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Construction safety on the farm – get up to date
with CDM regulations
Farm building maintenance and expansion is something that many
farmers will undertake at some point during the year.
owever, anything
that involves
construction work
on a farm is
subject to CDM
Regulations
(Construction (Design and
Management) Regulations 2015)
which came into force in April
2015.
The Construction Industry
Training Board (CITB), working
with industry, developed guidance
on the changes to CDM
regulations to help protect the
health and safety of construction
workers. The aim of the amended
regulations was to cut
bureaucracy for businesses and
make them simpler to understand
while still providing protection for
workers.
CITB has produced an app for
Smart phones and tablets, called
the CDM Wizard, to help develop a
construction phase plan, as
required by the Regulations. The
app has been a runaway success,
being downloaded over 50,000
times since its 2015 launch, as it
walks the user through the
construction activities to provide
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advice and guidance on the risks
involved and how these can be
eliminated or controlled.
Under the CDM Regulations
farms are considered as a
commercial client and therefore
the regulations will apply in full.
This means that a farm will have
overall responsibility for the
successful management of a
construction project and they will
need to formally appoint a
principal designer and a principal
contractor to assist them to
exercise their duties.
Clients must also make suitable
arrangements to ensure that,
throughout the planning, design
and construction of a project,
adequate consideration is given to
the health, safety and welfare of all
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