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# MPW R&R

MPW R&R - Consulting, Forensic and Expert Witness Services for Construction and Structural Safety, CDM, Risk and Regulatory

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## Posts

- [Blog](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/blog/)
- [Implementation of the CDM 2015 Principal Designer role - Technical Annex](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/implementation-of-the-cdm-2015-principal-designer-role/) - HSE appointed MPW R&R to undertake research into the CDM 2015 Principal Designer role. The findings are available on HSE's web site and the Technical Annex is available to download on this web page.
- [CDM 2015 - Principal Designer Duties: Resources](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/cdm-2015-principal-designer-duties-resources/) - In this article, Mike Webster provides a summary of published discussions on key issues relating to the CDM 2015 Principal Designer duties. It will provide insight into and training on this new role introduced in the CDM 2015 Regulations. The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM) are the primary regulations for managing the health, safety
- [Survey to broaden understanding of how the CDM 2015 Principal Designer role is working in practice](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/hse-cdm-2015-principal-designer-survey/) - This survey is being conducted for HSE who are launching this important new research to broaden understanding of how the CDM 2015 Principal Designer role is working in practice (both the benefits and challenges). HSE has appointed MPW R&R to undertake this research, and we are inviting you to take part in this crucial survey
- [CDM 2015 Regulations - Frequently asked questions](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/cdm-2015-faq/) - In this article, Mike Webster provides a summary of published discussions on key issues and answers to frequently asked questions relating to the CDM 2015 Regulations. The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM) are the primary regulations for managing the health, safety and welfare of all construction projects in Great Britain. CDM 2007 has been
- [CDM 2015 Designer Duties – Considering temporary works in permanent works design](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/cdm-2015-designer-duties-temporary-works/) - CDM 2015 Regulation 9 requires Designers to eliminate, reduce or control the risks through design. Where it is not possible to eliminate risks, they should provide information on the significant residual risks that could not be designed out. As part of this, permanent works designers are expected to understand how the structure can be
- [Reasonable practicability in the age of Coronavirus](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/reasonable-practicability-in-the-age-of-coronavirus/) - This article considers the impact that the Coronavirus pandemic is having on the concept of 'reasonable practicability' in relation to compliance with health and safety legislation. In particular, it addresses tolerable risk, use of guidance, face coverings, risk assessments and what employers should do to demonstrate that they are doing all that is 'reasonably practicable'.
- [CDM 2015 Regulations  - Summary of the changes](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/cdm-2015-summary-of-changes/) - In this article, Mike Webster provides a brief summary of eight key changes to the CDM 2015 Regulations from CDM 2007 and what those changes mean in practice. The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM) are the primary regulations for managing the health, safety and welfare of all construction projects in Great Britain. CDM 2007
- [CDM 2015 Designer Duties – Designing for maintenance](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/cdm-2015-designer-duties-maintenance/) - CDM 2015 Regulation 9 requires designers to eliminate or reduce risks to those involved in maintenance so far as reasonably practical or, if that isn't possible, to provide information on significant residual risks. Designers may not be aware of the guidance available to help them. To address that, this article by Mike Webster provides an overview
- [Understanding CDM 2015 Designer Duties](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/understanding-cdm-2015-designer-duties/) - I gave a presentation at the Institution of Structural Engineers Small Practitioners Conference on 26 June 2018. That presentation focused on understanding the CDM 2015 Designer Duties. This post contains the video of my presentation. The slides can also be downloaded. Watch the presentation This presentation is split into two parts, and covers: Part 1: The
- [Board engagement with health and safety risks - why doesn't it always happen?](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/board-engagement-with-health-and-safety-risks/) - This article summarises key reasons why board engagement with health and safety risks does not always happen. The lessons from landmark incidents are discussed, and common causes for non-engagement are identified. To gain a better understanding of these causes, we delve into what lies beneath them. To provide a perspective, we also highlight what leadership and
- [How to engage boards on health, safety and risk issues](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/how-to-engage-boards-on-health-safety-and-risk-issues/) - This article suggests a range of ways to engage boards on health, safety and risk issues. Our suggestions are a combination of 'nudges' and 'shoves'. They recognise the potential barriers to engagement that we identified in an earlier article, and are aimed at addressing those barriers. This article was published in the March 2016 edition of the IOSH Magazine.
