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The 2015 Construction (Design and Management) Regulations require that construction clients
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provide pre-construction information as soon as is practicable to every designer and contractor
appointed, or being considered for appointment, to the project. Where there is more than one Asbestos.
contractor, the principal designer should provide advice and help compile the pre-construction CDM.
information and provide it to the designers and contractors. CDM planning period.
CDM workers.
The regulations define pre-construction information as 'information in the clients possession or
Condition survey.
which is reasonably obtainable by or on behalf of the client, which is relevant to the construction
Construction phase plan.
work and is of an appropriate level of detail and proportionate to the risks involved, including
information about: Contaminated land.
Deleterious materials
The project.
Planning and management of the project.
Health and safety hazards, including design and construction hazards and how they will be
addressed.
Information in any existing health and safety file'.
Pre-construction information should be provided in a convenient form and should be clear,
concise and easily understandable. It should be prepared early in the project so that it can
provided to designers and contractors as part of the tendering or procurement process. This
enables those preparing bids to assess the resources they will need to allocate to perform their
duties under the regulations.
Designer must then take account of the pre-construction information when preparing or modifying
designs.
Pre-construction information may be added to as the project progresses, and should be provided
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The amount of detail included in pre-construction information should be sufficient to ensure that
significant risks can be anticipated, focussing on those risks that that could not reasonably be
anticipated.
The 2007 Regulations Approved Code of Practice suggested that pre-construction information
might include:
A description of the project.
Key dates.
Contact details for the project team.
The extent and location of existing information.
Project arrangements:
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1. Planning and managing the construction work.
2. Communication and liaison. Read about the measures that can be taken by
3. Security. individuals to protect and minimise exposure to
4. Site hoarding.
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6. Permit-to-work systems.
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11. Confined spaces.
12. Smoking and parking restrictions.
Safety hazards.
1. Boundaries and access.
2. Restrictions on deliveries, waste collection or storage.
3. Adjacent land uses.
4. Existing services.
5. Ground conditions.
6. Existing structures.
7. Issues relating to plant and equipment.
8. Health and safety information in earlier design, construction or as-built drawings.
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1. Asbestos.
2. Contaminated land.
3. Clients activities.
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Significant design and construction hazards build houses will be banned.
1. Assumptions and working methods.
2. Arrangements for co-ordination of ongoing design work.
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A description of the format of the Health and Safety File and any conditions relating to its
content.
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A full copy of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007
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