The average fine per conviction in construction prosecutions during 2016/17 was £77,000

  • Health & Safety
  • 40 languages
  • 30m

Learning outcomes

  • Understand the CDM regulations to help you and your employees work towards compliance with the legislation
  • Learn how to PLAN your projects to assemble the right pre-construction information
  • Learn how to MAINTAIN a safe working construction site

Covered in this course

Course contents

This training course is broken down into 3 sections

  1. 1
    What are the CDM Regulations?
  2. 2
    Planning
  3. 3
    Safe Sites

About this course

The construction industry is arguably one of the most dangerous sectors to work for. To put that statement into context, consider the fact that construction accounts for about 5% of the total UK workforce, yet it’s responsible for 31% of all workplace fatalities. On top of this, there are also 64,000 non-fatal injuries requiring medical treatment and 81,000 cases of work-related ill health every year – at a cost of £1 billion in lost working days.

It’s for this reason that the Construction (Design & Management) Regulations were first introduced. Construction projects often involve the use of dangerous equipment, materials, vehicles, and locations; they often involve working at height, near or over large drops or open bodies of water; or on incomplete structures which may topple or collapse – so when you combine this with the fact that worksites also tend to be filled with many different people all working on separate tasks, it’s easy to see where accidents can happen.

The CDM Regulations help make the chaos of a construction project controllable – from start to finish and beyond. By creating qualified roles and responsibilities for key duty holders throughout a construction project, they ensure that Health & Safety protocols are effectively managed by the right people, and that they are communicated to and followed by everyone.

This CDM Training course breaks the regulations down into three simple sections; the roles and responsibilities of everyone involved; what needs to be planned for at each stage of a construction project; and what needs to be considered in order to keep a construction site safe.

We offer a range of construction-specific courses including LOLER, PUWER, Working at Height and Ladder Safety Training. Take a look at our Construction Health & Safety Courses to see more!

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The importance of CDM Regulations Training

It's important that you comply with the law and understand the positive impact this training course can have on your organisation and employees.

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CDM Regulations Training certificate

Download and print

Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.

This CDM Regulations Training course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questionnaires guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.

As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.

What does my certificate include?

Your CDM Regulations Training Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.

Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.

783 real user reviews

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Providing a basic understanding.

This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars

Well presented.

A well presented course with clear summaries after each section.

Excellent

Course content and delivery excellent, content easy to follow summary notes very good. Easy to use and replay, enjoyed the questions however selection tabs are very sensitive while moving across the screen I accidently selected the wrong answer …presume you cant resit the exam? …I got 95% so annoying !!!….will make sure I don't read the questions with my cursor next time!

VERY GOOD

It is a very practical and effective course for my company that I run. Thanks to DL. Alex Saul for the time given and the guidance that is very good and effective for the whole company.

Clear and concise

Very good course, clear and concise delivery with just the right amount of information.

Essential information structured to be understood by all

This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars

OK bit glitcy in places

Sound was glichy in places no matter which tablet/pc/laptop I used. Aside from that course was ok. Not sure a contractor with a hard hat doesn't need hi vis and appropriate footwear though 😉

A very informative course

This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars

Why is this training important?

Compliance

It’s important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.

The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015

Whatever your role in construction, CDM aims to improve health and safety in the industry by helping you to:

– sensibly plan the work so the risks involved are managed from start to finish
– have the right people for the right job at the right time
– cooperate and coordinate your work with others
– have the right information about the risks and how they are being managed
– communicate this information effectively to those who need to know
– consult and engage with workers about the risks and how they are being managed

The HSE

Business benefits

To help make construction projects safer and easier to manage, the CDM Regulations place an emphasis on cooperation between workers, managers, and project leaders.

This means greater transparency and accountability, resulting in safer working practices; it means improved design and construction solutions as valuable skills from across the board are more easily shared; it means reduced delays as potential setbacks can be addressed more dynamically throughout a project; and, ultimately, it leads to reduced costs as mistakes, problems, delays, stoppages, and accidents can be more easily avoided. It’s important for everyone to understand their role under the CDM regulations and so taking the time to train staff is absolutely essential.

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