- [Deterioration and defects – what are the risks to the safety and service life of concrete structures?](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/deterioration-defects-risks-safety-service-life-concrete-structures/) - Concrete structures can be affected by a range of defects and deterioration. These can impact on both the safety and service life of structures. The most common forms of defects and deterioration that may occur in concrete structures, how they occur and what the potential effects on structural safety and service life are discussed in
- [Impact of deterioration on the safety of concrete structures - what can designers do to minimise risk?](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/impact-of-deterioration-on-the-safety-of-concrete-structures-designers/) - This article discusses the impact of deterioration on the safety of concrete structures. This is illustrated by examples where deterioration has led concrete structures to collapse. The article suggests steps that designers can take to minimise the risks of deterioration to safety and discharge their duties under the CDM 2015 Regulations. Introduction Concrete structures deteriorate with time, typically as a
- [The influence of design and detailing on the safety of deteriorating concrete structures](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/influence-of-design-and-detailing-on-safety-of-deteriorating-concrete-structures/) - Concrete structures will deteriorate when exposed to severe environments. This deterioration can lead to risks to the safety of deteriorating concrete structures. In this article, Mike Webster discusses the behaviour of deteriorating concrete structures to provide a qualitative understanding of what contributes to safety. To illustrate the points, the resistance of concrete structures to deterioration is treated
- [Impact of corrosion on the safety and strength of concrete structures – Summary of the mechanisms](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/impact-of-corrosion-on-safety-strength-concrete-structures/) - Reinforced concrete structures degrade with time and exposure to the environment, particularly if that environment contains salts. That degradation can lead reinforcement to corrode, and this can affect the safety and load-carrying capacity of concrete structures. The data from existing research were reviewed to produce an overview of the structural effects of chloride-induced corrosion on reinforced concrete structures.
- [The new Sentencing Guidelines one year on: Their impact on the Construction industry](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/the-new-sentencing-guidelines-one-year-on-their-impact-on-the-construction-industry/) - The conviction data available on HSE’s web site has been analysed to assess the impact of the first year of the new Sentencing Guidelines on organisations and individuals working in the construction industry who have been convicted of breaches of health and safety legislation. Comparisons have been made with the last year of the old Guidelines. These
- [HSE improvement and prohibition notices - what do they tell us about CDM 2015 and construction health and safety?](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/hse-enforcement-notices-cdm-2015-construction-health-safety/) - The improvement and prohibition notices data provided on the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) web site have been analysed to establish where HSE identified potential breaches in construction projects. These analyses were carried for 2016/17 – the first full year where CDM 2015 was the primary construction regulation in its own right. Key Points These analyses
- [Do you know what factors influence risk in your organisation?](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/many-factors-influence-risk/) - When something goes wrong, it’s because a number of factors aren’t working - do you know what factors influence risk in your organisation?. This post discusses a range of examples from high profile incidents and introduces an approach for identifying and assessing the factors that influence organisational risk. When something goes wrong in an organisation,
- [Best practice in risk management – five characteristics of high-performing organisations](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/five-characteristics-bprm/) - This post identifies five characteristics of high-performing organisations with best practice in risk management and discusses those characteristics with examples. Some organisations manage risk successfully - they represent best practice in risk management. If the majority of organisations could raise their performance to the levels of their high-performing peers that could lead to significant improvements
- [Are You Solving the Right Problems?](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/solving-right-problems/) - We all solve problems most days. This post provides 4 reasons why we may not always be solving the right problems and a simple approach to make sure we do. We all solve problems most days. Some are minor problems, whereas others are more fundamental. However, I would like to pose the question: ‘Are we
- [How Regulators Can Improve Their Effectiveness](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/regulators-can-improve-effectiveness/) - This post suggests an approach for regulators to improve cost-effectiveness by focusing on high-risk areas to protect people whilst minimising burden. Regulation can have a positive effect in protecting us (as workers, individuals, consumers, patients, etc.), but it may also have a negative effect in terms of the burdens imposed on the businesses and professionals
- [Principal Contractor and Contractor Duties - Clause-by-clause comparison of the CDM 2015 Regulations and CDM 2007](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/principal-contractor-and-contractor-duties-cdm-2015-v-cdm-2007/) - Download a note prepared by Mike Webster that identifies, clause-by-clause, the changes in the Principal Contractor and Contractor duties in the CDM 2015 regulations compared to those in CDM 2007, so making it easier to comply. The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015) govern the management of health, safety and welfare when undertaking
- [Client Duties - Clause-by-clause comparison of the CDM 2015 Regulations and CDM 2007](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/client-duties-cdm-2015-v-cdm-2007/) - Download a note prepared by Mike Webster that identifies, clause-by-clause, the changes in the Client duties in the CDM 2015 regulations compared to those in CDM 2007, so making it easier to comply. The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015) govern the management of health, safety and welfare when undertaking construction projects in Great
- [Designer Duties - Clause-by-clause comparison of the CDM 2015 Regulations and CDM 2007](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/designer-duties-cdm-2015-v-cdm-2007/) - Download a note prepared by Mike Webster that identifies, clause-by-clause, the changes in the Designer duties in the CDM 2015 regulations compared to those in CDM 2007, so making it easier to comply. The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015) govern the management of health, safety and welfare when undertaking construction projects in Great
- [Why is it so difficult to assess what factors influence risk in your organisation?](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/difficult-to-assess-what-factors-influence-risk/) - This article discusses why organisations’ susceptibility to risk is largely determined by the mindsets and behaviours of their staff and the difficulties this causes in assessing what factors influence risk. A methodology is proposed that recognises that incidents are caused by a complex combination of events that do not happen in isolation. This methodology enables
- [How to assess what factors influence risk in your organisation](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/how-to-assess-what-factors-influence-risk/) - This is Part 2 of a two-part article, and proposes a solution to the problem of how to assess what factors influence risk in organisations. The proposed approach recognises that incidents are caused by a complex combination of events that do not happen in isolation. It enables organisations to understand what factors really influence risk.
