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CDM Regulations 2015 compliance tool

SI 2015/51 · United Kingdom · Binding instrument

Name anyone on your staff. The system makes them your compliance person.

A member of your own staff, with no compliance background, reads the training module, answers the interview, and finishes with your CDM Regulations 2015 documentation cited article by article. The knowledge stays in the business.

Every account level runs inside a dedicated Claude account. Anyone can try a toolkit in their own Claude account; compliance work runs in a dedicated one. The Claude Max plan is £90 a month, paid to Anthropic, and is not included in any level.

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CDM Regulations 2015 is SI 2015/51, a binding instrument in the United Kingdom. Construction project design and management duties for clients, designers and contractors.

The free assessment screens for CDM Regulations 2015 when a business carries out construction or building work.

Sectors this instrument reaches: construction; architecture and design; property development.

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• Your exact position under CDM Regulations 2015: what is in place, what is missing, and what to do about each gap.
• Documentation with article citations, ready for auditors, insurers, customers and public buyers.
• A trained person inside the business who understands what the regulation requires, and stays.
• A dated record of every section completed, with the reports themselves staying in your own Claude account. The toolkit is carried by an account level, see the plans.
• All of it completed in-house, at your own pace, without booking a single meeting.

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Does CDM Regulations 2015 apply to my business?

CDM 2015 applies to you if you are a client, including a domestic client, a designer, including a principal designer, or a contractor, including a principal contractor, involved in construction projects in Great Britain. Construction work is defined broadly in regulation 2(1) to cover construction, alteration, conversion, fitting out, commissioning, renovation, repair, upkeep, redecoration, maintenance, decommissioning, demolition and dismantling of a structure.

Who does CDM Regulations 2015 apply to?

It applies to clients, including domestic clients, designers, including principal designers, contractors, including principal contractors, and any person with a duty or function under the Regulations involved in construction projects in Great Britain. A client is any person for whom a project is carried out (regulation 2(1)), and a contractor is any person who in the course or furtherance of a business carries out, manages or controls construction work (regulation 2(1)).

Does CDM Regulations 2015 apply to a small business?

CDM 2015 has no size threshold. All contractors, designers and clients, including sole traders and small businesses, carrying out or commissioning construction work are covered. The notification thresholds in regulation 6, longer than 30 working days with more than 20 simultaneous workers, or exceeding 500 person days, limit the most onerous requirements, principally notification, to larger projects.

When does CDM Regulations 2015 apply from, and what are the deadlines?

CDM 2015 came into force on 6 April 2015, when the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/320) were revoked (regulation 1, regulation 38(1)). A notifiable project must be notified in writing to the Executive as soon as is practicable before the construction phase begins (regulation 6(1)-(2), (4)-(5)), and principal designer and principal contractor appointments must be made in writing before the construction phase begins (regulation 5(2)).

What does CDM Regulations 2015 require me to do?

You must make suitable management arrangements and allocate sufficient time and resources (regulation 4(1)), see that work is carried out without risk and welfare facilities are provided (regulation 4(2)), and maintain and review those arrangements (regulation 4(3)). You must provide pre-construction information (regulation 4(4)), see that a construction phase plan and a health and safety file exist (regulation 4(5)), and oversee the principal designer and principal contractor (regulation 4(6)).

What records or documents does CDM Regulations 2015 require me to keep or produce?

The principal designer must prepare and maintain the health and safety file (regulation 12(5)-(6)), and the principal contractor must supply information for it (regulation 12(7)). The file is handed over between principal designer, principal contractor and client at the end of an appointment or the project (regulation 12(8)-(10)), and the client must transfer it on disposal of an interest (regulation 4(7)).

How do I start complying with CDM Regulations 2015?

The first practical step is to make suitable management arrangements for the project and allocate sufficient time and resources, which is the client duty in regulation 4(1). The client must then appoint a principal designer and a principal contractor in writing before the construction phase begins (regulation 5(2)).

Which ComplianceSME account includes the CDM Regulations 2015 toolkit?

The CDM Regulations 2015 agent toolkit is included from the Medium level.

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