What makes a project cdm notifiable

If you meet the notification threshold, the HSE want to hear from you, regardless of the type of project. Notifiable projects used to trigger additional duties, or, to be more accurate - there were fewer duties under CDM on non-notifiable projects.

All projects with more than one contractor including subcontractors now require the appointment of duty holders and documentation such as Construction Phase Plans to be produced. Projects over 30 working days were always notifiable before, but this is not quite the case under CDM The day threshold still stands, but only if you will have over 20 workers on site any one time.

Remember, that's at any point, so you could trigger the requirement on day one or day Ok, ok, this is not a change as such. However, the person days rule was largely ignored previously because the day trigger was usually activated before projects were even close to person days. Not so anymore. Now, if you only plan on having 10 people on site, the day rule won't ever apply to your project, but does that make it un-notifiable? The person day rule now matters way beyond the day timeframe, so it is more likely to get triggered under CDM If that 10 person a day project lasts longer than 50 days, the person day rule will trigger the notification requirement.

Ok, now we know that any construction project can be notifiable, how do we calculate if your project needs to be notified? Well, you can cheat and use our free CDM notification calculator , or you can keep reading.

The first part is pretty easy to get your head around, 30 working days with more than 20 workers at any point. It is important to remember that working days includes "any day on which construction work takes place" , so this would include weekends if work is carried out on a Saturday or Sunday. And, even if work is only carried out for part of the day, this should be considered a full working day in your calculation. But what about the second part? Exceeds person days, how do we calculate that?

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