CDM Health & Safety Consultancy Services

Our Core Building Health & Safety Services

Our technical competence, cross-sector experience, industry leading processes and ISO17020 accreditation means we are ideally placed to advise on all current Health & Safety regulatory compliance.

Principal Designer/Advisor

• Manage the co-operation of all other duty holders involved in the project to enable them to effectively perform their duties under the regulations.
• Co-ordinate design work, planning and other preparation for construction where relevant to health and safety.
• Advise the client on what pre construction information is required
• Develop and communicate the pre construction information in an agreed form to those involved in the design and construction.
• Lead CDM design review meetings/CDM Workshops
• Coordinate the communication of significant residual risks via the most effective methods
• Liaise with the Principal Contractor on any design development which may affect planning and management of the construction work.
• Produce the Health and Safety File for completion of the works.

CDM Client Advisor

• Obtain the Clients approval to submit the F10 Notification to be given to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and updates when required.
• Provide advice to the client on the health and safety competence and resources of the Principal Designer, designers and the preferred tendering/negotiating contractor appointed by the client.
• Give advice to the client to ensure that their arrangements for managing the projects are suitable.
• Advise the client on the suitability of the Principal Contractor’s Initial Construction Phase Plan and ensure that appropriate welfare facilities will be provided during the construction phase.
• Carry out CDM Site Inspection(s) and report to the Client and Principal Contractor
• Review the Health and Safety File on completion of the works

Additional health and safety consultancy services

To complement our CDM related services, our team of health and professionals can provide additional services to assist clients, designers, and contractors alike who are striving for best practice. These include:

• Client CDM management arrangements gap analysis, document development and awareness training.
• CDM awareness training (all duty holders)
• Principal Designer health and safety in design strategy development
• CDM compliance verification audits (pre-construction)
• Enhanced construction phase monitoring and reporting, including production of dashboards and trend analysis

Added value

Our experienced CDM consultants deliver on compliance, impartiality and a controlled method of communication with the project team. Our involvement as CDM Specialists will be a proactive and open approach to all parties involved to ensure that the works are carried out safely in accordance with the regulations and meet our clients’ expectations.

As part of Sweco UK, we have access to Building Control support, as well as built environment design and engineer expertise that enhances our CDM Principal Designer and wider buildings safety and compliance consultancy services.

We are committed to providing professional and up to date advice on health and safety in design best practices, safe working practices and legislation to the project team. We are regarded as forward-thinking and thrive on working collaboratively with the project team. Bringing new initiatives to a project is not only rewarding, it brings the workforce closer together which can result in a safer environment. The wellbeing of individuals is as important as carrying out the work safely and is being more widely recognised in the construction industry.