Health & Safety
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Construction Design Management
Health & Safety in London, Essex & the Wider South of England | M. L. A.
Welcome to the online home of M.L.A., a team of experienced and skilled health and safety professionals. We help businesses of all sizes expertly navigate modern regulatory requirements across multiple sectors, including construction, the built environment, and general workplaces. Our company operates throughout the South of England but has a national reach, offering traditional risk management, fire risk management, fire safety and construction safety services to businesses across London and beyond.
M.L.A. can be your go-to health, safety, and risk management provider on either a retained or project-specific basis. We are already a vital, trusted, and reliable partner to many businesses across the UK. Trust us with your business's approach to risk management, and we will help ensure both site and workplace safety for your valued employees, clients, and customers.
We are regional specialists in the CDM2015 (Construction Design Management Regulations), and experts in health and safety training.
Areas covered by M.L.A. include:
Berkshire | Essex | Hampshire | Hertfordshire | Kent | Surrey | Sussex | London
Who We Can Help
Over the years, M.L.A. has grown solely on reputation, existing client referrals and a track record of delivery. Our team has an in-depth and ever-growing knowledge across multiple sectors. We consider ourselves experts in construction health and safety, built environment and fire risk management. As a partner, we support businesses across the CDM2015 spectrum, including commercial clients, architects, principal contractors and subcontractors.
We also support organisations operating within the built environment sector, including real estate, property managers, maintenance or facilities management, logistics and many more.
M.L.A offer fire safety guidance and consultancy services to both “responsible” and “accountable” persons under The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order and Building Safety Act.
So, if you are looking for a principal designer or a health and safety partner with the skills, knowledge and experience needed to advise your business, then please get in touch with us or a member of the team.
How We Can Help
Below, we’ve listed some of the ways in which we assist clients in locations such as Berkshire, Essex, London, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Surrey and Sussex. For more information, be sure to navigate our website to the most relevant dedicated service page.
Alternatively, get in touch directly to discuss your requirements.
Principal Designer
The role of a Principal Designer is mandated by the CDM2015 (Construction Design Management Regulations) to coordinate construction health and safety, and to identify, assess and mitigate instances of risk.
A Principal Designer collaborates with those involved in a project, introducing health and safety measures into the design process. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the compilation and maintenance of pre-construction information, the Principal Designer’s risk register and the site health and safety file. Good levels of communication between the Principal Designer and the contractor create the systematic management of construction health and safety, and of all aspects related to design risk management.
Involved from the conceptual phase of a project, the Principal Designer is a key contributor towards safe working conditions in construction, in all aspects of operation and maintenance, and in the demolition of structures.
Client CDM Advisor
The Client CDM Advisor can be a competent and qualified individual or part of an organisation appointed by a contractor to assist in meeting obligations under the CDM2015 (Construction Design Management Regulations). The CDM Advisor’s role is to support contractors with their core responsibilities as a part of a construction project’s health and safety management strategy.
Critical roles of the Client CDM Advisor include:
- Finding competent design specialists and site contractors
- Health and safety management in pre-construction
- The submission and upkeep of F10 notifications
- Fire risk assessment and fire safety review preparation
- Review of construction phase planning for the main contractor
This is a service that M.L.A. provides for clients in Berkshire, Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Surrey, Sussex and all London areas.
Principal Designer Support
The CDM Advisor (or Principal Designer Support) plays an essential role in the CDM2015 (Construction Design Management Regulations) framework, and is responsible for advising, and supporting, architects and lead designers who have been appointed to fulfil the separate role of a Principal Designer.
The support role oversees the legal duties of the Principal Designer in matters relating to pre-construction health and safety, thus providing a more rigorous approach to design, and to risk management and fire risk assessments.
Responsibilities include supporting the compilation and maintenance of pre-construction information, the Principal Designer’s risk register and the site’s health and safety file while promoting good communication between the designers and the contractors through proactive risk management.
The duty of Principal Designer Support is to oversee and manage construction health and safety integration to protect the welfare of key stakeholders.
CDM Compliance Audit
The CDM Compliance Audit examines how clients, designers and contractors adhere to CDM2015 (Construction Design Management Regulations) through systematic evaluation and assessing health and safety during the lifecycle of the project to ensure regulatory compliance. Reviews offer a detailed insight into the legal status of documents, processes and site working practices.
Audits cover the following elements:
- Communication and coordination measures
- Risk management and risk assessments
- Completion of health and safety information
- Development and maintenance of health and safety files
CDM Compliance Audits help main contractors to improve in specific areas which enhance and improve construction health and safety.
We travel throughout the South of England from Surrey, to Sussex, Kent and Essex, provide everything from construction health and safety training to fire risk assessments and general risk management services for public events. Some of the areas we prove most popular in include:
Berkshire – Essex – Hampshire – Hertfordshire – London – Kent – Surrey – Sussex