Do you need a CDM Consultant for your Project?

How we’ll help you the Client

Ultimately the Duty Holder responsibilities remain with you the Client, but our CDM Consultants are here to help you.

We offer professional CDM consulting services to assist you through the whole process, guiding you and giving you the confidence that your project will be completed safely and in accordance with the current regulations.

What will our CDM Consultants provide for your project?

• Advise on the preparation of a client’s brief for your project.
• Advice on taking appropriate measures to manage any project in an efficient manner, including allocating ample resources and time. [Regulation 4(1)]
• Advise on making suitable arrangements to ensure that:

• • The construction project is executed in a reasonably practicable manner, without posing serious health and safety risks to any person working on or not on the project; and

  • The key project requirements outlined in Schedule 2 of the Regulations are applicable for any person executing the construction project. [Regulation 4(2)]
• Advice on ensuring that the project management measures are strictly followed and thoroughly reviewed at every stage of execution. [Regulation 4(3)]
• Advice on the nature of pre-construction specifications to be provided by the client at the earliest to be of utmost practicability to the contractor and designer hired, or  to be regarded for hiring to handle the project. [Regulation 4(4)]
• Advise on ensuring that:
  • Prior to commencing the construction phase, it is crucial to design the right plan for the phase. The drawing should be done by the contractor appointed for the same, or if it is a team of contractors, the principal contractor is responsible for the job; and
  • The principal designer prepares a health and safety file for the project during the pre-construction phase which:
• Complies to the key requirements as mentioned in Regulation 12(5)
• Is continuously revised to keep abreast with and include the latest information; and
• Is made accessible to be inspected by a third-party who require the design to abide with key legal requirements. [Regulation 4(5)
• Advise on the suitability or otherwise of the construction phase plan and the provision of the proposed welfare facilities prior to construction work commencing on site.
• Advise on what reasonable steps the client should take to ensure that:

• • The principal designer complies with any other principal designer duties in Regulations 11 and 12; and
  • The principal contractor complies with any other principal contractor duties in Regulation 12 to 14. [Regulation 4(6)]
• Advise on the explanation to be given to anyone to whom the client disposes of its interest in the project when handing over the health and safety file.
• When more than one contractor is involved, or if it is reasonably foreseeable that more than one contractor will be working on a project at any time, advise the client on appointing in writing:
• • A designer with control over the pre-construction phase as the principal designer; and
  • A contractor as principal contractor.

As soon as is practicable, and in any event before the construction phase begins. [Regulation 5(1) and (2)]

What else can our CDM Consultants help “The Client” with?

Our CDM consulting services also include:

• Provide advice to the client on the health and safety skills, knowledge, experience, organisational capacity and resources of proposed designers prior to arrangements being made for design work to begin.
• Provide advice to the client on the health and safety skills, knowledge, experience, organisational capacity and resources of proposed contractors before an approved list of tenderers is agreed; or
• Provide advice to the client on the health and safety skills, knowledge, experience, organisational capacity and resources of the lowest or preferred tendering/negotiating prospective principal contractor before arrangements are made for the work to be carried out or managed.

How we’ll help you the Principal Designer

There are many duties laid on the Principal Designer by the regulations and other related requirements. Our CDM Consultants are here to assist you as the Principal Designer through the whole process, guiding you and giving you confidence that the project will be completed safely and in accordance with the current regulations.

What will our CDM Consultants provide you as Principal Designer?

• Extend cooperation and facilitate collaboration with other people working on or related to the project in the same construction site or in an adjoining one, and to the level required to aid any one to fulfil a specific function or duty. [Regulation 8(4)]
• Monitor and provide information to the Principal Designer pertaining to any aspect the advisor knows with regard to the construction project, and which is likely to affect their own health and safety as well as of others. [Regulation 8(5)]
• Keep updated about any new instruction or information at the earliest possible as in an easy-to-comprehend manner. [Regulation 8(6)]
• Our CDM consultants are capable of planning, executing and monitoring the pre-construction stage; organise the key aspects pertaining to health and safety during this phase; and ensure that the construction project is executed in a responsible manner so as not to cause any health and safety issues to others to an extent as practicable. [Regulation 11(1)]
• When determining the project design, organisational aspects and technical issues to plan whether diverse stages and items of work shall occur simultaneously or one by one; and

  • assessing the total time necessary to execute each work or stages,

  • the consultants will consider the core theories of prevention and, in cases where it is pertinent, they will take into account the plan content of the construction stage or any file related to health and safety. [Regulation 11(2)]

