\u00a0principal designer. This means that\u00a0a member of the design team will be responsible for coordinating the pre-construction phase.<br \/>\nWhere more than one contractor is involved on a project, a principal designer and a principal contractor will need to be appointed.\u00a0 While the 2007 regs saw the CDM coordinator role as primarily a pre-construction role, the new regulations will ensure the principal designer and contractor work together during the design phase and throughout the build to completion. This will provide more consistency and continuity, essential to the management of any successful construction project.<br \/>\n<strong>Client<\/strong><br \/>\nThe client is considered to have the most influence and responsibility as the head of the supply. The client is responsible for budget setting, providing a skilled team as well as ensuring good standards of health and safety throughout the construction project. The new Regulations recognise this and the client&#8217;s duties are now described as \u2018must do\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Competence<\/strong><br \/>\nThe client, principal designer and contractor and any other duty holders must ensure that all persons they appoint have the right\u00a0skills, knowledge, training and experience to fulfil their functions.<br \/>\nFor clarity and ease of assessment this will be divided into the categories of skills, knowledge, training and experience and organisational capability (if applicable).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Health and safety<\/strong><br \/>\nThe client must make sure that a good level of health and safety is in place at the start and maintained throughout the project. The HSE has produced\u00a0draft legal series guidance (L153)\u00a0on the legal requirements for CDM 2015. These aim to reduce the number of accidents on construction sites particularly on smaller projects where there is greater cause for concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CDM REGULATIONS 2015 On 6 April 2015, new CDM Regulations will come into force which will replace the 2007 Regulations. For the first time,\u00a0the CDM regulations will apply to all projects including domestic jobs. Small and medium size construction projects will now have to provide a written\u00a0construction phase plan and manage health and safety. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[86,85,82,87,91,90,54,89,88,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buildingregs4plans.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buildingregs4plans.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buildingregs4plans.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildingregs4plans.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildingregs4plans.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildingregs4plans.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildingregs4plans.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buildingregs4plans.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildingregs4plans.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildingregs4plans.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}