HSE Consultation

[kerry davies]

In the Beginners Please forum we currently have two interesting discussions regarding education and skills. As if by magic the HSE have released CD261 the consultation document for CDM regulation change.

 

For me, the most interesting thing is that;"HSE believes that the competence of construction industry professionals should be overseen by, and be the responsibility of, the relevant professional bodies and institutions." What that means when CDM becomes applicable to large scale events builds, I don't know.

 

What I think it could mean is that there will be a greater need for things like certificated training in a wide range of "skills" such as H&S, NRC and the "Ticketed" activities like IPAF, PASMA, etc. It reinforces my constant refrain of self-regulate before they regulate and, IMO, makes the new Purple Guide and the IOSH guide to TDS more relevant. I think the personal and corporate competence changes make the use of untrained casuals more of a risk and we could see the local crew business expand to satisfy requirements.

 

All this is guesswork but it might pay those involved in major sports and festival events, even as day visitors providing a specialist service, to be aware. If CDM is brought into events builds as promised and CDM changes then it will affect everyone who works on a CDM event site in some small way.

[grahamrobertslx]

In the Beginners Please forum we currently have two interesting discussions regarding education and skills. As if by magic the HSE have released CD261 the consultation document for CDM regulation change.

 

For me, the most interesting thing is that;"HSE believes that the competence of construction industry professionals should be overseen by, and be the responsibility of, the relevant professional bodies and institutions." What that means when CDM becomes applicable to large scale events builds, I don't know.

 

What I think it could mean is that there will be a greater need for things like certificated training in a wide range of "skills" such as H&S, NRC and the "Ticketed" activities like IPAF, PASMA, etc. It reinforces my constant refrain of self-regulate before they regulate and, IMO, makes the new Purple Guide and the IOSH guide to TDS more relevant. I think the personal and corporate competence changes make the use of untrained casuals more of a risk and we could see the local crew business expand to satisfy requirements.

 

All this is guesswork but it might pay those involved in major sports and festival events, even as day visitors providing a specialist service, to be aware. If CDM is brought into events builds as promised and CDM changes then it will affect everyone who works on a CDM event site in some small way.

 

Does this mean I need to get 17th edition to change a lamp in Par Can?

[kerry davies]

Nope. It means that if you are concerned with management on major events builds a read through the consultation might prove useful.

 

Everyone else just needs to be aware that it may or may not apply to them on some sites but not all. No worries unless raising safety standards to those of a Lithuanian labourer on a building site is too difficult. ;)

 

Most of the really big and professional builds are well within CDM standards already.