| For Health and Safety Professionals registered with | | | | required points in on time. Construction health and |
| IOSH it's now a requirement as aprt of the chartered | | | | safety is an interesting one. I've learnt so much from |
| status that CPD is constantly maintaiined and | | | | just being on site and attending design team |
| documented. | | | | meetings. |
| There are a whole host of courses out there with | | | | As a CDM Coordinator it's imperative that we note |
| little or no merit and those that are extremely useful | | | | down what we've learnt so that we can take it onto |
| (not just health and safety courses). | | | | the next project. Having been in the industry 10 |
| Health and Safety Consultants have jumped on the | | | | years there's been an awful lot of note taking. CDM |
| CPD bandwagon and offer anything from one day | | | | is about experiences coupled with theoretical |
| CDM courses to 2 day DSE? I put the question mark | | | | knowledge but you can never really gain from a book |
| there because I'm not sure that DSE merits | | | | what you can in a meeting or discussion on site. |
| anywhere near 2 days of our time. Health and Safety | | | | There a re plenty of perople in construction who |
| Professionals associate CPD with attendance at | | | | have great experience. |
| costly courses. However CPD is a mixture of both | | | | As chartered professionals we should be maintaining |
| courses, reading maetrial and everyday experiences | | | | this level of attention to CPD to really demonstrate |
| that give you the base knowledge. | | | | our skills but sadly this is done enough. |
| We do things in our everyday lives that contribute | | | | I've just put a powerpoint presentation together on |
| towards CPD, attendance at presentations, giving | | | | the merits of the CDM regs for an Architectural |
| presentations, reading industry literature. the problem | | | | practice this was certainly worth a few CD points |
| is we dont note these things down enough and its | | | | anyway. |
| always a last minute panic to ensure that we get the | | | | |