Large organisations are regularly embarking on major programmes reshaping their property portfolios, and inevitably the Construction Design and Management Regulations 2015 (CDM) will often be involved.
The CDM Regulations came about as a response to a significant number of fatalities and major injuries recorded in the 1980’s and 1990’s related to construction activities. A key feature of these accidents involved health and safety being seen as an add-on or unnecessary burden of construction work. Worryingly the health and safety of workers and the public was often not considered early enough in a project lifecycle.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) recognised that things needed to change and required targeted legislation. To understand the form the CDM Regulations are in today, it is important to appreciate their evolution.
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