CDM 2007 An introduction for construction clients

Designers Duties (all projects)

•Designers should:

•make sure that they are competent and adequately resourced to address the health and safety issues likely to be involved in the design

•check that clients are aware of their duties

•when carrying out design work, avoid foreseeable risks to those involved in the construction and future use of the structure, and in doing so, they should eliminate hazards (so far as is reasonably practicable, taking account of other design considerations) and reduce risk associated with those hazards which remain

•provide adequate information about any significant risks associated with the design

•co-ordinate their work with that of others in order to improve the way in which risks are managed and controlled.