Anonymised accounts of how CDM 2015 compliance gaps actually arise on live projects.
These are short, anonymised accounts of how CDM 2015 compliance gaps arise on live projects. None of them starts with an accident. Each starts with an assumption: that the architect was handling CDM, that planned maintenance is not construction work, or that somebody on site was in charge without ever being appointed.
Each account sets out what happened, which duty was missed, and what would have prevented it. Most turn on two regulations: Regulation 4, the client's arrangements for managing the project, and Regulation 5, the written appointment of a principal designer and a principal contractor. If one of them sounds familiar, our free one-page checklists are a quick way to test your own project.
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The client assumed their architect was "handling CDM." No written appointment had been made. Then HSE visited. This is an anonymised account of a situation we encounter more often than we should.
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The client called it "planned preventative maintenance." CDM 2015 called it construction work. HSE agreed. This is an anonymised account of how scope creep created a significant compliance gap.
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The job stopped at 9am. Not by choice — by order. A commercial client engaged a contractor for a phased refurbishment of an occupied building.
