Chartered Quantity Surveying

Project Management

CDM Co-ordinator Services

The CDM Co-ordinator has to co-ordinate the health and safety aspects of project design and the initial planning to ensure as much as they can that:

• designers comply with their duties – in particular, the avoidance and reduction of risk;

• designers co-operate with each other for the purposes of health and safety

• a health and safety plan is prepared before arrangements are made for a principal contractor to be appointed; and

• they are able to give advice, if requested, to the client on the competence and allocation of resources by designers and all contractors; advise contractors appointing designers; and also advise the client on the health and safety plan before the construction phase starts; and

• the project is notified to the Health and Safety Executive; and

• the health and safety file is prepared and deliver it to the client at the end of a project.

The pre-tender health and safety plan which the CDM Co-ordinator has to ensure is prepared should include:

• a general description of the work;

• details of timings within the project;

• details of risks to workers as far as possible at that stage;

• information required by potential principal contractors to demonstrate competence or adequacy of resources;

• information for preparing a health and safety plan for the construction phase and information for welfare provision.