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CDM Regulations 2015: Designer Duties Checklist—Client Awareness, Co-operation with Principal Designer/Contractor, Risk Elimination/Control, and Health and Safety Information (Great Britain)

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For more detail on the role of the designer, see:

  • CDM Regs 2015 (SI 2015/51)
  • HSE guidance on CDM 2015
  • CONIAC guidance for designers
  • Practice Note: CDM 2015—the designer’s role

Duties of all designers

  • Before appointment, confirm you have the skills, knowledge, experience and, if an organisation, capability to safeguard health and safety.
  • Before starting, ensure the client knows its CDM 2015 duties (absolute); other duties apply so far as reasonably practicable.
  • Co-operate with any principal designer on multi-contractor projects; liaise with other designers, contractors and the principal contractor, including on adjoining sites.
  • Report unavoidable risks to the client or principal designer; issue timely, clear design information to contractors, the principal designer and principal contractor.
  • Provide comprehensible information promptly; apply the general principles of prevention and pre-construction information to remove foreseeable risks in construction, maintenance/cleaning and workplace use.
  • Where risks remain, reduce and control them; supply details for the health and safety file via the principal designer; give enough design, construction and maintenance information to help dutyholders comply; CDM 2015 covers GB design work even if produced elsewhere.

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