CDM meaning construction people ask about is the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, and what they mean in practice depends on the role. 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. For a small contractor they mean one thing per task: a risk assessment and method statement, site-specific, signed by the crew, submitted to the principal contractor and approved against the plan before the task starts. The risk assessment and method statement tool on this site prints it, free and without an account.
The regulations
The framework for organising health and safety on a construction project, from the client's brief to the file at the end. The HSE's CDM pages, cited below, describe the roles. They apply to all construction work in Great Britain, proportionately, from a domestic extension upward.
The plan and the RAMS
The plan above, held by the principal contractor or the sole contractor; the RAMS per task below, checked against it. A RAMS consistent with the plan is approved; one that contradicts it is returned. The tool on this site prints the RAMS.
The legal duty inside the RAMS
Regulation 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, cited below, requires every employer to make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to the health and safety of their employees, and regulation 3(6) requires an employer with five or more employees to record the significant findings and any group of employees especially at risk. The method statement is how the industry shows the assessment applied.
What is kept
The approved, signed RAMS in its version against the job. DailyLogDesk Pro keeps it; the tool prints it. 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 meaning construction
Is CDM the same as a health and safety plan?
The construction phase plan is the CDM document at project level; the RAMS is the task level.
Who enforces CDM?
The HSE, which also publishes the guidance cited below.
Is the tool free?
Yes, without an account.