Contractors have an important role in planning, managing and monitoring their work to ensure any risks are controlled.
Section 4
A contractor is anyone who directly employs or engages construction workers or manages construction work.
A Principal Contractor is appointed by the client to control the construction phase of any project involving more than one contractor.
Under the CDM Regs 2015, a Designer’s role includes: to make sure the client is aware of the client duties under CDM 2015 before starting any design work…
A designer is an organisation or individual whose business involves preparing or modifying designs for construction projects, or arranging for, or instructing, others to do this.
While the CDM Regs 2015 place client duties on commercial clients in full, such duties for domestic clients normally pass to others.
A domestic client is any individual who has construction work carried out on their home, or the home of a family member, that is not done as part of any business.
Commercial Clients have a crucial influence over how projects are run, including the management of health and safety risks.
A commercial client is any individual or organisation that carries out a construction project as part of a business.
The Principal Designer’s role is very important in influencing how risks to health and safety are managed throughout a project.
A Principal Designer (PD) is a designer who is an organisation or individual (on smaller projects) appointed by the client to take control of the pre-construction phase of any project involving more than one contractor.
Both NEC and JCT contracts are standard forms of contract that are part of standard families for procuring works or consultancy services (JCT), goods, works or services (NEC).
The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) is a way of funding public projects with a private financer on board. It is a form of Public-Private Partnership (PPP).
Where the contractor is designing and building the works, a design and build contract is used. The burden of the risk is with the contractor.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has advised that planting and general horticultural work are not considered ‘construction work’.
The CDM Regs 2015 apply in every building project in the UK regardless of whether it’s domestic, commercial, notifiable or non-notifiable.
A specific number of site visits/inspections of works should be decided from the outset with the client.
Under the CDM Regs 2015 when a project is notifiable, the notification also triggers the appointment of a Principal Designer, a Principal Contractor…
If there was a discrepancy between the contract documents, the contractor would usually inform the Contract Administrator of this before proceeding.