CDM & Principal Designer Services
Whatever your role in construction, the CDM Regulations 2015 aim to improve health and safety in the construction industry by helping you to:
sensibly plan the work so the risks involved are managed from start to finish
have the right people for the right job at the right time
co-operate and co-ordinate your work with others
have the right information about the risks and how they are being managed
communicate this information effectively to those who need to know
consult and engage with workers about the risks and how they are being managed
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CDM 2015 - Managing H&S risk
The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 introduced the Dutyholder known as the Principal Designer.
In line with these regulations, GHPC Group Ltd offers four key services to support your projects:
Principal Designer (CDM) Dutyholder
We have the skills, knowledge & experience to lead a design team through all the health & safety aspects of a project, to ensure that design work is carried out to take account of the health & safety risks to those who will be affected by the development. Our co-ordination with the client and design team is based on the general principles of prevention, encouraging the review of residual risk in the design and the potential to eliminate, reduce or mitigate identified project risk, as required under the CDM legislation.
Having acted extensively throughout the UK as Principal Designer (CDM) and providing CDM support services, we advise all Dutyholders on their responsibilities and assist clients, designers, principal contractors & contractors to carry out their duties in accordance with the law.
What to expect from our CDM Services
In delivering our Principal Designer and CDM Advisory services, we pride ourselves on providing clear, concise advice to all of our Clients and project stakeholders to ensure that projects can be run in accordance with the necessary legislation, with a strong foundation of good health & safety management, while balancing risk with cost and reaching strong, practical and logical solutions which allow the necessary commercial and design decisions to be made without compromising safety or exposing any project stakeholders to unnecessary liability.
All GHPC Principal Designers are competent and well-trained, and have extensive experience of acting as PD, Consortium PD and the team has delivered CDM and Health & Safety co-ordination across a wide range, and substantial number of, larger, more complex projects (such as bridge/viaduct construction, substantial regeneration projects and major land & infrastructure development projects).
Our approach to providing comprehensive but focused information & advice, demonstrates our considerable experience in the industry, providing a thorough insight into the constraints of a project which give tendering contractors an accurate basis for providing realistic quotations and ensuring that Health & Safety remains a primary focus of their working methods.
Our team has considerable experience of managing the design process, overseeing project specific risk with a focus on the general principles of prevention. We always encourage the review of residual risk in the design and the potential to eliminate, reduce or mitigate identified project risk as required under CDM legislation.
High quality, digital, CDM handover documentation has always been part of our CDM service offering. The BSA requirements have highlighted the need for the preparation of digital Health & Safety Files for all projects to ensure Management Companies and Housing Associations etc. receive the detailed project handover information at completion. We support our clients from design stage to consider what will be required and we work with the project team to collate the Health & Safety Files and/or Management Packs as appropriate to the project.
