CDM 2007 Training PackageSession 4 - Designers.PPT

CDM 2007 Training PackageSession 4 - Designers Who are designers? (1) A ‘designer’ has a wide definition under CDM 2007 If you design or specify building work, then you are a designer with duties under CDM Duties apply to all projects, including non-notifiable and domestic It includes people who prepare Drawings Design details, analysis and calculations Specification and Bills of Quantities The design could be on paper, computer or verbal Who are designers? (2) Designers include Civil and structural engineers Building services engineers Those specifying or purchasing materials Temporary works designers Interior fit out designers Clients who specify Design and construction contractors Statutory bodies that require features that are not statutory requirements Statutory requirements are exempted i.e. Building Regs requirements are not designs under CDM 2007 Who are designers? - Overseas designers Where the design work is undertaken by oversees designers, the designers duties under CDM 2007 falls on: Person who commissions it if in GB or The client for the work Duties on designers (1) Designers have to: Ensure clients are aware of their duties Make sure they (the designer) are competent for the work they do Co-ordinate their work with others as necessary to manage risk Co-operate with CDM co-ordinator and others Provide information for the health and safety file Duties on designers (2) Designers have to avoid foreseeable risks SFAIRP by: Eliminating hazards from the construction, cleaning, maintenance, and proposed use (workplace only) demolition of a structure Reduce risks from any remaining hazard Give collective risk reduction measures priority over individual measures Duties on designers (3) Designers must also: Take account of the Workplace (Health, Safety Welfare) Regulations 1992 when designing a workplace structure Provide information with the design to assist clients, other designers, contractors In particular – inform others of