The Health and Safety Commission's Construction Industry Advisory Committee (CONIAC) has set up an industry led steering group in order to create guidance to support the revised Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994 (CDM), due to come into force in April 2007.
The new proposed CDM Regulations revise and consolidate provisions in the existing 1994 - CDM, and The Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996 (CHSW) into a single regulatory package.
The steering group is made up from a cross section of the industry and is chaired by the Head of Health, Safety and Environment at Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) ConstructionSkills, Kevin Fear.
The following are represented on the working group:
- Association for Project Safety
- Construction Clients Group
- Construction Confederation
- ConstructionSkills
- Department of Trade and Industry
- Federation of Master Builders
- Health and Safety Executive, Home Builders Federation
- Institution for Civil Engineers
- Institution of Occupational Health and Safety
- Institution of Structural Engineers
- National Association of Shopfitters
- National Specialist Contractors Council
- Royal Institute of British Architects
- Strategic Forum for Construction
- Union of Construction Allied Trades and Technicians.
Kevin Fear commented:
"Our aim is to co-ordinate industry guidance to ensure that clear and helpful advice is given on the application of CDM, explaining to employers and individuals what they have to do, how they work within the project team and setting out the benefits from getting it right. Each member of the steering group is responsible for consulting with and pulling together the initial draft of the guidance for key duty-holders, which come from their sector of industry. This will then be consolidated and finalised by the group which will then pass the guidance to CONIAC for sign off.
"We intend to make the guidance available to industry from January 2007. It will link in with the Approved Code of Practice, also to be published at this time, and the revised CDM Regulations which will come into force on 6 April 2007."
Anyone wishing to contribute should contact the Chair, Kevin Fear kevin.fear@citb.co.uk 01485 577451 or the secretary Stephanie Rafferty Stephanie.rafferty@hse.gsi.gov.uk 020 7717 2163 in the first instance.
Construction Skills is a partnership between CITB-ConstructionSkills, Construction Industry Council (CIC) and CITB (NI) and their website can be found by clicking the following link: ConstructionSkills
