Construction



The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015) cover the management of health, safety and welfare when carrying out construction projects. The regulations set out a range of duty holders. These are clients, domestic clients, designers, principal designers, principal contractors, contractors and workers.



The regulations set out requirements for duty holders to:


• manage the risks by applying the general principles of prevention;



• appoint the right people and organisations at the right time;



• make sure everyone has the information, instruction, training and supervision they need to carry out their jobs in a way that secures health and safety;



• cooperate and communicate with each other and coordinate their work; and



• consult workers and engage with them to promote and develop effective measures to secure health, safety and welfare.



In addition, the regulations set out general requirements for all construction sites in relation to:



• safe access and egress;



• good order and security;



• stability of structures;



• demolition and dismantling;



• explosives;



• excavations;



• cofferdams and caissons;



• inspection reports;



• energy distribution installations;



• prevention of drowning;



• traffic routes;



• vehicles;



• prevention of risk from fire, flooding or asphyxiation;



• emergency procedures;



• emergency routes and exits;



• fire detection and fire-fighting;



• fresh air;



• temperature and weather protection; and



• lighting.



Minimum welfare facilities for construction sites with regard to:



• sanitary conveniences;



• washing facilities;



• drinking water;



• changing rooms and lockers; and



• facilities for rest.



• work involving particular risks:



• burial, engulfment or falling from height;



• exposure to chemical or biological substances;



• work with ionising radiation;



• work near high voltage power lines;



• work exposing workers to the risk of drowning;



• work on wells, underground earthworks and tunnels;



• work carried out by divers with an air supply system;



• work carried out in caissons with a compressed air atmosphere;



• work with explosives; and



• work involving the assembly or dismantling of heavy prefabricated components.



While an ACOP accompanied the previous Construction (Design and Management) (CDM) Regulations 2007, the HSE issued guidance, rather than an ACOP, to accompany the 2015 CDM Regulations.