CDM Coordinators Role

CDM Coordinators must:

  • Give suitable and sufficient advice and assistance to clients in order to help them to comply with their duties, in particular the duty to appoint competent designers and contractors; and the duty to ensure that adequate arrangements are in place for managing the project;
  • notify HSE about the project;
  • co-ordinate design work, planning and other preparation for construction where relevant to health and safety;
  • identify and collect the pre-construction information and advise the client if surveys need to be commissioned to fill significant gaps;
  • promptly provide in a convenient form to those involved with the design of the structure; and to every contractor (including the principal contractor) who may be or has been appointed by the client, such parts of the pre-construction information which are relevant to each;
  • manage the flow of health and safety information between clients, designers and contractors;
  • advise the client on the suitability of the initial construction phase plan and the arrangements made to ensure that welfare facilities are on site from the start;
  • co-ordinate the production or updating of a relevant, user friendly, health and safety file suitable for future use at the end of the construction phase.

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