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CDM 2007 Training Package Session 6 – Site health & safety

CDM 2007 Training Package Session 6 – Site health & safety. Version: September 2007. Duties to control worksite health and safety (1). Part 4 of CDM 2007 contains the duties to control specific worksite health and safety risks

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CDM 2007 Training Package Session 6 – Site health & safety

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  1. CDM 2007 Training PackageSession 6 – Site health & safety Version: September 2007

  2. Duties to control worksite health and safety (1) • Part 4 of CDM 2007 contains the duties to control specific worksite health and safety risks • Equivalent to the duties under the old Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996 - which Part 4 replaces • Applies to all construction sites • Duties on every contractor & every other person who controls construction work • The wording and style has been updated and structure altered in parts, but retains most of the basic requirements of the original regulations. CDM 2007 Site health & safety – Slide 2

  3. Duties to control worksite health and safety (2) • There are some changes however: • Good order now requires a site to be identified by suitable signs, be fenced off or both in accordance with the level of risk • New requirement to record in writing arrangements for demolition and dismantling • Excavations, cofferdams & caissons provisions have been extensively rewritten to make them more succinct and cohesive CDM 2007 Site health & safety – Slide 3

  4. Duties to control worksite health and safety (3) • Duties on reports and inspections have been restructured • Rest facilities, now requires seats with backs (specific requirement of the European directive – only required if replacing existing seating) • Training and competence, specific requirements covered in the general part of the regulations CDM 2007 Site health & safety – Slide 4

  5. Duties to control worksite health and safety (4) • Requirements for doors & gates have been moved to Workplace (Health, Safety & Welfare) Regulations 1992 • Provision to have equipment to replace rail vehicle onto it’s track have been removed • Prevention of drowning, provisions on a vessel’s construction, maintenance and under control by competent person removed CDM 2007 Site health & safety – Slide 5

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