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Six-month ‘grace period’ for CDM 2015 revealed

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  1. Very tenuous contractual links between PD and PD Consultant.

    Regulation release in April and guidance not available until a further 6 months.

    General public still not aware of domestic client implications.

    A lot of designers in the industry still unsure of what’s going to happen.

    Overall, not the best rolled out set of revised legislation.

  2. In simplicity, what on earth are 1000’s of CDM Coordinators going to do finding out they have been made redundant because of the new regulations by some idiot boffin.
    It is the CDMC who has the knowledge of the regulations, which Designers have rarely even considered.
    The HSE have got this awfully wrong.

  3. The HSE is putting back construction safety management by over a decade in these ridiculous revised regulations, at a time when fee for intervention makes money .. conflict of interest ?

  4. In a crazy political world, where bats and birds seemingly have more protection than humans for designers to be forced to consider, the poor old endangered competent CDMC is now cut adrift.. not a PD unless qualified to do so.. oh no, not a varying consultant title for cowboys to jump on.. backward step HSE !!

  5. We here at GROT HQ, who wrote the original CDM 94 Regs, didn’t get where we are today by not seeing another opening in the marketplace similar to that completely useless role we created then called the ‘Clients Agent’. Absolutely ripped everyone off for fees, for absolutely no benefit whatsoever. So this PD’s PD, who will not be legally liable, will be able to name their price, so we will signing up all the soon-to-be-out-of -work CDMC’s on pre-contract agreements to then sell on next year, at a vast profit to the unprepared and sulking design practices. Marvellous. Super!

  6. Chris Chapman says: “They (the Principal Designer) also have a duty to … make sure the Construction Phase plan is implemented and updated, and that the Principal Contractor is complying with the rules on site”. Where is this requirement stated in the consultative document?

  7. There are a few misleading comments here, the role of the Principal Designer is not a design role and nowhere in the draft regs does it state design qualifications are required and likewise no H&S qualifications needed, guidance documentation and the final draft might clarify this but based on the past performance by the HSE in this redraft and consultation my expectation is that it will be left to the industry to interpret and implement. The removal of the CDMC role as an impartial H&S and CDM advisor is a step back to 1994 regs when I as a designer was expected by the HSE to take on the role of the Planning Supervisor at no cost or increased responsibility – all sounds a little familiar.
    Change is coming and skills will need to be diverted but the CDM legislation will still require these to discharge duty holders responsibilities and competency is a legal requirement in general legislation. Whilst we are all looking at the immediate impact the change in April will have on us as professionals the implications for the construction industry and clients in the small and medium sector is significant this is a sector of the industry that is most vulnerable to poor application of CDM to projects through lack of knowledge and skills required.
    There are big opportunities and increased responsibility with the proposed changes and let’s not forget Fee for Fault for which theconstruction industry is a target sector.
    M Stowell RFaPS, MIIRSM, grad IOSH, MCIOB, MAPM

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