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Principal Designer's Handbook

Author Association for Project Safety
Release Date: 2019/07/01
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Book Description

The new CDM regulations came into force on 6th April 2015 changing the face of pre-construction health and safety management on construction projects, large and small. This handbook provides a comprehensive road map to undertaking the new Principal Designer role brings pre-construction health and safety risk management into the hands of architects and other designers. Offering authoritative and straightforward guidance to carrying out these tasks, it also uses case studies and checklists to demonstrate how this can be done quickly and efficiently.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. FOREWORD
    1. About The Association for Project Safety
    2. Acknowledgements
  6. INTRODUCTION
    1. Who can be the Principal Designer?
    2. Role requirements
  7. 1 THE PRINCIPAL DESIGNER ROLE
    1. 1.1 Role overview
    2. 1.2 Different role responsibilities
    3. 1.3 Commercial projects
    4. 1.4 Domestic projects
    5. 1.5 Partial design service
  8. 2 THE PRINCIPAL DESIGNER IN PRACTICE
    1. 2.1 Appointment and fees
    2. 2.2 Pre-Construction Information
    3. 2.3 Pre-Construction Information development
    4. 2.4 General Principles of Prevention
    5. 2.5 Particular risks
    6. 2.6 Design Risk Management
    7. 2.7 Preparing the Health and Safety File
  9. 3 LIAISON WITH THE PRINCIPAL CONTRACTOR
    1. 3.1 The Construction Phase
    2. 3.2 Continuing liaison during the Construction Phase
    3. 3.3 The defects liability period
  10. 4 STANDARD AND EXEMPLAR DOCUMENTS
    1. 4.1 Resourcing, fees and appointment
    2. 4.2 Pre-Construction Information
    3. 4.3 Design Risk Management
    4. 4.4 Health and Safety File
  11. 5 KEY CDM ROLES
    1. 5.1 Précis of the duties of various duty holders under CDM 2015
    2. 5.2 General duties
    3. 5.3 Client
    4. 5.4 Principal Designer (Pre-Construction Phase)
    5. 5.5 Designer
    6. 5.6 Principal Contractor
    7. 5.7 Contractors
    8. 5.8 Workers
    9. 5.9 CDM Adviser
  12. REFERENCE
    1. Training and support
    2. Bibliography and reference material
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