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The regulations were originally introduced in 1994 in compliance with European Directive 92/57/EEC and were previously revised in the CDM Regulations 2007. [citation needed] CDM Regulations 2015 define responsibilities according to particular roles from client, designer and contractor. The main changes from the CDM Regulations 2007 are: [4]
The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 [36] Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 2015 (COMAH) [37] Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2017 (S.I 2017/1322) [38] The Radiation (Emergency Preparedness and Public Information) Regulations 2019. [39] Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations
CDM 2007 was a result of an EU Directive 92/57/EEC (OJ L245, 26.8.92), [3] the 'Construction Sites Directive'. They came into force on 6 April 2007, and replaced a 1994 predecessor as amended in 2000 and 1996 Health and Safety regulations. [4]
Construction safety has been considered as a hot topic in academic research. As per the latest research. the largest number of published construction safety documents were published by scholars from the US and China; the total number of published articles by these two countries was 1,125, at 56% of the 2000 articles that were published.
Prevention through design (PtD), also called safety by design usually in Europe, is the concept of applying methods to minimize occupational hazards early in the design process, with an emphasis on optimizing employee health and safety throughout the life cycle of materials and processes. [1]
The HSE was created by the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, and has since absorbed earlier regulatory bodies such as the Factory Inspectorate and the Railway Inspectorate though the Railway Inspectorate was transferred to the Office of Rail and Road in April 2006. [3] The HSE is sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions.
The regulations replaced the Noise at Work Regulations 1989 which had been introduced as a response to the 1986 European directive 86/188/EEC. [5] In 2001 the Swedish presidency of the EU put forward a proposal which would seek to replace the existing directive with a new one, 2003/10/EC. [5]
Construction workers can colloquially be referred to as "hard hat workers" or "hard hats", [5] as they often wear hard hats for safety while working on construction sites. Nevertheless, the term is a broad and generic one and most construction workers are primarily described by the specific level and type of work they perform.