Principal Designer's Handbook

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Title
3. Copyright
4. Contents
5. FOREWORD
   1. About The Association for Project Safety
   2. Acknowledgements
6. INTRODUCTION
   1. Who can be the Principal Designer?
   2. Role requirements
7. 1 THE PRINCIPAL DESIGNER ROLE
   1. 1.1 Role overview
   2. 1.2 Different role responsibilities
   3. 1.3 Commercial projects
   4. 1.4 Domestic projects
   5. 1.5 Partial design service
8. 2 THE PRINCIPAL DESIGNER IN PRACTICE
   1. 2.1 Appointment and fees
   2. 2.2 Pre-Construction Information
   3. 2.3 Pre-Construction Information development
   4. 2.4 General Principles of Prevention
   5. 2.5 Particular risks
   6. 2.6 Design Risk Management
   7. 2.7 Preparing the Health and Safety File
9. 3 LIAISON WITH THE PRINCIPAL CONTRACTOR
   1. 3.1 The Construction Phase
   2. 3.2 Continuing liaison during the Construction Phase
   3. 3.3 The defects liability period
10. 4 STANDARD AND EXEMPLAR DOCUMENTS
    1. 4.1 Resourcing, fees and appointment
    2. 4.2 Pre-Construction Information
    3. 4.3 Design Risk Management
    4. 4.4 Health and Safety File
11. 5 KEY CDM ROLES
    1. 5.1 Précis of the duties of various duty holders under CDM 2015
    2. 5.2 General duties
    3. 5.3 Client
    4. 5.4 Principal Designer (Pre-Construction Phase)
    5. 5.5 Designer
    6. 5.6 Principal Contractor
    7. 5.7 Contractors
    8. 5.8 Workers
    9. 5.9 CDM Adviser
12. REFERENCE
    1. Training and support
    2. Bibliography and reference material