Hi guys, I am trying to apply to APS to get recognised as a CDM Co-ordinator. I am filling out the form but, I am struggling. I have been involved in CDM projects for roughly 5 years now, not necessarily as a CDM Co-ordinator, but as the main health and safety adviser for the projects. I have found myself in positions on numerous occasions where I have been compiling all the health and safety CDM plan, file etc. I now want to venture more into the CDM side of things and get registered as a CDM Co-ordinator. The application form is asking: Provide a recent real project example of a completed log or record you use to identify pre construction information (or similar) (NB: not the pre construction information itself) what are they asking for? This baffles me, or maybe we are using something similar and just do not know. Can someone please explain? I am a chartered member of IOSH and thought membership to APS organisation would be simple!!!

As well as a good understanding of the construction process you also need a good understanding of design its principles and processes as the log noted may be a design log I advise that you chat to somebody in APS to confirm what they are asking for

Jarsmith83, I am RMaPS and only a mere Tech IOSH (10 years in health and safety). Dare I suggest that most CDM-Cs come from a design (civils) background which goes hand in hand with Bob Youel's preceding post. Good luck and contact the APS as suggested!

Jar, I am also a Chartered member and I hold Registered Membership of APS which I acquired as MAPS back in 2007 when the process was much simpler. To give you some rational for the current membership application process, this organisation is now trying to jump through the various hoops required to acquire Chartered status for some of its members. I suspect that they are simply seeking a detailed portfolio from you telling them what CDM experience that you have actually undertaken, i.e. meetings that you have attended, F10 you have submitted, processes that you have undertaken to co-ordinate the construction aspect and what you have learnt from that process. Unlike in the past where four years construction experience and a NEBOSH Construction Certificate may have got you MAPS membership, on this occasion I suspect that they may only offer you Associate Membership.

Quote=bob youel]If I remember rightly in the very early days of Planning Supervisors you paid ~£32 or £35 pounds [ I cannot remember the exact figure] and you automatically gained your membership irrespective of anything else. The background is thus; the day before the original CDM regs came in there were no such things as Planning Supervisors and on the day the CDM regs came in there were 1000's of them! We must have had hundreds of holes in the woodwork on that day!!!! Having said that there were some very good PS's and there are some very good CDMC's As things move things get tighter as has happened so we have to put up with it One big problem; in my personal view, is that the original CDM regs and the current set has not had enough input from electro/mechanical construction experts so its a very civils biased law and ACOP etc. I advise that all who want to become a CDMC to get some proper design experience as just putting packages of documents together is not the only task as its supposed to be a design appraisal role as well although its rare; in my experience; that CDMC's, unless that are designers themselves, are taken note of by designers nor clients