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CDM Awareness eLearning
Online CDM awareness training that explains the duty holders, when a project is notifiable, and what the client is actually on the hook for: which is more than most clients realise.
Who it is for
Who this cdm awareness course is for
CDM applies to every construction project in Great Britain, including small domestic ones. Its most misunderstood feature is that the client carries real duties, whether or not they think of themselves as a construction business.
- Clients commissioning construction or refurbishment work
- Principal designers and designers
- Principal contractors and contractors
- Project managers and quantity surveyors
- Facilities and estates teams arranging building works
- Anyone new to a role with CDM duties
Course content
What the cdm awareness course covers
Five short lessons covering what CDM covers, the duty holders, client duties, design and construction phase planning, and notification and the health and safety file, then a 12-question assessment.
What CDM covers
Construction work as CDM defines it, the scale of the risk, and domestic clients.
The duty holders
Client, principal designer, designer, principal contractor, contractor and worker.
Client duties
What a client must do, and the Building Safety Act dutyholder regime alongside CDM.
Design and construction phase planning
Designers eliminating risk, and the construction phase plan.
Notification and the health and safety file
F10 notification thresholds, the health and safety file, and competence.
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Recognise when CDM applies, including to domestic clients
- Identify the duty holders and their main duties
- Explain what a client must do
- Describe design risk management and the construction phase plan
- Know when to notify HSE and what the health and safety file is for
Your legal duty
The law behind cdm awareness training
The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 set out duties for clients, designers, principal designers, principal contractors, contractors and workers across the whole life of a construction project. They apply to all construction work, including domestic projects, where the client's duties normally pass to the contractor or principal contractor.
Notification to HSE is required where construction work is scheduled to last longer than 30 working days with more than 20 workers working simultaneously at any point, or exceeds 500 person days. Notification does not change the duties. It simply tells the regulator the project exists.
- Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM)
- Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 - sections 2 and 3
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 - risk assessment
- Work at Height, PUWER and LOLER apply to the work itself
Practicalities
How the course works
Would you rather have a tutor?
Site managers and supervisors generally need SMSTS or SSSTS alongside CDM awareness.
For employers
CDM Awareness training for a team
CDM awareness is worth having across a project team, because most CDM failures are co-ordination failures rather than technical ones.
- One invoice instead of a card payment per person
- Licences allocated as people join, so induction is covered
- Completion and expiry reporting for your records
- Renewal reminders before certificates lapse
- Bespoke versions built around your own procedures
CDM Awareness eLearning: common questions
Yes. CDM 2015 applies to all construction work regardless of size, including domestic projects. What changes with size is whether the project is notifiable and how the client's duties are handled.
CDM applies to domestic projects, but the client duties normally transfer to the contractor, or to the principal contractor where there is more than one contractor. The course explains how that works.
Where construction work is scheduled to last longer than 30 working days and have more than 20 workers working simultaneously at any point, or exceeds 500 person days.
No. This is awareness training. The principal designer role requires the skills, knowledge, experience and organisational capability the Regulations describe.
About 30 to 45 minutes, with no time limit: start it, pause it, and come back whenever suits. The certificate is issued as soon as you pass the end assessment.
Yes. It runs in a browser on any modern phone, tablet or computer, with nothing to install.
Yes. Open a business account and we invoice you for the licences, which you allocate as people need them, with completion reporting included.
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