{"id":13706,"date":"2019-05-09T22:12:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T22:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/examchum.uk\/?p=13706"},"modified":"2019-05-16T23:07:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T23:07:02","slug":"commercial-clients-duties-under-the-cdm-regs-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/examchum.uk\/landscape-architecture\/commercial-clients-duties-under-the-cdm-regs-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the Client&#8217;s duties under the CDM Regs 2015?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Client duties apply\u00a0in full\u00a0to commercial clients (for domestic clients the duties normally pass to other duty-holders).\u00a0<strong>Commercial Clients<\/strong> have a crucial influence over how projects are run, including the management of health and safety risks. Whatever the project size, the commercial client has contractual control, appoints designers and contractors, and determines the money, time and other resources for the project.<\/p>\n<p>For all projects, commercial clients must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>make suitable arrangements for managing their project, enabling those carrying it out to manage health and safety risks in a proportionate way. These arrangements \u00a0include:\n<ul>\n<li>appointing the\u00a0contractors\u00a0and\u00a0designers\u00a0to the project (including the <a href=\"https:\/\/examchum.uk\/landscape-architecture\/principal-designer\/\">Principal Designer (PD)<\/a>\u00a0and Principal Contractor (PC) on projects involving more than one contractor) while making sure they have the skills, knowledge, experience and organisational capability<\/li>\n<li>allowing sufficient time and resources for each stage of the project<\/li>\n<li>making sure that any principal designer and principal contractor appointed carry out their duties in managing the project<\/li>\n<li>making sure suitable welfare facilities are provided for the duration of the construction work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>maintain and review the management arrangements for the duration of the project<\/li>\n<li>provide pre-construction information to every designer and contractor either bidding for the work or already appointed to the project<\/li>\n<li>ensure that the principal contractor or contractor (for single contractor projects) prepares a construction phase plan before that phase begins<\/li>\n<li>ensure that the principal designer prepares a health and safety file for the project and that it is revised as necessary and made available to anyone who needs it for subsequent work at the site<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/examchum.uk\/landscape-architecture\/project-being-notifiable\/\">notifiable<\/a> projects (where planned construction work will last longer than 30 working days and involves more than 20 workers at any one time; or where the work exceeds 500 individual worker days), commercial clients must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>notify the HSE in writing with details of the project through the <a href=\"https:\/\/examchum.uk\/landscape-architecture\/f10-form\/\">F10 form<\/a><\/li>\n<li>ensure a copy of the notification is displayed in the construction site office.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h5>READ MORE<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hse.gov.uk\/construction\/cdm\/2015\/commercial-clients.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Commercial clients: roles and responsibilities (HSE)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/uksi\/2015\/51\/contents\/made\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (Legislation.gov.uk)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h5>RELATED VIDEOS<\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]<div class=\"sc-youtube sc-wrapbox sc-wrapbox-style-default rounded-corners sc-wrapbox-position-below\" style=\"width: 100%;height: 300px;\"><div class=\"sc-wrapbox-inner\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-wrapbox-element img-responsive\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jveWX_TJuZQ?rel=0&amp;wmode=opaque\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>[vc_message]Please watch from 25:30 for Client&#8217;s duties[\/vc_message][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commercial Clients have a crucial influence over how projects are run, including the management of health and safety risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,20],"tags":[113,783,559,115,189,190,782],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What are the Client&#039;s duties under the CDM Regs 2015? 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