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Consultancy Services 2007
CDM-C Duties
•give suitable and sufficient advice and assistance to
clients in order to help them to comply
with their duties, in particular:
–the duty to appoint competent designers and contractors;
and
–the duty to ensure that adequate arrangements are in
place for managing the project
•notify HSE about the project
•co-ordinate design work, planning and other preparation
for construction where relevant to health
and safety
•identify and collect the pre-construction information
and advise the client if surveys need to be commissioned to fill significant gaps
•promptly provide in a convenient form to designers, the
principal contractor and such parts of
the pre-construction information which are relevant to each
•manage the flow of health & safety information
between clients, designers and contractors
•advise the client on the suitability of the initial
construction phase plan and the arrangements
made to ensure that welfare facilities are on site from the start
•produce or update a relevant, user friendly, health and
safety file suitable for future use at the end of the construction phase.