CDM 2015
Embedding the new
regulations
Simon Longbottom
18 June 2015
Content
• Context
• Summary of changes
• Delivery of coordination
• New approach to competence
• Domestic clients: unintended
consequences?
• Role of H&S professionals
• Supporting materials
• Challenges
Context
• Better regulation
– Simplification
– Less bureaucracy
– Focus on risk
• Directive implementation
• H&S outcomes
– Focus on risk
– Coordination
Simplification - CDM 2007
Part 1 Part 4
Part 2
Part 3
Simplification - CDM 2015
client appts designer PD Plan/file PC contractor
Part 4
General requirements
Part 2 Part 3
The structure of the Regulations has been simplified
Summary of changes
• Thresholds
• Domestic clients
• Competence
• Coordination
The Client’s ‘Principals’
client
PD PC
Coordination
• Poorly resourced in CDM 2007
• Function not role
• Embedded within existing team in CDM 205
• Not witchcraft
• External advice?
Competence
• Change counter-
intuitive?
• Regulating for
competence
• Unintended outcomes
– Individual
–Corporate
• Wider than HSE
Domestic clients
• Exemption removed
• Criminalise home
owners?
• Compromise
• Limited transfer of duties
• Risk of mis-selling
services
• No change in targeting or
enforcement expectation
Role of H&S professionals
• Proportionality
• Real risk
• Sensible H&S
CDM 2015 – guidance
• Legal commentary (L-Series)
• Duty holder-specific guidance authored by CONIAC – aimed at smaller projects
• Revised HSE web pages
• Template H&S plan – smartphone app
• Revised client leaflet
Post implementation:
• Simplified sign-posting ACoP?
Challenges
• What is good enough?
• Skills and growth
• H&S professionals – shared vision of sensible and proportionate
Thank you for listening