And the purpose of the question is?? David

In my experience, and I do have lots of that in this area, the Regs do state clearly the requirements, however it is the PC's and other contractors that either are not aware of the requirements or they decide to ignore and just get on with it. I quite often find contractors at work and no ra's on site. Once asked for the documents they go and get them from their van. Poorly enforced - does this mean if more frequent visits to site by HSE inspectors would conditions improve - probably? Changes to the Regs would not make any difference at all, it's up to the contractors including PC's to pay more attention to the requirements. I think a qualification should be enforced on all construction workers, including management and all, coming from attandance at a CDM Regs training course. That course should include an exam with a fairly high pass rate. One day should do it.