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3 March 2006 - New Date for CDM Regulation
Implementation
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Following the Health and Safety Commission's (HSC's) three month
consultation on the revised Construction (Design and Management) (CDM)
Regulations, it has been announced that an agreement has been made, with the
backing of the Construction Industry Advisory Committee (CONIAC) CDM Review
Working group, to implement in Spring 2007.
The revised Regulations will bring together provisions in the
existing CDM Regulations 1994 and the Construction (Health Safety and Welfare) (CHSW)
Regulations 1996 into a single regulatory package.
Stephen Williams, HSE's Chief Inspector of Construction said:
"The revised CDM Regulations will replace the two key sets of
existing regulations. When we began our review of those regulations, the HSC set
us some important and challenging objectives. HSE and its partners believe we
are well on the way to producing a set of replacement Regulations which will
achieve those objectives, but we would be selling ourselves short if we rushed
our proposals through.
"We need more time to make sure we get the changes right and the industry also
needs to have adequate time to familiarise itself with the finalised CDM
package."
Stephen Ratcliffe from the Construction Confederation said:
"We recognise the importance of getting these changes right.
Moving the proposed implementation date forward gives us more time to prepare
guidance for our members, and this will form an important part of the overall
package."
Further information can be accessed from the HSE Webpage by
clicking the following:
HSE announces new timetable for construction design regulations
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