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Annex A CDM duty holders and their roles summarised
CDM duty holders* – who are they? Summary of role/main duties CDM duty holders* – who are they? Summary of role/main duties
Clients Make suitable arrangements for Principal designers Plan, manage, monitor and
Organisations or individuals for managing a project. This includes Designers appointed by the client co-ordinate health and safety in the
whom a construction project is making sure that: in projects involving more than pre-construction phase of a project.
carried out. • other duty holders are appointed one contractor. They can be an This includes:
• sufficient time and resources are organisation or an individual with • identifying, eliminating or controlling
allocated. sufficient knowledge, experience foreseeable risks
and ability to carry out the role.
Clients must also make sure that: • ensuring designers carry out their
duties.
• relevant information is prepared and
provided to other duty holders Prepare and provide relevant
information to other duty holders.
• the principal designer and principal
contractor carry out their duties Provide relevant information to the
principal contractor to help them plan,
• welfare facilities are provided.
manage, monitor and co-ordinate
Domestic clients Domestic clients are in scope of CDM health and safety in the construction
People who have construction 2015 but their duties as a client are phase.
work carried out on their own normally transferred to: Designers When preparing or modifying
home, or the home of a family • the contractor, on a single contractor Those who, as part of a business, designs, eliminate, reduce or control
member, that is not done in project foreseeable risks that may arise
furtherance of a business, whether or prepare or modify designs for a during:
building or product, or prepare or
for profit or not.
• the principal contractor, on a project modify designs to systems relating • construction
involving more than one contractor. to construction work. and
However, the domestic client can • the maintenance and use of a
choose to have a written agreement for building once it is built.
the principal designer to carry out the
client duties. Provide information to other members
of the project team to help them fulfil
their duties.
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