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Stuart D. Summerhayes - Design Risk Management: Contribution to Health and Safety - 9781405132756 - V9781405132756
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Design Risk Management: Contribution to Health and Safety

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Description for Design Risk Management: Contribution to Health and Safety Paperback. The CDM Regulations 2007 seek to improve the health and safetyperformance of the UK construction industry. Designers now have alegal responsibility to ensure that their designs account forhealth and safety at all stages of construction and building use. Num Pages: 176 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: KNJC; KNXC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 298 x 209 x 11. Weight in Grams: 592.
The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 (CDM Regulations 2007) is a revision of a major piece of legislation within the wide portfolio of construction-related legislation. It seeks to improve the long term health and safety performance of the UK construction industry, with ownership of health and safety proactively undertaken by the integrated project team.

Good design has always embraced health and safety issues and design teams remain essential players as well as key contributors and communicators in matters of health and safety management. Designers have a legal responsibility to ensure that their designs account for health and safety ... Read more

Design Risk Management: Contribution to Health and Safety gives detailed guidance to construction practitioners with design responsibility on how to identify and manage health and safety risks, and on the design strategies to be followed. It seeks to focus on accountability with due emphasis on the minimisation of unnecessary bureaucracy and offers documentation trails that provide an insight to managing risk and not paperwork. Subsequently it offers a process by which designers can discharge their duties in compliance with the CDM Regulations.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405132756
SKU
V9781405132756
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Stuart D. Summerhayes
Stuart D. Summerhayes is a chartered civil engineer and Registered Fellow of the Association for Project Safety. After an early period in heavy civil engineering he spent an extensive period in the university sector delivering construction related under-graduate and post-graduate courses. He is now managing director of SYNERGY CMC Ltd , which delivers two APS accredited courses, namely The Management ... Read more

Reviews for Design Risk Management: Contribution to Health and Safety
"This excellent publication, which is full of diagrams and tables (and written in a somewhat idiosyncratic way - and none the worse for that) is a mine of information, especially for those who have only ever read about the CDM Regs from the construction worker's viewpoint." (RoSPA Occupational Safety & Health Journal, 1 March 2011)

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