June 2018 - The Institute of Construction Management

The LABC 10 point plan to progress the Hackitt recommendations

Written by David on June 28, 2018. Posted in General Interest, Safety, The ICM Blog. 1 Comment

Some of the main recommendations and conclusions The report comes almost one year after the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 71 people and injured a further 70. Some of the main recommendations and conclusions set out in the final report include: Setting up a new regulatory framework for all high-rise...

‘New site safety role’

Written by David on June 28, 2018. Posted in Safety, The ICM Blog. Leave a Comment

Building Safety Manager A 'Super CDM' professional role ... ... requires a “gelling of competences” ... Construction projects will require a new role that combines several existing competences in order to meet a single, overarching set of safety requirements in the future – if the Hackitt recommendations...

Louise Taggart named SHP’s Most Influential person in health & safety for 2018

Written by David on June 21, 2018. Posted in General Interest, Safety, The ICM Blog. Leave a Comment

Louise Taggart has topped the SHP poll as ‘Most Influential’ for her work highlighting the personal cost of lax health & safety ... Louise was an employment lawyer in Scotland until personal tragedy led her into the field of health & safety ... the sad death of her younger brother Michael,...

The LABC 10 point plan to progress the Hackitt recommendations

Written by David on June 20, 2018. Posted in Fire Safety, Safety, The ICM Blog. Leave a Comment

LABC has spent 18 months working on its 10 point plan, investing in standards, competencies and qualifications, drawing on expert advice from the Chartered Institute of Building, the Institution of Fire Engineers and the University of Wolverhampton ... What LABC has done Launched an all new National...

What’s the shape of ‘Competence’ eh!

Written by David on June 7, 2018. Posted in Fire Safety, Safety, The ICM Blog. Leave a Comment

Questions: who's design is this? - erh, would YOU do that? So, how many local authorities/ tenants associations/ building companies/ architects etc around the country are looking at photos coming out in the media and thinking "oh - but we did that/ we've just done that on Project X ......" The Judge...

Building a Safer Future Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety: Final Report

Written by David on June 2, 2018. Posted in Safety, The ICM Blog. Leave a Comment

A principled approach "At the heart of this report are the principles for a new regulatory framework which will drive real culture change and the right behaviours. We need to adopt a very different approach to the regulatory framework covering the design, construction and maintenance of high-rise...

Month: June 2018

The LABC 10 point plan to progress the Hackitt recommendations

‘New site safety role’

Louise Taggart named SHP’s Most Influential person in health & safety for 2018

The LABC 10 point plan to progress the Hackitt recommendations

What’s the shape of ‘Competence’ eh!

Building a Safer Future Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety: Final Report

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