Health & Safety Management
Comprehensive health and safety management ensuring full CDM compliance and protecting clients throughout construction projects.
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Understanding Your Health & Safety Responsibilities
The government health and safety executive (HSE), which polices H&S in the UK, has in many respects more power than the police to investigate breaches of regulations and issue fines, or court proceedings, which can include unlimited fines and imprisonment.
Structured Designs strives to maintain a high level of H&S standards and has enjoyed an exceptionally low occurrence of even the most minor injuries. Under the CDM 2015 (Construction Design & Management) Regulations, a project requires a Client, a designer, welfare facilities, initial and ongoing training, documented risk assessment and method Statements, supervision, certification, etc.
Most domestic clients do not know that, under CDM regulations, they, the client, have various responsibilities towards the contractor. Read on to find out more.
Client Responsibilities and Consequences Under CDM Regulations
Client breaches of the CDM regulations can lead to enforcement action, including prosecutions, significant fines, and imprisonment for individuals. Common breaches include failing to appoint the correct duty holders, not ensuring the necessary pre-construction information is available, failing to provide adequate welfare facilities and failing to appoint a principal designer and principal contractor on projects that require them. These responsibilities apply to all construction projects, regardless of size, with some duties transferred to other parties for domestic projects.
Where necessary, Structured Designs can take over the client's CDM Responsibilities as part of the overall contract H&S Planning.
