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What we do

MPW R&R provides consulting, forensic and expert witness services.  We specialise in construction health and safety / CDM 2015 Regulations, structural safety and organisational risk.

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Who we work with

MPW R&R helps the construction industry and their regulators to manage risk.  If something goes wrong and a project ends in litigation, we can help insurers and legal teams by acting as an Expert Witness.

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Construction Safety

• Advice and training on the use of CDM 2015
• Reviewing how CDM 2015 has been applied
• Forensic investigations
• Evaluating regulatory initiatives
• Acting as an expert witness

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Structural Safety

• Defects, durability, deterioration, safety and service life of concrete structures
• Asset management guidance & standards
• Forensic investigations
• Acting as an expert witness

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Organisational Risk

• Identifying and assessing the key risks
• Running organisational risk diagnostics
• Identifying and prioritising improvement initiatives
• Developing roadmap change plans

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Regulatory

• Helping regulators focus on key risks in their industries
• Evaluating regulatory initiatives
• Reviewing regulatory effectiveness
• Developing new tools to improve effectiveness

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Recent Articles on Construction Health and Safety & CDM 2015

Implementation of the CDM 2015 Principal Designer role - Technical Annex

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Survey to broaden understanding of how the CDM 2015 Principal Designer role is working in practice

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CDM 2015 Designer Duties – Guidance on considering temporary works in permanent works design

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Understanding CDM 2015 Designer Duties – Video & Presentation slides

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CDM 2015 Designer Duties – Designing for maintenance

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HSE improvement and prohibition notices – what do they tell us about CDM 2015 and construction health and safety?

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CDM 2015 Regulations – Resources available on the MPW R&R web site

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CDM 2015 Regulations - Summary of the changes

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CDM 2015 Regulations - Frequently asked questions

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CDM 2015 Regulations - Principal Designer Duties: Resources

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Principal Contractor and Contractor Duties - Clause-by-clause comparison of the CDM 2015 Regulations and CDM 2007

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Client Duties - Clause-by-clause comparison of the CDM 2015 Regulations and CDM 2007

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Designer Duties - Clause-by-clause comparison of the CDM Regulation 2015 and CDM 2007

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Recent articles on Structural Safety

The influence of design and detailing on the safety of deteriorating concrete structures

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Deterioration and defects – what are the risks to the safety and service life of concrete structures?

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Impact of corrosion on the safety and strength of concrete structures – Overview of the mechanisms

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Impact of deterioration on the safety of concrete structures - what can designers do minimise risk?

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Recent articles on Organisational Risk

How to engage boards on health, safety and risk issues

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Board engagement with health and safety risks - why doesn't it always happen?

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Risk Diagnostic and Benchmarking - Why do it?

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Risk Diagnostic and Benchmarking Tool

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7 barriers to effective risk management

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Benchmarking against risk management best practice – how do ‘industry average’ organisations compare?

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Why is it so difficult to assess what factors influence risk in your organisation

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How to assess what factors influence risk in your organisation

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Are you solving the right problems?

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Best practice in risk management – five characteristics of high-performing organisations

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Do you know what factors influence risk in your organisation?

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Recent articles on Regulatory Issues

Reasonable practicability in the age of Coronavirus

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HSE improvement and prohibition notices – what do they tell us about CDM 2015 and construction health and safety?

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The new Sentencing Guidelines one year on: Their impact on the Construction industry

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How Regulators Can Improve Their Effectiveness

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What do best practice construction organisations look like?

Download our Organisational Risk Briefing Note & Diagnostic Tool to find out why things go wrong in organisations and what you can do about it ...

• Learn about the characteristics of organisations where things have gone wrong so that you can avoid them

• Learn about the characteristics of best practice construction organisations and how they vary from ‘average’ organisations

• See how these characteristics map onto the requirements of the CDM 2015 Regulations

• Benchmark your organisation against best practice in construction and run risk diagnostics with our Organisational Risk Benchmarking Tool

• Learn about the importance of mindsets and behaviours in influencing risk and the complexities of assessing them

• Get details of a five-step approach for assessing those mindsets and behaviours and identifying initiatives to change them

• Get advice on implementing those initiatives

Download the Briefing Note & Diagnostic Tool

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