CDM REGULATIONS

After almost four years of working closely with the Health & Safety Executive (HSE), via cross-association member working groups, sector committees, one-to-one meetings and industry forums, we’re very happy to be at a stage where we can now inform and educate the industry. We have a dedicated CDM website and app with resources all geared towards giving people and their businesses the information and tools necessary to understand and comply with Construction, Design & Management (CDM) regulations.

The Construction, Design & Management (CDM) Regulations do not replace any existing law but are intended to provide a framework to help organisations within the event industry understand and meet the minimum safety requirements of CDM.

CDM Regulations   CDM 4 Events website    HSE website

The Construction, Design & Management (CDM) Regulations do not replace any existing law but are intended to provide a framework to help organisations within the event industry understand and meet the minimum safety requirements of CDM.

The AEO, AEV and ESSA trade associations are managed by the EIA secretariat. EIA advocates that members of all three associations work within or beyond the requirements of UK law. Where a British Standard, HSE Guidance, Approved Code of Practice, other central or local government guidance or examples of case law suggest that specific working methods or standards are needed to meet the requirements of UK law, the EIA advocates that members adopt these.

In instances where groups of members wish to collaborate on finding alternative, but equally as safe, methods of work that they feel are more suited to the operational constraints of the event industry than those described elsewhere, the EIA will facilitate that collaboration and any benchmarking or HAZOP activity that is required, advise members of their specific duties and liabilities and where requested publish their findings, typically within the eGuide.

The EIA cannot and does not, however officially, advocate any standard or working practice other than those produced by HSE, BSI or other Government agencies and offices, whether published within the eGuide or not, and reminds all organisations, members and non-members alike, that it is their individual responsibility to assess the risks of their work and to establish practices that comply with the law and that prevent work related injury and ill-health.