We have been testing our UK business to check that the recently amended Construction Design and Management regulations (CDM) are being put into practice. Two projects were randomly chosen and tested from our capital programmes business area, one non infrastructure project and one infrastructure project.
Our health and safety team interviewed key people within each project to identify strengths and weaknesses at both project and programme level. The tests indicated that the requirements of the regulations are still not fully understood by all team members.
To tackle this we have undertaken a number of activities including:
• Running a comprehensive one day CDM general awareness training course.
• Interviewing CDM co-ordinators to assess existing competency levels and help them appreciate the seriousness that we are placing on the role.
• Our CDM compliance processes have been re-written and training courses developed.
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