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Assessing Competence
•Competency assessments of organisations (including
principal contractors, contractors,
designers and CDM co-ordinators) should be carried out as a two-stage process:
•Stage 1: An
assessment of the company’s organisation and arrangements for health and safety to determine whether these are
sufficient to enable them to carryout
the work safely and without risk to health
•Stage 2: An
assessment of the company’s experience and track record to establish that it is capable of doing the work; it
recognises its limitations and how
these should be overcome and it appreciates the risks from doing the work andhow these should be tackled
•In order to provide more consistency in the way in which
competency assessments of
companies are carried out, a set of ‘core criteria’ have been agreed by industry and HSE. These are set out in
Appendix 4 of the Approved Code
of Practice to the CDM2007
•Stage 1 and Stage 2 assessments should be made against
these core criteria.