The CDM ToolKit CS™ product includes features specific to CDM, along with standard features which are shared with our Asbestos management software.

CDM ToolKit CS™ allows any number of users to initiate project detail, edit template based documents and add a multiplicity of attachments for the management of the CDM process including the provision of the Form 10, Pre-Construction Information, Construction Phase Plan, and Health & Safety File. All documents and reports can be formatted as required to meet corporate style requirements.

The heart of ToolKit CS™ is a database with its own document management system. The single database always knows where to find the latest audited version of documents and management information.

CDM Project Wizard

CDM ToolKit CS™ is well served with wizards; they make the user's experience easy and straightforward whilst presenting the full package of choices available at any point in the process. New users will find the Project Wizard very simple to use irrespective of the size of the installation or of the project. A full choice of 'New', 'Replica' and 'Template' projects is presented as a starting point so that the project creation process is as concise as possible.

'Is the Project Notifiable?' tool

As part of the Project Wizard, we have devised a tool for occasional users who may not know the CDM Regulations well, but who still need to work out the regulatory requirements early on. A basic online version of the tool is available here as well as in CDM ToolKit CS™.

CDM Knowledge Base

The ToolKit CS™ Knowledge Centre allows users to create their library based information and to provide pre-prepared templates for new projects based on the extensive data provided.

Exceeding 80,000 words, the included knowledge base is a carefully researched and updated source of information about the entire CDM process including about 100 hazard related topics 'in plain English'.

CDM Management Console

The management routines include consoles that analyze the entire database to provide early warning of non-compliance with the HSE's regulations and issues that need addressing relating to competence.

The CDM Console provides quick access to all current projects plus statistics on those sites without notification (F10), or other documentation that is overdue for completion.

Tasking, organisation and competency statistics are provided plus details of risk assessments created or carried out over time.

Enterprise Web Interface

Users of the Enterprise version can access CDM ToolKit CS™ via their web browsers on a permission basis.

Users can access CDM data and download Project and Structure documents as required, as well as uploading new documents and drawings as required.

Electronic Health & Safety File

During the lifetime of a structure (such as a School, Bridge, etc), many CDM Projects may be carried out.

To simplify the management of the Health & Safety File under the CDM Regulations 2007, projects can be grouped within individual structures, providing a single Health & Safety File across related projects.

Risk Assessment

Risk assessment is central to the CDM process. CDM ToolKit CS™ includes a substantial Risk Assessment module backed by the knowledge base to help users through the hazard and risk identification and assessment process in a structured way.

Alternatively, single flat forms can be set up as templates or copied in from external sources as required.

Drawings & Documents Register

Any number (and any type) of drawings or other documents (or external files) can be added to the Registers area within each CDM project.

The contents of these registers can be easily attached or embedded into Health & Safety Files and other documentation.

Tasking, Letters and Messaging

CDM ToolKit CS™ includes extensive communications modules including tasking similar to Microsoft Outlook and a letters module with mail merge facilities.

Messaging includes links to e-mail packages and the ability to drag/drop emails and attachments from Microsoft Outlook, directly into any project or structure. Users have ample tools to allow them to manage their communications effectively from anywhere within the ToolKit™.

Document Templates, Editor, Version Control and History

The document management package included in CDM ToolKit CS™ is very much like Microsoft Word.

It is enhanced with features that allow automated embedding of project and other data directly into any document, allowing users to maintain and enhance their own template documents and regular reports, with layouts created in your own corporate style.

Standard CDM documents such as the Pre-Construction Information and Health & Safety File, present topics from the knowledge base alongside the document to prompt new users with the information they need to include.

Documents can be output in a variety of file formats, emailed, or simply printed. Versions can be saved and recalled at any time, with an audit trail provided as standard.

Competency Recording

Competence is another issue central to the CDM regulations. The HSE have been un-prescriptive in what they require apart from the basic need for competence in skills knowledge, ability, resources and systems.

CDM ToolKit CS™ gives users the opportunity to not only use this approach but to enhance it with their own assessments. These can be in any format and attached as documents if required.

Competence can be monitored with review dates and reminders which are part of the management console. This is to ensure that competence issues are kept up to date and that the organisation's liability in this regard is minimised.

Contractor Competence

CDM ToolKit CS™ includes an automated link to the Contractor Health and Safety Assessment Scheme. CHAS are dedicated to completing health & safety pre-qualification assessments to a nationally recognised and accepted threshold standard.

CHAS is a founder member and current Chair of Safety Schemes in Procurement (SSIP).

Search Engine

Fundamentally, ToolKit CS™ is a database; not just a document management system with an excellent knowledge base. This means that users can, with the help of our powerful search engine, research their ToolKit™ database to answer their day to day CDM or asbestos management software needs.

The search engine can be set to search for documents, project, site or structure data, competence records, or simply search the knowledge base for relevant information, on duties, hazard related topics and so on. This puts significant 'power' in front of users at the touch of a button, saving time, energy and stress by resolving issues quickly and efficiently from a single point of reference; ToolKit CS™.

Data Exchange Tool

The data exchange tool allows CDM ToolKit CS™ users to import data into their database from third party applications and hand held devices. In addition, complete projects and structures can be transferred between different installations of the software, allowing external parties to easily provide documents and other information to your CDM projects.

Permissions Module

Administrators can set up groups of users with permissions to access, read and edit data. Set up correctly, the system can be run so that a small group of internal personnel maintain the database and a large group of external personnel access the data on a read only or need to know basis.

Audit Trail

A major requirement of a management system is the provision of an audit trail so that past activities are traceable. ToolKit CS™ has been designed around this principle. The system administrator can access the system audit whenever required.

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