Baqus bring to the new role of CDM Co-ordinator our established professional approach, a realistic appreciation of clients' requirements, and a practical solution to the issues involved. The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 places wider statutory duties on clients than the previous 1994 Regulations including the appointment of a CDM Co-ordinator.

Senior staff are on HSE approved Registers of CDM Co-ordinators, a key criterion in the competence assessment criteria given in the ACOP. Baqus Group is also Corporate Members of the Association for Project Safety.

Our CDM Co-ordinators work closely with end users to better understand their requirements for every scheme including any restrictions, phasing, decanting etc. This process of interaction has enabled us to engender mutual respect and confidence with the client and project stakeholders.

Services offered include the following:

• Provision of suitable and sufficient advice and assistance to client in order to help them to comply with their duties, in particular:
  • the duty to appoint competent designers and contractors; and
  • the duty to ensure that adequate arrangements are in place for managing the project;
• Notification to HSE about the project;
• Co-ordination of design work, planning and other preparation for construction where relevant to health and safety;
• Identification and collect the pre-construction information and advise the client if surveys need to be commissioned to fill significant gaps;
• Promptly provide in a convenient form to those involved with the design of the structure; and to every contractor (including the principal contractor) who may be or has been appointed by the client, such parts of the preconstruction information which are relevant to each;
• Management of the flow of health and safety information between clients, designers and contractors;
• Advising the client on the suitability of the initial construction phase plan and the arrangements made to ensure that welfare facilities are on site from the start;
• Producing or updating a relevant, user friendly, health and safety file suitable for future use at the end of the construction phase.