ABSTRACT
Health and safety considerations continue to play an ever-increasing role in all activities in society. The overarching aim was to make health and safety integral to any construction project from the very outset of the project, even before the design stage. The high risk of injury and death in the construction sector has led to specific legislation being effected to ensure that health and safety considerations are central in any construction project. Pre-construction information, construction phase plans or health and safety files provided under the CDM 2007 Regulations are recognised as meeting the equivalent requirements in the CDM 2015 Regulations. The overarching principle of the CDM 2015 Regulations is the integration of health and safety into the fabric of the project. Safety starts by, for example, ensuring that the client allows enough time for the project to be undertaken safely: a rushed project is likely to be ill-planned and less safe.
