CDM compliance, for a small contractor, is a set of documents rather than a certificate. The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, cited below, place duties on clients, designers, principal designers, principal contractors, contractors and workers, and regulation 12 is where the construction phase plan and the health and safety file sit. As a contractor under a principal contractor: a RAMS per task, site-specific and approved against the plan, with the crew's signatures. As sole contractor: a proportionate construction phase plan as well. Around them: the training and competence records for the people named, the plant inspections, the incident reports. The risk assessment and method statement tool on this site prints the RAMS, free and without an account.
The plan, where you hold it
As sole contractor, the construction phase plan before the site opens: site rules, emergency procedure, welfare, the significant risks and their arrangements. Proportionate to the job; a domestic extension's plan is a few pages.
The RAMS, always
One per task with significant risk, consistent with the plan, hazards from the site's walk, controls at steps, permits and plant named, rescue arrangements for height, signed. The HSE's guidance, cited below, gives risk assessment as five steps: identify hazards, assess the risks, control the risks, record your findings, review the controls, and says that if you employ 5 or more people you must record your significant findings.
Training, plant, incidents
The people in the method with the training the task needs, dated; the plant with its inspections; every incident and near miss reported, analysed and followed by a change. The incident report template on this site prints the last.
Kept against the job
The plan, the RAMS in their approved versions, the training, the inspections, the reports, per job, exportable when the principal contractor, the client or an inspector asks. DailyLogDesk Pro keeps them; the tools print them. From the vendors' own pricing pages, cited below: SafetyCulture lists its Premium plan at $29 per seat per month billed monthly or $24 billed annually, with a free plan for small teams; Contractor Foreman lists its Basic plan at $49 per month for one user. DailyLogDesk Pro is $29 per month for the whole site team.
Questions people ask about cdm compliance
Is there a CDM compliance certificate?
No; the documents are the evidence, and accreditation schemes assess them.
Who checks CDM compliance?
The principal contractor on the site, the client, and the HSE, which enforces the regulations.
Is the tool free?
Yes, without an account.