CDM Advisory ServiceNHBC Services

The role of the principal designer is to plan, manage, monitor and coordinate the pre‑construction phase of the project, and to ensure where possible that all elements of health and safety have been considered and designed into the scheme.

CDM Advisory Service

NHBC has designed a suite of advisory services to help you undertake your duties. We will work closely with your team and support your principal designers in their day‑to‑day role; guiding and assisting when required.

Our service offers independent and unbiased health and safety advice and can be adapted to suit your needs. It offers flexibility through a range of solutions, and enables you to upgrade the service at any point throughout your build.

Whether you are a developer, principal designer, design team, client or contractor, we have a CDM advisory package to suit; ranging from the standard solution to help you fulfil your CDM duties, to the enhanced package with additional options should you need them.

It’s a flexible service that our customers have told us is a cost‑effective way of helping to ensure that their projects are delivered safely. And what’s more, you will be allocated your own personal CDM advisor who will be your single point of contact throughout your project.

The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM) 2015 place responsibility on the developer or client to appoint a principal designer on all house‑building projects where more than one contractor is employed

CDM Regulations 2015 are designed to:

n Integrate health and safety into project management right from the start

n Identify potential risks as early as possible so they can be addressed

n Support the efficient use of health and safety resources

Why choose NHBC

NHBC has over 20 years’ experience providing health and safety services to the house‑building industry.

With an in‑depth knowledge and understanding of the CDM Regulations and an experienced team of health and safety specialists, NHBC is perfectly placed to help you achieve effective health and safety management, and to meet your CDM requirements.

A flexible and cost‑effective way of helping to ensure that your projects are delivered safely.

Talk to us... Call us now on 0844 633 1000 and ask for ‘Sales’ Or visit www.nhbc.co.uk/hs

Client A client is an individual or company having work done for them, e.g. an independent homeowner having work done on their house, through to a major house‑building project for a Housing Association.

Principal designer The principal designer will often be a member of the in‑house technical team or appointed architect on a project, and in a position to have control over the design and planning stage.

Principal contractor It is the principal contractor who has responsibility for the construction phase of a house‑building project, making sure, wherever practicable, that it’s delivered without risk to health or safety.

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Dedicated CDM advisor

Site health and safety survey

Pre‑construction information

F10 management

Attendance at design team meetings

Review Construction Phase Plans

Ongoing CDM advices

Construction Phase Plan production

Site inspection and monitoring visits

Contractor and design team competency checks

Review documentation

Homeowner health and safety file

Managed building health and safety files

Your duties under CDM Regulations 2015

Understanding and delivering your duties under CDM Regulations 2015 can be daunting. To assist, NHBC has developed a suite of services to help you comply with your duties.

A CDM solution will be tailored to your requirements.

Developer Housing developers often act as the client, principal designer, principal contractor, or perhaps all three. As a developer, you need to be aware of your responsibilities under CDM Regulations 2015 and ensure that these are being carried out.

Core CDM activitiesDedicated CDM advisor

As part of the NHBC CDM advisory service, you will be allocated your own personal CDM advisor who will be your single point of contact throughout the project. They will work closely with you to help ensure that you are doing everything to fulfil your duties as required by the CDM 2015 Regulations.

Site health and safety survey

Your CDM advisor will undertake an initial visit to the proposed construction site to ascertain existing health and safety issues, and to identify where further information will be required prior to the start of construction.

Pre-construction information

Following a survey of the site, a report will be prepared for inclusion in the pre‑construction information, detailing potential health and safety issues identified using existing surveys and reports.

F10 management

We will ensure that the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is notified as appropriate, and that this notification is managed for the lifetime of your project.

Review Construction Phase Plan

We will liaise with the principal contractor to ensure a suitable Construction Phase Plan is produced to enable work to begin on site.

Additional CDM activitiesAttendance design team meetings

Your CDM advisor will attend design meetings and offer CDM and health and safety expertise. They can assist designers in identifying health and safety risks and provide advice and guidance on the ‘principles of prevention’, a hierarchy of risk elimination and reduction.

NHBC will assist you in delivering your pre‑construction CDM activities; construction and handover CDM services are also available

Health and safety training from NHBC At NHBC, our health and safety training covers a broad range of practical, technical and management topics. We offer courses for office and site‑based staff on CDM, understanding duties and the detail of the regulations, to the Site Management Safety Training Scheme which we run in conjunction with CITB.

CDM courses from NHBCNHBC/APS Management of Pre-Construction health and safety (three day)

NHBC is accredited by the Association for Project Safety (APS), to deliver this three‑day course to those who wish to act as CDM advisors, to clients, principal designers and contractors or construction safety practitioners.

CDM Regulations 2015 Awareness (one day)

If you are a client, designer, developer, contractor, or in a technical role, this one‑day course is essential for you to understand your CDM responsibilities, and how your role interrelates with others.

Delivered either as open or in‑company courses, our training is excellent value for money; delegates will leave with a much wider knowledge of construction health and safety best practice.

Construction Phase Plan production

The Construction Phase Plan is prepared in consultation with the principal contractor to ensure that it is appropriate for the project, and is reviewed at health and safety site visits.

Site inspection and monitoring visits

Your CDM advisor will undertake regular site inspections to review any existing and potential health and safety risks, whilst ongoing site health checks will reassure the client that the principal designer is managing health and safety on site appropriately.

Contractor and designer competency checks

We will help to ensure that any contractors or designers that you engage for your project have sufficient skills, knowledge and experience to work safely. We will ask for references and examples of previous work to demonstrate capability.

Review documentation

Your CDM advisor will review health and safety information relating to your site to help ensure that documents are suitable and sufficient for the project. If these are not in place, they will provide guidance on the changes required.

Homeowner health and safety files

We produce an easy‑to‑understand health and safety file for individual dwellings and homeowners.

Managed building health and safety files

For managed properties your CDM advisor will agree on content, and collate information from the design team and principal designer, compiling a health and safety file on behalf of the principal designer. This will provide information required for future activity on site such as cleaning, maintenance and ongoing building work.

The process for deciding which level of CDM advice you need from us is simple. CDM should not be baffling, and the descriptions opposite explain the main principles of each activity.

Our transparent and ‘easy‑to‑digest’ CDM advisory offer, means that, as a team we will work closely together and be ready from day one to ensure that your duties are met under CDM Regulations 2015.

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CDM Advisory ServiceTalk to us... Call us now on 0844 633 1000 and ask for ‘Sales’.

Or visit www.nhbc.co.uk/hs

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