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The job
Set the job up
The project exists before the first person arrives.
Record
The job file
The duty
CDM 2015
Where it is used
Before anyone arrives
What it does
- Name, location, client, and the CDM duty holders. Principal designer and principal contractor named.
- Phases of the work: pre-construction, site works, structure, fit-out, commissioning, handover.
- Who owns each phase. A blank job is not a plan.
On the record
- The job has a name, a client, and the duty holders before the gate opens.
- Each phase has an owner. You are not reconstructing the job from emails.
- The phase plan, the gates, and Pure Safety start from this record.
The duty
CDM 2015
Duty holders are named before the construction phase starts.
Also in The job
All- Pre-constructionWhat the job starts from.
- The phase planHow health and safety will be managed on this job, kept current.
- Gates and hold pointsThe next step does not start while one in front of it is open.
- RAMS and methodsThe method for the task, specific to this site.
- Drawings and documentsThe current set, not the one from last month.
- Inductions and competenceWho is cleared to be on this site, and who is not.
- The site diaryWhat happened on the job that day.
- Changes to the planThe job changes. The plan has to move with it.
- HandoverThe pack the client gets, and the file the job closes on.