• Identify control and eliminate the potential risks that can occur to the health and safety of another person:

  1. executing or deemed to be affected by the construction project;

  2. responsible to clean and maintain the structure; or

  3. utilising the construction structure as their workplace. [Regulation 11(3)]

• Ascertain that all designers involved in the project abide by their duties and responsibilities as mentioned in Regulation 9. [Regulation 11(4)]

• Cooperate with and determine that everyone operating in the pre-construction stage work collaboratively with the Principal Designer, clients and each other. [Regulation 11(5)]

• Guide the client to provide clear and comprehensible information related to the pre-construction phase as necessary under the Regulation 4(4); and

• As far as it is under the control of the advisor, facilitate appropriate pre-construction details in a convenient and quick manner to every Contractor and Designer hired, or to be hired to work on the project. [Regulation 11(6)]

• Build strong liaison with the Principal Contractor to decide upon the duration of appointment of the Principal Designer and provide relevant information to the Principal Contractor regarding effective planning, executing and evaluating the construction stage and facilitate organisation of health and safety measures to be taken during this phase. [Regulation 11(7)]

• Provide guidance to the Principal Contractor pertaining to designing the plan for the construction phase with the aid of valuable information that the Principal Designer or the advisor holds relevant to create the plan. This should also include pre-construction details gathered from the client or any other information collected from designers as per the Regulation 9(3)(b). [Regulation 12(3)]

• In the pre-construction stage, develop a file for assessing health and safety issues relevant to the key features of the project. This must include data pertaining to the project which tend to be useful for any successive project, ensuring health and safety of anyone. [Regulation 12(5)]

• Ascertain that the health and safety documentation is reviewed, revised and updated regularly and appropriately till the time the advisor’s appointment to take charge of the project and controlling changes comes to an end. [Regulation 12(6)]

• In case the appointment duration of the Principal Designer ends before the project finishes, handover the health and safety documentation to the Principal Contractor. [Regulation 12(8)]

• Provide a single copy of the health and safety documentation collected from the Principal Contractor to the client when the project concludes. [Regulation 12(10)]

What else can our CDM Consultants help the Principal Designer with?

• Provide expert guidance to the Principal Designer pertaining to the required health and safety knowledge, skills, resources, experience and organisational capability of anticipated Designers before making necessary arrangements to commence the design phase.

• Guide the Principal Designer on the required health and safety knowledge, skills, resources, experience and organisational capability of anticipated Contractors before agreeing upon the final list of tenderers.

• Assist the Principal Designer on the necessary health and safety knowledge, skills, resources, experience and organisational capability required for the preferred or lowest negotiating/tendering anticipated Principal Contractor before organising how the work needs to be executed and managed.

• Put on hold the commencement of the construction stage until the Principal Contractor provides appropriate plan for the construction phase and ensures that adequate protection will be extended to all people during the work.

• Prepare additional health and safety documentation copies to be handy for all.

• Create different abstracts of the health and safety document and provide copies to tenants of the client. The content of such abstracts need to be decided upon after consulting the legal advisors of the client.

• Maintain records of the health and safety document.

• Regularly update the document to include data from various non-notifiable jobs to structures and premises.

• Convert health and safety files on other projects to match the client’s current electronic format

How we’ll help you the Principal Contractor.

There are many duties laid on the Principal Contractor by the regulations and other related requirements. Our CDM Consultants are here to assist you as the Principal Contractor through the whole process, guiding you and giving you confidence that the project will be completed safely and in accordance with the current regulations.

What will our CDM Consultants provide for your project?

• Receive essential pre-construction information from the principal designer.
• Produce a construction phase plan and revise as necessary during the project period.
• Advise on making suitable arrangements to ensure that:
• • The construction work can be carried out, so far as is reasonably practicable, without risks to the health and safety of any person affected by the project; and
  • The facilities required by Schedule 2 of the Regulations are provided in respect of any person carrying out construction work. [Regulation 4(2)]

• Advise on what reasonable steps the principal contractor should take to ensure that:
• • The principal contractor complies with any other principal contractor duties in Regulation 12 to 14 regarding the construction phase plan, health and safety file, health and safety during the construction phase and consultation and engagement with workers.

• Liaise with the principal designer on all CDM and health & safety matters until the project completes or the principal designer’s appointment ceases.

What else can our CDM Consultants help the Principal Contractor with?

• Produce task-specific risk assessments and method statements for the principal contractor.
• Review and advise on health and safety suitability of risk assessments and method statements received from sub-contractors.