Associate - Safety, Health & Environment Specialist

Overall role as per Regulations 4 and 5 of CDM2015 (Client Duties), to make suitable arrangements for managing a project and maintaining and reviewing these arrangements throughout, so the project is carried out in a way that manages the health and safety risks. This is done by:

• Providing client-side governance & assurance of delivery of CDM Duty Holder Roles, by:


• Overseeing the coordination and integration of the PD activities programme-wide.


• Overseeing the coordination and integration of the PC activities programme-wide.


• Development, upkeep and communication of the CDM Strategy.


• Conduct Competence Assessments/audits (Skills/Knowledge/Experience) to ensure competent contractors/designers are appointed by the Client.


• Ensuring that sufficient Client led Pre-Construction Information is obtained and provided, including any pre-existing survey information, as built drawings, H&S Files and other important information.


• Driving the use of collaborative platforms for the management of Safety in Design


• Coordinating significant CDM risks


• Developing a Pre-Construction and Construction Phase set of KPI's to measure and report against through routine reporting to the Client, on the status and performance of the CDM Strategy's implementation and advise on CDM matters, through a reporting line at the Programme Leadership Team.


• Advise the Client with regards to any significant CDM issues identified and assure that CDM obligations are met programme wide.


• Monitoring of significant CDM hazards identified by the design teams (through attendance at design risk review meetings and ownership and management of a Programme CDM Risk Log).


• Auditing of PD duties including both safety in design, design review meetings, PCI development, residual risk registers and H&S File development through implementation of an independent audit regime.


• Auditing of PC duties including development of construction phase plans, construction site safety arrangements, logistics plans and management of subcontractors to ensure consistent delivery through implementation of an independent audit regime.