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Safety in Design: Key Concepts & Benefits

Safety in design involves integrating safety controls early in the design process to eliminate or minimize risks throughout the structure's lifecycle. It is not designers taking responsibility for construction safety or informing contractors of typical risks. The benefits of safety in design include reduced risks, costs, and accidents across all lifecycle phases from design to disposal. Legislation requires designers to ensure structures are safe for all who may interact with it during its lifecycle. Failure to consider safety in design can result in increased costs, safety incidents, and regulatory issues. Designers should conduct risk assessments, consult all stakeholders, and apply guidance from standards and codes of practice to comply with their safety duties.

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Safety in Design: Key Concepts & Benefits

Safety in design involves integrating safety controls early in the design process to eliminate or minimize risks throughout the structure's lifecycle. It is not designers taking responsibility for construction safety or informing contractors of typical risks. The benefits of safety in design include reduced risks, costs, and accidents across all lifecycle phases from design to disposal. Legislation requires designers to ensure structures are safe for all who may interact with it during its lifecycle. Failure to consider safety in design can result in increased costs, safety incidents, and regulatory issues. Designers should conduct risk assessments, consult all stakeholders, and apply guidance from standards and codes of practice to comply with their safety duties.

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SAFETY IN DESIGN

Brad Matthews – Senior Consultant


GCG Health Safety Hygiene
WHAT IS SAFETY IN DESIGN

Safety in Design means “the integration of control measures early in the


design process to eliminate or, if this is not reasonable practicable,
minimise risks to health and safety throughout the life of the structure
being designed.”

• About unusual construction issues associated with the design


• Part of a wider set of design objectives, including practicability,
aesthetics, cost and functionality
WHAT IT IS NOT…..

designers taking an listing all the typical


active safety role hazards that a client
DURING would be reasonably
construction. expected to know

telling a contractor
liability of designers
of risks they would
in case accidents
be reasonably
occur
expected to know
LIFECYCLE PHASES OF SAFE DESIGN

Design Construction Operation Maintenance Disposal


BENEFITS OF SAFETY IN DESIGN

Lifecycle Phase WHS Benefit Project Benefit


Design • Risks Identified • Reduced re-design or retrofitting
• Risks reduced/controlled • Reduced lifecycle OHS costs
Construction • Communication of residual risks to • Informed contractor reduces risk contingency
contractor • Increased time and cost certainty
• Reduced likelihood of accidents
Operation • Occupant Health & Safety • Reduced costs (absence & claims)
• Public Health & Safety • Company image - Reduced civil claims
Maintenance & • Safe access for maintenance and repair • Informed contractor reduces risk contingency
Repair strategies • Reduction in maintenance costs
• Reduced likelihood of accidents • Reduction in repair costs
Demolition / • Communication of residual risks to the • Informed contractor reduces risk contingency
Refurbishment contractor • Increased time and costs certainty
• Reduced likelihood of unplanned events
OPPORTUNITY TO INFLUENCE SAFETY OUTCOMES
LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK
WHS ACT 2011 (QLD)

Section 22 (WHS Act) – Duty of Designers to ensure that designed plant


substance or structure is without risk to Health & Safety of Persons:
– Who use the plant or structure
– Who construct the plant or structure
– Who decommission the plant or structure
– Who maintain the plant or structure

INVOLVES THE LIFECYCLE OF THE PLANT OR STRUCTURE


INCLUDES PERMANENT AND TEMPORARY STRUCTURES
WHS REG 2011

• Part 5.1 & 5.2 - Division 2 – Duties for safe plant design
• Part 6.2 Duties for designers or structure
– Consult with designer
– Designer to provide a safety report
– Pass on of information to the Principal Contractor

• Other parts of WHS Reg (e.g. confined spaces, slips, trips & fall, etc)
RAMIFICATIONS OF POOR/UNSAFE DESIGN

Lifecycle Cost Impacts

Health & Safety Impacts

Regulatory & Legal Impacts


HOW CAN I COMPLY?

1. Persons in
control

5.
2. Product
Information
Lifecycle
Transfer

4. Safe design
3. Systematic
knowledge
risk
and
management
Capability

Principles of Safe Design Model for Safe Design


SYSTEMATIC RISK ASSESSMENT

Hazard identification should not be limited to one


or two people’s experiences of situations and can
include the following:
• Research to help in the identification of hazards
and assessment of risks and controls,
• Consultation with all parties involved in the
project including where possible contractors
familiar with the construction works and
fabricators/suppliers of the equipment being
proposed.
• Guidance material including codes of practice,
technical standards or industry protocols
• Hazard identification and risk assessment tools.
(HazOP, ETA, FTA, FMEA, PHA, HRA, CHAIR)
PRACTICAL SAFE DESIGN EXAMPLES
OTHER GUIDANCE AVAILABLE

• Safe Work Australia


– Guidance on the principles of Safe Brad Matthews
Design
Senior Consultant
– Safe Design of Structures 2012 CoP
GCG Health Safety Hygiene
• Worksafe Qld
– Safe Design of Structures 2013 CoP
0429 163310
• Construction Hazard Assessment [email protected]
Implication Review (CHAIR)
www.gcg.net.au

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