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>Health and Safety and CDM Regulations
2iC follows all statutory
health and safety legislation in its work and ensures that
all contractors meet their obligations. Often this entails
following the CDM Regulations in addition to the health and
safety Approved Codes of Practise.
In order that hazards and
risks to health are 'designed out' of an irrigation system,
the CDM Regulations need addressing at a very early stage
- even if a project does not actually go ahead. The Contract
(Design and Management) Regulations 1994 S.I. 1994/3140 and
subsequent amendments set out clearly the obligations that
each party owes to a project to ensure the health and safety
of everyone working on the project or who may come into contact
with any aspect of the project work. Unlike much other health
& safety legislation, prosecutions can result if the CDM
regulations are not followed, irrespective of whether an accident
occurs.
At times these Regulations
can be interpreted as being too onerous, but in fact they
also allow for contract clarity whereby each party knows exactly
what duties they have, and what others must do. 2iC have developed
checklists and statements that allow the parties to be sure
that there is no omission in the Regulations, and to make
the process easier for their clients to follow.
Please click here
for a client checklist - this is all the information that
a client must be satisfied of before construction work can
proceed under the Regulations.
Note that the CDM regulations
are applicable to an irrigation installation if:
1. The work involves the
construction of a structure. The amended regulations which
came into force on 2nd October 2000 includes within the
definition of structures:
'…pipe or pipe
line (whatever in either case it contains or is intended
to contain),' [CDM 2 (1) (a) 1994 & Amendments].
2. …and this work
will last more than thirty days irrespective of how many
persons will work on the site [from CDM 2 (4) (a) 1994 &
Amendments].
For the purposes of the
Regulations, 2iC are Designers and Planning Supervisors -
often both at the same time. As Planning Supervisors, 2iC
also help protect their clients by advising them of their
roles as Client, irrespective of any legal obligations they
already would have had as Designers.
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