Design Risk Management: Contribution to Health and Safety
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Design Risk Management: Contribution to Health and Safety

Design Risk Management: Contribution to Health and Safety

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Stuart D. Summerhayes (Author)  

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The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 (CDMRegulations 2007) is a revision of a major piece of legislationwithin the wide portfolio of construction-related legislation. Itseeks to improve the long term health and safety performance of theUK construction industry, with ownership of health and safetyproactively undertaken by the integrated project team. Good design has always embraced health and safety issues anddesign teams remain essential players as well as key contributorsand communicators in matters of health and safety management.Designers have a legal responsibility to ensure that their designsaccount for health and safety at all stages within the holisticenvelope of construction. Design Risk Management: Contribution to Health and Safetygives detailed guidance to construction practitioners with designresponsibility on how to identify and manage health and safetyrisks, and on the design strategies to be followed. It seeks tofocus on accountability with due emphasis on the minimisation ofunnecessary bureaucracy and offers documentation trails thatprovide an insight to managing risk and not paperwork. Subsequentlyit offers a process by which designers can discharge their dutiesin compliance with the CDM Regulations.
Stuart D. Summerhayes is a chartered civil engineer and Registered Fellow of the Association for Project Safety. After an early period in heavy civil engineering he spent an extensive period in the university sector delivering construction related under-graduate and post-graduate courses. He is now managing director of SYNERGY CMC Ltd , which delivers two APS accredited courses, namely The Management of CDM Co-Ordination and Design Risk Management. Both of these courses offer routes onto APS Registers which are acknowledged by the HSE as a measure of competence for the respective duty holder.
  • Contributor: Stuart D. Summerhayes
  • Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
  • ISBN13: 9781405132756
  • Number of Pages: 176
  • Packaged Dimensions: 189x295x10mm
  • Packaged Weight: 596
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Release Date: 2010-03-16
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Stuart D. Summerhayes is a chartered civil engineer and Registered Fellow of the Association for Project Safety. After an early period in heavy civil engineering he spent an extensive period in the university sector delivering construction related under-graduate and post-graduate courses. He is now managing director of SYNERGY CMC Ltd , which delivers two APS accredited courses, namely The Management of CDM Co-Ordination and Design Risk Management. Both of these courses offer routes onto APS Registers which are acknowledged by the HSE as a measure of competence for the respective duty holder.

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