Posted By Mike Miller can anyone out there point me to an acredited course for the above. Is there such as thing? I have had this conversation with my team regarging what and who would make good temporary works coordinators and technical know how needed. my company runs an in house 3 day course because they say that it cannot be had anywhere else. Is this true? Given the responsibility of the task and the technical input required I fell that an inhouse course may not be enough. Cheers Mike

Posted By Mike Miller Thanks you for the link I will have a look. Meanwhile does anyone else have any info? Mike

Posted By David Bramall Mike I would treat any short duration courses with caution. I don't want to put you of but temporary works are (usually) as complicated as permanent works i.e. structures. I wouldn't like to learn to design a bridge, tunnel, culvert, underpass .... in 2 OR 3 days. I am not sure what type of temporary works you refer to but do please tread carefully DrB

Posted By David Bramall Mike It seems as though you are talking about a co-ordinator under CDM (proposed). Yes - the co-ordinator apparently needs the "qualifications" to be a co-ordinator, however, I would suggest that if you have got Structural Engineers on the team i.e. I Struct E, full members of the institution of structural engineers they should almost certainly be qualified in this respect. It may be the case that they need to register on the eg. ICE register to qualify as coordinator but it should not be a problem if they are suitably qualified and have extensive experience of design and operations. All that being said, I would have thought that if one qualified coordinator was in place, he should be able to oversee the various designers and ensure that all of the design aspects have been adequately covered, therefore, the structural engineers don't really need to be coordinators anyway. Hope this helps - if I have gone off the track completely, please ignore and apologies for doing so. Regards DrB