The design and construction of controlled environments is a specialised branch of the construction industry.

As such it requires the knowledgeable application of all current practices, regulations and controls embodied by the current version of the Construction Design & Management Regulations (CDM).

In 1991, long before many companies were taking H&S seriously, CRC engaged a construction industry specialist consultant to help us develop, apply and manage our health and safety operation, throughout all aspects of the Company, but most importantly during on-site activities, correctly regarded as the area of highest risk. We continue to use our consultant to monitor new developments in health and safety law and to assist us in applying it to all of our working procedures. The consultant undertakes in-house H&S training for all CRC contract personnel.

CRC has very broad experience in all aspects of developing CDM H&S plans for every project and produces a H&S CDM project file for every project. We often operate as the "Principal Contractor" for CDM and our policy is to produce CDM documentation for every project as if we are Principal Contractor even if we are not - this achieves the broadest and most comprehensive safety coverage for the work we do.

Our experience is that many clients who approach CRC are initially unaware of their own responsibilities under H&S law. Many projects do not come with a pre-tender H&S plan and clients are often unaware that they need to produce this and engage a planning supervisor under CDM. If required, CRC can arrange for solutions to all of these aspects to enable clients to meet their legal obligations.