CDM meaning, in construction, is the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, and what they mean for a small contractor is one document per task. 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. The principal contractor holds the plan; the contractor supplies a RAMS per task; the RAMS is approved against the plan before the task starts. The risk assessment and method statement tool on this site prints the RAMS from your task's figures, free and without an account.
The regulations
The UK's framework for organising health and safety on construction projects: who is responsible for what, from the client's brief to the file handed over at the end. The HSE's CDM pages, cited below, are the plain-language guide.
The roles
Client, designer, principal designer, principal contractor, contractor, worker. Where more than one contractor is on the project the principal roles are appointed; where there is one, that contractor drafts the plan.
The documents
The construction phase plan above, the RAMS per task below, the health and safety file at the end. The plan is checked against the RAMS and the RAMS against the plan. The contractor writes the RAMS; the principal contractor checks it; the client keeps the file.
What a contractor keeps
Each RAMS signed and approved, against the job, with its review. 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. DailyLogDesk Pro keeps them; the tool prints 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 meaning
Does CDM meaning differ for domestic work?
Domestic clients' duties pass to the contractor or principal contractor; the plan and the RAMS are still required.
Is a RAMS a CDM document?
It is the contractor's document under CDM, checked against the principal contractor's plan.
Is the tool free?
Yes, without an account.