Well Pearce it depends on who your boss is and his personal,opinion. I work as CDM C for a design company and I am the only one qualified to any level health and safety. I am CMIOSH through NVQs with many years experience in fire and safety. I was RSP when that was around. The design company is CDM C but I do the work. I have donned my Tin Hat and await the flack now ;-)

listen to Steve as its very very good advice having a Diploma on its own [or an MSC etc.] does not make one competent especially in higher risk areas its the experience along with the knowledge that counts

The regs do not say that for someone to work as CDM-C they need Nebosh. Nor do the regs say that Nebosh is sufficient to qualify someone to work as CDM-C. All the regs say about Nebosh is that in an appendix relating to competence they state that Nebosh is one example of a way to demonstrate one aspect of one stage of competence. No one person is competent to carry out CDM-C duties on every possible construction project. One qualification certainly doesn't do it. In my view, that qualification alone doesn't make you competent to be CDM-C on any construction project.

If you study appendix 5 of the ACOP, there is considerably more emphasis on Chartered membership of a recognised construction-related institutions. For example CIBSE; ICE; IEE; IMechE; IStructE; RIBA; CIAT; CIOB., however even though I meet this criteria, I am a Chartered Fellow of IOSH, commercially required to be RMaPS, even I have been rejected as not being sufficiently competent to deliver the CDM-C criteria for one local authority, because I did not have a NEBOSH Construction Cert! It is strange how Chartered membership of a recognised construction-related institutions has been mainly overlooked, but the lower NEBOSH Construction Cert criteria has stuck.

First thought on a personal basis is to ask if you are completing your IPD ahead of your peer interview for chartered status? If not is there a particular reason - Keep the answer private to yourself !!! Be glad also that the role will disappear next year and probably the job.:-) Unfortunately many people do not understand what the regs are saying about competence and especially the Nebosh CC mention in the regs - it was intended clearly as a Minimum level of training in H&S NOT the only possible but many employers are ignorant of this. Good news again the HSE in their wisdom have repealed the competence requirement in the new regulations. Two answers then either walk away when you can or wait smugly until the changes take place. In the meantime look at your own competencies and start to develop yourself for the next move. Be ahead of the game and do a presentation now on the current cdm consultation and proposed changes, in your own time if need be. Prepare well and be ready to convince your directors that YOU are the person most competent to present the discussion as you have the senior H&S qualifications. You could talk to the Grange for some advice re the issue of what they anticipate a person with certain levels of training can do in an organisation. Bob