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CDM & Principal Designer Services

Whatever your role in construction, the CDM Regulations 2015 aim to improve health and safety in the construction industry by helping you to:

sensibly plan the work so the risks involved are managed from start to finish

have the right people for the right job at the right time

co-operate and co-ordinate your work with others

have the right information about the risks and how they are being managed

communicate this information effectively to those who need to know

consult and engage with workers about the risks and how they are being managed

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CDM 2015 - A new approach to managing H&S risk

The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 replaced the CDM 2007 Regulations on 6 April 2015 removing the role of CDM Co-ordinator and introducing the Dutyholder known as the Principal Designer.

In line with these regulations, GHPC Group Ltd offers four key services to support your projects:

Principal Designer (CDM)

We have the experience & know-how to lead a design team through all health & safety aspects. The design process oversees uncertainty inherent in design and we ensure that design work fully considers eliminating, reducing & mitigating risk. A perfect complement to the new CDM 2015 legislation.

Having acted extensively throughout the UK as Planning Supervisor, CDM Co-ordinator and now Principal Designer (CDM), we advise all Dutyholders on their responsibilities and assist clients, designers, principal contractors & contractors to carry out their duties in accordance with the law.

CDM Advisor (to the Principal Designer)

As CDM Advisor acting in support of Designers who have been required to act as Principal Designer, GHPC can provide you with a full support service to ensure you comply with your legal obligations as Principal Designer under CDM 2015.

At GHPC, we fully understand that as a designer, you may prefer to concentrate your resource and experience towards the actual design matters of a project, but that as Lead Designer of a project, it may be sensible for your company to be named as the Principal Designer, or perhaps your Client may require it as a condition of your design appointment.

By appointing GHPC to support you in fulfilling your PD duties, you will have the full backing of our extensive experience and knowledge of all things CDM, as well as the considerable systems expertise we have developed to manage the audit trail you (and your Client) will require in discharging your legal duties.

Client CDM Advisor

As Client CDM Advisor we can act in support to your in-house development team, where you require them to act as Principal Designer.

Through this service, GHPC can provide you with full support to ensure your business complies with its legal obligations as Principal Designer under CDM 2015 and that your teams have specialist CDM knowledge when they need it.

Consortium CDM Support

As Consortium Principal Designer and CDM Advisor we can provide a structured and comprehensive service to support Consortium developments where multiple Clients and Principal Contractors will be working side by side to develop sites.

GHPC can provide a pivotal role in the management and co-ordination of the health & safety aspects of a project at consortium level, ensuring all Dutyholders across complex sites, comply with their duties

Through this service, GHPC provides support, strategy and direction to Consortium projects to ensure you and your fellow consortium members can co-ordinate and manage projects in full compliance with CDM 2015.

CDM 2015 - HSE Advice for Clients

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What to expect from our CDM Services

In delivering our Principal Designer and CDM Advisory services, we pride ourselves on providing clear, concise advice to all of our Clients and project stakeholders to ensure that projects can be run in accordance with the necessary legislation, with a strong foundation of good health & safety management, while balancing risk with cost and reaching strong, practical and logical solutions which allow the necessary commercial and design decisions to be made without compromising safety or exposing any project stakeholders to unnecessary liability.

All GHPC Principal Designers are competent and well-trained, and have extensive experience of acting as PD / CDM-C, Consortium PD / CDM-C and in project/health & safety management of larger, more complex projects (such as bridge/viaduct construction, substantial regeneration projects and major land & infrastructure development projects).

Our approach to providing comprehensive but focused information & advice, demonstrates our considerable experience in the industry, providing a thorough insight into the constraints of a project which give tendering contractors an accurate basis for providing realistic quotations and ensuring that Health & Safety remains a primary focus of their working methods.

Our team has considerable experience of managing the design process, overseeing risk inherent in design and ensuring that design work fully considers eliminating, reducing & mitigating risk, a perfect complement to the CDM 2015 legislation.