CDM Awareness
Course Overview
The E-Learning CDM Awareness Regulations Training Course will provide information to help staff identify risks and avoid the dangers during construction work.
Course Content
CDM stands for Construction (Design and Management). The CDM 2015 Regulations are the legal framework that sets out how construction projects must be planned, managed and monitored in the UK, from a small domestic extension to a major commercial build. The regulations place specific legal duties on everyone involved in a project, not just the contractor on site.
CDM 2015 divides responsibility for health and safety across several duty holders, each with a distinct role:
- Client. The organisation or individual for whom the construction project is being carried out. The client makes suitable arrangements for the project to be managed safely, ensures the right duty holders are appointed, and ensures enough time and resources are allocated to the work. On notifiable projects, the client is also responsible for notifying the HSE.
- Principal designer. Appointed by the client to plan, manage and monitor the pre-construction phase on any project involving more than one contractor. This role replaced the old CDM coordinator role when CDM 2015 came into force, so if you are searching for CDM coordinator training, this is the course that now covers that ground.
- Principal contractor. Appointed by the client to plan, manage, monitor and coordinate the construction phase on any project involving more than one contractor.
- Designers and contractors. Designers must eliminate, reduce or control foreseeable risks at the design stage. Contractors must plan, manage and monitor their own work and cooperate with the principal contractor and other contractors on site.
If you or your business carry out more than one of these roles on a project, CDM 2015 allows that, provided you have the skills, knowledge and experience to carry out each role properly.
Anyone who designs any part of a structure, including architects, engineers and anyone specifying materials or methods, has duties under CDM 2015. Designers must consider foreseeable risks to anyone who could be affected by the work, both during construction and later during the structure's use, maintenance or eventual demolition.
The principal contractor is responsible for managing health and safety throughout the construction phase of a notifiable project. A project becomes notifiable to the HSE, and requires an F10 notification before work starts, if it meets either of these thresholds:
- The construction work is scheduled to last longer than 30 working days and have more than 20 workers on site at the same time at any point, or
- The construction work is scheduled to exceed 500 person days in total
Notification is made online via the HSE's F10 form and must be submitted before construction work begins.
The CDM Awareness online course runs through the essentials in 40 minutes, including identifying what construction work is covered by CDM 2015, key definitions, and reference resources for further reading.
CDM Awareness is aimed at anyone who needs a working understanding of CDM 2015 rather than a specialist qualification in a single duty holder role, typically site managers, supervisors, designers, contractors and construction workers.
Course Duration
40 mins
Course Certification
Successful candidates will receive a certificate, valid for 3 years.
