CDM-C

Aims & Objectives

This training course aims to provide information to aid competency and management system development on control of contractors and implementing the CDM Regulations 2015.At the end of the course, learners should be able to: Appreciate workplace risk and understand the moral, legal, and financial reasons for managing health and safety.Understand a simple control approach, based on the plan, do, check act approach to managing health and safety and developing policy arrangements.Understand the principles of controlling contractor activities, based on a simple 6 step approach and the role and function of CDM duty holders, such as Client’s, Principal Contractors and Designers.Understand the general principles of prevention duty holders should consider under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 and the CDM Regulations 2015.Understand the duty holders’ responsibilities under CDM 2015 and the need to appoint the right people and organisations at the right time. Appreciate the importance of ensuring everyone has the information, instruction, training, and supervision they need to carry out work in a way that secures health and safety.Understand why Clients, Contractors and CDM duty holders need to cooperate and communicate with each other when coordinating work.The importance of consulting workers and engaging with contractors to promote and develop effective measures to secure health, safety, and welfare.

Suitability

Managers & Supervisors

Requirements

Syllabus

The human capacity to become over familiar with risk. An introduction to risk perception and risk-taking behaviours in organisations and individualsThe evolution of risk control. The obstacles and benefits to effective health and safety management.The moral, legal and financial reasons for health and safety with a focus on:14 ways organisations can be moral.Latest accident statistics in the UK, Europe and worldwide.The true cost of accidents to society, organisations, and individuals.Organisational and individual legal responsibilities and the consequences of criminal and civil action.The financial benefits of effective health and safety management.Safety policy and planning (safety management systems) and how they are formulated using a plan, do, check, and act approach.Risk assessment and its importance in controlling contractors and CDM activities.Safe systems of work/safe operating procedures/method statements, what they should contain and how to check them.The different types of PTW systems used in industry, eg, General (GWP), confined spaces, hot work, roof work (work at height), chemical and excavation permits.Dynamic (‘on the job’ personal risk assessments).A list of example activities, maintenance, breakdown, overall, cleaning, demolition etc.Planning contractor work – how Clients can plan to ensure contractors get the information they need to cooperate.Pre-qualification of contractors – how establishing an approved list can help identify contractor competency and shortfalls.Selecting contractors -what needs to be done at the procurement stage to establish safe methods and systems of work.What to do before work starts – what Clients must ensure happens before allowing contract work to commence.What to do during work – how to monitor the contractor, the frequency and methods required.How to review work on completion – how to learn lessons and feedback valuable information improve the management of contractors.Visitor definition.How visitors differ from contractors from a risk.Viewpoint.Simple standards to set in policy arrangements for to help ensure visitors health and safety.RIDDOR reporting of non- employee incidents.CDM – its aims and origins.Key definitions, such as construction work.The key phases of CDM 2020.Example application of CDM.CDM exclusions.Notification of projects (form F10).Competency of duty holders’ examples.Definition of pre-construction information.Clients responsibilities for providing pre-construction information.Typical examples of pre- construction information a contractor may need to plan safe methods and systems of work.Definition of construction phase plan.Typical examples of what a construction phase plan should contain.High risk work activities defined in Regulation 12(2), schedule 3 of CDM 2015.Responsivities for the H&S plan.Definition of health and safety file.Typical examples of what a health and safety file should contain.Responsivities for the H&S file.Definition of a Client organisation.A run through the key responsibilities of a Client at each stage of the construction phase.Typical standards to apply in a CDM policy to Client duties.The Client brief and its key contents.Definition of a Principal Designer.Competency of Principal Designer and other Designers. A run through the key responsibilities of a Principal Designer at each stage of the construction phase.Design risk assessment, project risk registers and RAG (red, amber, green) lists. Definition of a Principal Contractor. Competency of Principal Contractors.A run through the key responsibilities of a Principal Contractor at each stage of the construction phase. A run through Sub – Contractor and Worker responsibilities under CDM 2015.Questions and answer session.End assessment

Notes

Fully Comprehensive notes will be given to all delegates who attend the course

Certification

On satisfactory completion of the course a certificate of competence will be issued that will be valid for 3 years