CDM software for UK construction projects

CDM 2015 organised by project, not by folder

Under CDM 2015 every construction project has dutyholders, and most have documents that have to exist and be kept: the construction phase plan, risk assessments and method statements, and, where there is more than one contractor, a health and safety file. The regulations do not ask for software, but they do ask you to plan, manage and coordinate the work and to keep proportionate records. Doing that across email, spreadsheets and a site folder is where things go missing.

Featherstone Safety Hub gives every project its own workspace. You record the client, principal designer and principal contractor, note whether the project is notifiable and hold the F10 details, and build the plans, assessments and inspection records against that project rather than in a shared drive. When a client, principal contractor or the HSE asks what you have, it is already together.

• Dutyholder record: capture client, principal designer, principal contractor and contractors against each project.
• F10 notification details: record whether a project is notifiable and hold the notification reference in one place.
• Construction phase plan: draft, review, approve, issue and version the CPP for each project.
• RAMS and inspections: risk assessments, method statements, site inspections and corrective actions, all linked to the job.
• Health and safety file information: keep the records you need to hand over at the end organised as you go.

Everyone on the job, coordinated

CDM is about coordination as much as paperwork. Featherstone Safety Hub tracks workforce competence and cards with expiry dates, runs digital site inductions, holds subcontractor approvals with a secure portal so contractors and clients see only what they should, keeps a plant and equipment register with LOLER, PUWER and PAT certificates, issues permits to work for high-risk tasks, and records toolbox talks and briefings with attendance. The people, plant and high-risk work on the project are managed in the same system as the plans.

An audit trail you did not have to assemble

Because records are created against the project as work happens, the evidence builds itself rather than being pulled together the night before a client audit or an HSE visit. Executive dashboards and printable registers let you see, and export, the current picture across every project. The software supports your record keeping and decision making; approvals and verification remain human decisions, and legal responsibility stays with the dutyholders.