CDM Coordinators -
roles and duties

As a competent CDM Coordinator you are responsible for advising on all health and safety risk management issues.

It is your job to assist and advise the client on appointment of competent contractors and the adequacy of management arrangements; ensure proper co-ordination of the health and safety aspects of the design process; facilitate good communication and co-operation between project team members and prepare the health and safety file.

Through early involvement with clients and designers, a CDM co-ordinator can make a significant contribution to reducing risks to workers during construction, and to contractors and end users who work on or in the structure after construction.

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CDM Coordinators must:

  1. give suitable and sufficient advice and assistance to clients in order to help them to comply with their duties, in particular:
    1. the duty to appoint competent designers and contractors; and
    2. the duty to ensure that adequate arrangements are in place for managing the project
  2. notify HSE about the project.
  3. coordinate design work, planning and other preparation for construction where relevant to health and safety.
  4. identify and collect the pre-construction information and advise the client surveys need to be commissioned to fill significant gaps.
  5. promptly provide in a convenient form to those involved with the design of the structure; and to every contractor (including the principal contractor) who may be or has been appointed by the client.
  6. Manage the flow of health and safety information between clients, designers and contractors.
  7. Advise the client on the suitability of the initial construction phase plan and the arrangements made to ensure that welfare facilities are on site from the start
  8. Produce or update a relevant, user friendly, health and safety file suitable for future use at the end of the construction phase.

(The above are extracts taken from the Approved Code of Practice for the Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2007 as produced by the HSC)