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CDM 2015 guide
Set the job up
The duty holders are named before the construction phase starts.
This page is a guide to a CDM 2015 duty. It is not a screen in EHSync Projects, and the app does not do this part of the job for you.
Record
The job file
The duty
CDM 2015
Where it is used
Before anyone arrives
What the duty asks for
- The client, the principal designer, and the principal contractor are appointed in writing where the job has more than one contractor.
- Each duty holder knows what they hold. A blank job is not a plan.
- The phases of the work are agreed: pre-construction, site works, structure, fit-out, commissioning, and handover.
Good practice
- Name the job, the client, and the duty holders before the site opens.
- Give each phase an owner, so the job is not rebuilt from emails.
- In EHSync Projects, sections and milestones can follow the phases of the work.
The duty
CDM 2015
Duty holders are named before the construction phase starts.
Also in CDM 2015 guides
All- Pre-constructionWhat the job starts from.
- The phase planHow health and safety will be managed on this job, kept current.
- Hold pointsSome steps should not start while the one in front of them is open.
- RAMS and methodsThe method for the task, specific to this site.
- Drawings and documentsThe current set, not the one from last month.
- Inductions and competenceWho is cleared to be on this site, and who is not.
- The site diaryWhat happened on the job that day.
- Changes to the planThe job changes. The plan has to move with it.
- HandoverThe health and safety file the client gets at the end.