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If you are about to alter or extend a building or structure, thinking of putting up a new one or demolishing an existing one, then the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 place a number of specific duties on you.

The CDM regulations separates construction projects into two types - dependent on how long they take to build and how many people are involved.
For projects which are notifiable to the HSE you are required to appoint an adviser called a “CDM Co-ordinator” before significant detailed design work starts so that they can advise and assist you with all of your duties.

The aim of the CDM Regulations is to make Health & Safety an essential and integral part of the planning and management of projects and to make sure that everyone works together to reduce the risk to the Health & Safety of those who work on the structure, who may be affected by these works, or who will use it as a place or work once it’s completed.

Advantages for You:
If everyone involved in your project complies with the CDM Regulations, they will help you to:
* Reduce costs, delays and bad publicity resulting from accidents or ill health
* Make sure that cleaning, maintenance and repair issues have been thought through
* Provide useful information for the maintenance and possible future development of the building/structure The Regulations recognise that you – the Client - hold the power to influence and control those you engage or appoint on a project, and therefore that the ultimate responsibility for the achievement of a safe project is in your hands as much as theirs.
* Appoint or engage people and organisations that are competent and capable of carrying out the work they have to do and are adequately resourced
* Appoint a ‘CDM Coordinator’ to advise and assist you and also to co-ordinate arrangements for Health & Safety during the design and planning phase. The Approved Code of Practice (ACoP) requires that appointment should be before significant detailed design work which "includes preparation of the intial concept design and implementation of any strategic brief." (ACoP para 66). Designers are not permitted to undertake any other design work until the CDM Co-ordinator has been appointed.