Firesafety101 wrote:Designers risk assessments are still required by CDM.
CDM has never required designers to produce a document that is a designer's risk assessment.
They have been required to assess the risks (in order to reduce it if appropriate, or assess if they have reduced it), but not to produce designer risk assessments.
We use a 'Record of CDM Review' form. It's mostly empty space (or 'free form entry', if you prefer that term).
First block of the form is identifying stuff: project number / project name / review number / review date
A block for general information with slots for:
+ Description of Project or Element:
+ Design Principles:
+ Key Construction, Operation, Maintenance and Decommissioning Activities:
Then the main block is 'Hazard and Mitigating Action to be taken', each item written in needs to be categorised as whether it is a Construction, Operation, Maintenance, Decommissioning, or Environmental hazard, and the action required is categorized as ERIC (though as designers we generally don't ever C, but everyone knows ERIC so the form says ERIC), and there's a slot for dating when our action is complete. But apart from the space for COMDE, the space for ERIC, and the slot for a date, it's just an empty space.
Final block is signatures.
We have a project management procedure that requires the register that's assembled from the forms to be reviewed at least each time the project has a formal design review. The system is worked on paper or on computers, according to the Project Engineer's preference.
Anything that's I of ERIC on the register is added to the project drawings. The Record of CDM Review register is generally not issued (but if someone wants it, we do issue it - but there's lots of irrelevance on it - why does someone need paper telling them that at some stage of the design there was a particular hazard but there isn't any more because we eliminated it so it doesn't exist).