The new CDM Regulations aim to help you ensure that your construction project is safe to build, safe to use, safe to maintain and delivers good value by:

• helping you to reduce bureaucracy and paperwork - making the focus planning and management, rather than the plan and other paperwork ;
• simplifying the Regulations to improve clarity – so making it easier for duty holders to know what is expected of them;
• encouraging more integration - strengthening the requirements regarding co-ordination and co-operation, particularly between designers and contractors;
• simplifying the assessment of competence (both for organisations and individuals) to help raise standards and reduce bureaucracy; and
• maximising their flexibility – to fit with the vast range of contractual arrangements.

Over the coming year HSE will be working with the construction industry to develop practical examples and real life experiences for showing the benefits that CDM 2007 has for everyone involved in construction.