- [Benchmarking against risk management best practice – how do ‘industry average’ organisations compare?](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/benchmark-risk-best-practice/) - This post contains a comparison of the differences between organisations with best practice in risk management and those whose practice is the industry average. This post shows that the quality of those factors which influence risk is higher and less variable in best practice organisations. Different factors are more important to the ‘best practice’ organisations
- [Risk Diagnostic and Benchmarking Tool](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/risk-diagnostic-and-benchmarking-tool/) - This post discusses what organisations can gain from undertaking risk diagnostic and benchmarking studies. We have made a version of our risk diagnostic and benchmarking tool available for free download so that you can can identify the gaps in your organisation and benchmark your organisation against best practice. The need for a risk diagnostic and
- [Risk Diagnostics and Benchmarking - Why do it?](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/risk-diagnostics-and-benchmarking-why-do-it/) - This article summarises the key business questions that risk diagnostics and risk benchmarking answer. This will allow organisations to decide if either technique would be useful to them. Introduction We see mentions of risk diagnostics and risk benchmarking and our typical questions are along the lines of: Why would we want to do that? and/or Is that something we should be
- [CDM 2015 - Resources available on the MPW R&R web site](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/cdm-2015-resources/) - This article contains a collection downloads comparing CDM 2007 and CDM 2015 prepared by Dr Mike Webster, along with published discussions on key issues relating to the CDM 2015 Regulations. It will provide insight into and training on the use of these regulations. The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM) are the primary regulations for
- [7 barriers to effective risk management](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/7-barriers-to-effective-risk-management/) - Over the years, I have noticed a range of barriers that can prevent organisations managing risk effectively. In this article, I have collected together seven of these barriers and discussed both their effect on organisations and how to overcome them. Examples are presented to illustrate the barriers. Barrier 1: An institutional culture which put more

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- [Home](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/) - MPW R&R provides consulting, forensic and expert witness services. We specialise in construction & structural safety, CDM 2015, risk and regulatory issues.
