Aug 17 2006
An industry led steering group is leading on creating guidance documents to support the revised Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM), due to come into force in April 2007. The group has been set up by the Health and Safety Commission's Construction Industry Advisory Committee (CONIAC).
The steering group has been appointed by CONIAC and its members are from a wide cross section of the industry. Kevin Fear, Head of Health, Safety and Environment at Construction Industry Training Borad (CITB) ConstructionSkills is chairing the working group - bringing a pan-industry perspective to the project.
Kevin Fear said:
"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."