UK Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015)

The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/51, in force 6 April 2015), the UK's construction health and safety management regime implementing Directive 92/57/EEC. Clients: suitable arrangements with time and resources, pre-construction information, a construction phase plan and health and safety file, written appointment of a principal designer and principal contractor where more than one contractor, F10 notification above 30 working days with 20 workers or 500 person days; domestic client duties transfer to contractors or the principal designer. All dutyholders: skills, knowledge, experience and organisational capability, cooperation, reporting danger and comprehensible information. Designers eliminate, reduce or control foreseeable risks and inform others; principal designers plan, manage, monitor and coordinate the pre-construction phase and prepare the health and safety file; principal contractors run the construction phase plan, coordinate contractors, provide induction, security and welfare and consult workers; contractors plan, manage and supervise their work with competent workers. Part 4 site requirements (safe access, stability, demolition, excavations, services, traffic, vehicles, emergencies, fire, lighting) and Schedule 2 welfare. Related: the Building Safety Act 2022 building regulations dutyholder regime in England since 1 October 2023.