By provision for the end user, Wee B, you will see that I am referring to cleaning and maintenance - in as much as the end user will be responsible for ordering cleaning and maintenance or using his/her own employees for that purpose. In schools this will usually involve caretakers, engineers and the like.
The fire safety provision requirement is for those constructing the building - although there may be a connection with the end user during the construction phase where the CDM work is within an occupied building or will otherwise affect the end user's fire safety arrangements (eg with an extension to an occupied building).
Beyond the CDM Regs (but in construction work to which those Regs apply), the contractual duties of designers, architects, principal contractors, etc remain to provide a finished product that meets the client's requirements whilst satisfying Building Regs, etc and once occupied by an employer, the RRO and various Regs under the HASAW Act come into play - so it is particularly important for a client who is not the end user to order a building that will be adequate for the end user in those respects. This can be where many problems arise where the end user is not involved in the preparation of the specifications or is left out of consultations between the client and others. Design and Build can be a real problem in this respect. It will be interesting to see how the new Co-ordinator's role will work out in practice - as compared with that of the existing Planning Supervisor.
