Posted By Mogcat
How do you satisfy/prove to a cdm coordinator that the design process you have gone through comply with the cdm regs eg. that the company has addressed the need to eliminate hazards and control risk. Has anyone else had problems with this, if so how have you overcome them.

Posted By Robert K Lewis
Mogcat

If you have, as you really need to, a formal procedure for undertaking design work the process of assessing and eliminating risks should be a part of this procedure.If so you should have notes/checklists/minutes to demonstate the ongoing process of assessment. I generally prefer the risk register and tracking of decision approach but it really depends on the needs of your own organisation

Bob

Posted By Tony abc jprhdnMurphy
If anybody asked that question of our organisation I would simply point to the competency of our designers, and their trade memberships etc. There is far too much read into checklists and forms with tick boxes. Only idiots need tick boxes.

Posted By Jez Corfield
A design risk assessment process, backed up by a 'peer' review process, for the job you can also produce a specific list of concerns based on lessons learned. Doing this at the moment for our (internal) designer who missed some obvious aspects of design on a recent job.

I dont think you can rely on designers professionalism to do this unless they employ H&S people to vet designs.

Jez

Posted By Tony abc jprhdnMurphy
Bob

couldnt agree more but there are so many other issues around appointment of competent people (references, cv make up, quals etc) that it needs to be assumed that the competent designer has undergone an approval or selection process. That being the case it is not a safety issue but a HR one. Designers, by nature, like to follow as many set in stone procedures as they can get away with. The problem for our designers is more about value engineering, sustainability, cost, cost and more cost and in no particular order.The original question is focused on CDM competence which is so subjective it would take a scientist to set the criteria. As I have stated before the most succesful businessman I ever worked with in the Construction Industry couldnt read and write, but God he was good