- [Construction Health and Safety & CDM 2015](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/construction-safety-risk-cdm-2015/) - MPW R&R provides advice, consultancy, training, and develop guidance to help construction organisations understand what is required of them so that they can comply cost effectively with CDM 2015 and manage construction health and safety risks. We also help solicitors and their clients with independent and objective opinion by acting as an expert witness. The
- [Publications](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/publications/) - Dr Mike Webster has produced a range of documents over the years. Many have been published and are available for download - their details are shown on this page. Mike also publishes articles and other information via the MPW R&R blog pages - see the side bar for a list of his blog posts. Click on the following
- [Expert Witness](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/expert-witness/) - Dr Mike Webster BEng, MSc, PhD, DIC, CEng, FICE, FIStructE is regularly instructed as an expert witness in cases involving construction safety, structural safety, CDM 2015, corporate manslaughter, gross negligence manslaughter, enforcement notice appeals and construction-related personal injury. He has been instructed by legal teams for both prosecution and defence. His instructions have been for
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- [About](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/about/) - Dr Mike Webster BEng, MSc, PhD, DIC, CEng, FICE, FIStructE Director Dr Mike Webster is a chartered engineer with over 30 years’ experience. He is a Fellow of both the Institution of CivilEngineers and the Institution of Structural Engineers. He specialises in construction and structural safety, CDM and risk, and founded MPW R&R to provide
- [Regulator Solutions](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/regulator-solutions/) - We help regulators improve their regulatory effectiveness by targeting their activities and resources in the most cost-effective ways. The 2013 Regulators' Code requires regulators to promote proportionate, consistent and targeted regulatory activity. In the quest for effective regulation, the Government is also committed to reducing regulatory burdens and supporting compliant business growth. However, many regulators
- [Organisational Risk](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/organisational-risk/) - We provide risk management solutions for organisations in construction and other high risk sectors to help them improve performance, reduce risk, gain from regulatory compliance and be cost-effective. We help them manage technical, human and organisational risks by identifying their key risks and understanding the influences on risk resulting from people, culture and systems. Good
- [Structural Safety and Service Life of Concrete Structures](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/concrete-structures-safety-service-life/) - MPW R&R provides advice, consultancy, training, and develop guidance to help organisations manage risks to the safety and service life of concrete structures. We can also help solicitors, insurers and loss adjusters with independent and objective opinion by acting as an expert witness. Concrete structures are valuable infrastructure assets. However, they may suffer from poor design, construction and
- [Download our Organisational Risk Briefing Note and Diagnostic Tool](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/organisational-risk-access/) - Enter your email address to: 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
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- [Download our Organisational Risk Report and Benchmarking Tool](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/organisational-risk-download/) - You can get a copies of our report Do you understand what factors influence risk in your organisation? and the accompanying Organisational Risk Benchmarking Tool below. I hope you find them useful. You can download your copy of the report by right-clicking on the image to the right or on the link below and selecting
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## Downloads

- [MPW R&R - HSE CDM 2015 Principal Designer Research - Technical Annex](http://mpwrandr.co.uk/download/18682/?tmstv=1789211021) - MPW R&R - HSE CDM 2015 Principal Designer Research - Technical Annex
- [Understanding CDM 2015 Designer Duties - Slides](http://mpwrandr.co.uk/download/5043/?tmstv=1789211021)
- [HSE improvement and prohibition notices: what do they tell us about CDM 2015 and construction health and safety?](http://mpwrandr.co.uk/download/3975/?tmstv=1789211021)
- [The new Sentencing Guidelines one year on: Their impact on the Construction industry](http://mpwrandr.co.uk/download/3621/?tmstv=1789211021)
- [03 - MPW R&R - CDM 2015 vs CDM 2007 - Principal Contractor & Contractor v2.0.pdf](http://mpwrandr.co.uk/download/3386/?tmstv=1789211021)
- [Do you understand what factors influence risk in your organisation?](http://mpwrandr.co.uk/download/2303/?tmstv=1789211021)
- [Organisational Risk Diagnostic Tool](http://mpwrandr.co.uk/download/2309/?tmstv=1789211021)
- [01 - MPW R&R - CDM 2015 vs CDM 2007 - Designers v2.0.pdf](http://mpwrandr.co.uk/download/1977/?tmstv=1789211021)
- [02 - MPW R&R - CDM 2015 vs CDM 2007 - Clients v2.0.pdf](http://mpwrandr.co.uk/download/1871/?tmstv=1789211021)
- [03 - MPW R&R - CDM 2015 vs CDM 2007 - Principal Contractor & Contractor.pdf](http://mpwrandr.co.uk/download/1573/?tmstv=1789211021)
- [01 - MPW R&R - CDM 2015 vs CDM 2007 - Designer v1.0](http://mpwrandr.co.uk/download/1399/?tmstv=1789211021)
- [02 - MPW R&R - CDM 2015 vs CDM 2007 - Clients.pdf](http://mpwrandr.co.uk/download/1493/?tmstv=1789211021)

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- [Organisational risk](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/category/organisational-risk/)
- [Human factors](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/category/human-factors/)
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- [Risk management](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/category/risk-management/)
- [Regulatory effectiveness](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/category/regulatory-effectiveness/)
- [Concrete deterioration](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/category/concrete-deterioration/)
- [Leadership](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/category/leadership/)
- [Durability](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/category/durability/)
- [Structural safety](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/category/structural-safety/)
- [Sentencing](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/category/sentencing/)
- [Enforcement](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/category/enforcement/)
- [Designer duties](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/category/designer-duties/)
- [Temporary works](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/category/temporary-works/)
- [Covid-19](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/category/covid-19/)
- [Principal Designer](https://mpwrandr.co.uk/category/principal-designer/)