Matt Could you clarify what you mean by a cdm folder ? what is going to be its intended purpose ? and in what capacity you have been asked to put it together ?

Matt I beleive the terminology is a Health and Safety File. It should contain information relevant to the future cleaning and maintenance of the building, any future construction works and finally demolition. In addition to what you have suggested some of the following may be relevant. Parties involved in the contract materials and suppliers As built drawings of structure, piling layout, M&E installation structural loadings sequence of erection/dismantling O&M Manuals for any plant details of mechanical services maintenance procedures /requirements of any installed plant details of any residual hazards commissioning and test certs warranties and guarantees Is this all you have been asked to do in relation to your role as CDMC ?

I do not feel out of my depth i was just curious in what the file should contain as there is a lot of other things that can go there. I just did not want to over the load file with information that was not relevant. The HSE Will be getting notified of the build on Monday next week as it isn't starting to the 15th of November. I have also been asked to do the many other roles that a CDMC would do to.

Matt, What exactly are you looking to prepare? Is it the Statutory Pre-Construction Information, Construction Phase Plan or the Statutory Health and Safety File? If it is the H&S File, have a look at paragraph 263 of the ACOP. Are you sure that you are able to meet the statutory requirements of Regulation 4 and 20?

Matt, I am still not sure what you are trying to achieve with your "Health and Safety Folder". If the document is the Construction Phase Plan, then that is role of the Principal Contractor to prepare that and not the role of the CDM-C.

I disagree with some of that list (and so does the ACOP, to my reading). Specifically, the ACOP explicitly states that details of the contractors and designers involved in the project is not needed, and neither is details about the normal operation of the completed structure. Thus, 'parties involved in the contract', 'materials and suppliers', 'O&M Manuals for any plant', 'warranties and guarantees' are mostly out of place in the H&S file - only required if, for example, a particular material gives rise to a residual maintenance or demolition hazard. Much of that stuff could be in a contact archive, and/or O&M manuals, and the ACOP states that information that is found elsewhere should simply be cross-referenced. It's information taht will rpesumably be useful to teh client, but its proper place is not teh H&S file. Returning to the original question, I think the ACOP paragraphs 256 to 264 actually does a pretty good job of defining what should be in the file.

Matt16 has asked for some guidance, not much help from here if we cannot agree among ourselves? Problem is he needs to be more specific with the question, otherwise we are all guessing, and I still think he is out of his depth.