Principal Designer Role & Advisory Support
Our collaborative and proactive approach helps to integrate health and safety into both the design and construction process, adding value and reassurance for our clients. We can act as duty holders on your behalf or provide targeted support to those already fulfilling these roles.
MAST Safety can deliver the full duty holder Principal Designer (PD) role, taking responsibility for planning, managing, monitoring, and coordinating health and safety in the pre-construction phase.
Where you already have a Principal Designer in place, we can provide PD advisory services to support them in discharging their duties, including:
- Reviewing existing design risk management arrangements.
- Supporting design reviews and design risk workshops.
- Providing specialist health and safety input into design decisions.
- Helping to coordinate information between designers, contractors, and the Client.
Our goal is to integrate health and safety into design in a way that is practical, proportionate, and aligned with your project objectives.
Planning a project under CDM 2015?
Tell us about your project and we will explain how we can support your duty holders, from pre-construction through to completion.
CDM Client Advisor Services
We can help you, as the Client, to discharge your duties under CDM 2015 by acting as a CDM Client Advisor throughout the project.
Typical activities include:
- F10 notification: Preparing and uploading the F10 notification to the HSE on your behalf.
- Competency assessments: Assessing designer and contractor competence and capability.
- Construction Phase Plan reviews: Reviewing Construction Phase Plans to ensure they are suitable and sufficient.
- Monitoring and inspections: Undertaking on-site inspections of the Principal Contractor to verify CDM compliance and provide clear, actionable feedback.
This support gives Clients confidence that their legal duties are being met and that appropriate arrangements are in place from project start to completion.
Our Collaborative Approach
At MAST Safety, we aim to become an extension of your project team, working closely with Clients, Principal Designers, Designers, and Contractors to achieve safe, compliant, and efficient projects.
Our approach is:
- Collaborative: We work with all parties to find solutions that support design quality, buildability, and safety.
- Proactive: We focus on early identification and management of risks, rather than reacting to issues later on site.
- Practical: Our advice is grounded in real project experience across multiple sectors, ensuring it is realistic and achievable.
If you already work with us through our Health & Safety Consultancy services, we can seamlessly integrate CDM support into your existing arrangements.
CDM Support for All Duty Holders
We also offer a range of CDM-related services for Clients, Designers, and Contractors who are striving for best practice and enhanced project performance. These include:
Client CDM management arrangements gap analysis
- Reviewing your existing arrangements against CDM requirements.
- Identifying gaps and developing practical improvement plans.
- Producing supporting documentation to embed best practice.
Document development and awareness training
- Developing or updating CDM procedures, templates, and guidance.
- Delivering tailored awareness sessions for all CDM duty holders.
CDM awareness training (all duty holders)
- Focused training for Clients, Principal Designers, Designers, Principal Contractors, and Contractors.
- Helping your teams understand their roles, responsibilities, and interfaces with others.
Principal Designer health and safety in design strategy development
- Supporting the PD to create a clear, project-specific strategy for managing health and safety in design.
- Embedding risk management into the design process and documentation.
CDM compliance verification audits (pre-construction)
- Auditing pre-construction arrangements to verify compliance before work starts on site.
- Providing clear reports, action plans, and follow-up support.
Enhanced construction phase monitoring and reporting
- Ongoing monitoring of CDM compliance during the construction phase.
- Producing structured reports, dashboards, and trend analysis to track performance and demonstrate improvement over time.
Related services
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Discuss your CDM project
Tell us about the project, the duty holder role you need filling and where you are in the programme, and we will set out how we can support you and what it will cost.