CDM & Principal Designer Services

Manage your CDM responsibilities with confidence.

CDM support for clients, designers and contractors, from early project planning and design-risk coordination through construction and project handover. Hallam Safety Solutions helps dutyholders understand their responsibilities, establish suitable project arrangements, share the right information and maintain effective cooperation throughout the project lifecycle.

Principal Designer Services

Management and coordination of the pre-construction phase

Client CDM Advisory

Support with appointments, arrangements and client duties

Design-Risk Coordination

Identification, communication and management of foreseeable risk

Project Handover

Health and safety file coordination and close-out support

What's Included

Clear CDM support throughout your project.

Hallam Safety Solutions helps establish the arrangements, information and coordination needed to manage health and safety effectively—from early planning through to project handover. The support provided will reflect your role, project structure and specific CDM responsibilities.

Principal Designer Services

Planning, managing, monitoring and coordinating health and safety during the pre-construction phase, with effective liaison between the client, designers and Principal Contractor.

Client CDM Advisory

Guidance for clients on appointments, competence, project arrangements, pre-construction information and maintaining appropriate oversight of dutyholder performance.

Pre-Construction Information

Support with identifying, assembling, reviewing and communicating information required by designers and contractors to plan and manage their work.

Design-Risk Management

Coordination of design-risk reviews and engagement with designers to eliminate foreseeable hazards where possible and reduce or control risks that remain.

Construction-Phase Interface

Liaison with the Principal Contractor to support the effective exchange of design, risk and project information as work progresses.

Health and Safety File

Coordination, review and preparation of the health and safety file so relevant information is captured and provided to the client at project completion.

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Why Hallam Safety Solutions

CDM support grounded in project delivery.

Major Project Experience

Experience supporting complex infrastructure, construction, energy and multi-contractor projects.

Clear Dutyholder Responsibilities

Straightforward guidance on what clients, designers and contractors must do—and where responsibilities interface.

Design-to-Construction Perspective

Consideration of how design decisions affect construction, maintenance, operation and future work.

Proportionate Coordination

CDM arrangements scaled around the project’s complexity, risk profile and delivery model.

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Establish the right CDM support for your project.

Whether your project is at an early planning stage or already progressing, Hallam Safety Solutions can review your requirements, clarify the relevant responsibilities and identify the most appropriate level of support.
Hallam Safety Solutions

Thomas took the time to understand our operation before making a single recommendation. The audit report was clear, practical, and actually useful – not just a list of things we’d done wrong. We had our ISO 45001 certification within 10 weeks of engaging Hallam Safety Solutions.

— James Crawford