Safe & Healthier By Design
Many, if not all, incidents have causal factors rooted in early design decisions. SCSLG recognises this and promotes Safety by Design which is also a key theme in Highways England’s Home Safe and Well strategy. The fast-growing BIM maturity of suppliers and advances in digital engineering capability are providing opportunities for step change improvements in Safety by Design. These are being enabled through enhanced, collaborative sharing using single source data and structured whole-life Health and Safety information in Common Data Environments. Establishing Safety by Design as a mindset in project and programme teams, with everyone routinely reaching their decisions and developing actions to suit, is critical to achieving safer outcomes for workers and customers. The earlier this is done, from client-commissioning at the start of the design process, the greater the opportunities to ensure effective, whole-life risk management
We want no harm to come to workers or customers as a result of our designs. In so doing we want to establish a lasting ‘Safety by Design’ culture from the concept stage of a project, including adopting a default mindset of designing for off-site manufacture and assembly.
We want no harm to come to workers or customers as a result of our designs. In so doing we want to establish a lasting ‘Safety by Design’ culture from the concept stage of a project, including adopting a default mindset of designing for off-site manufacture and assembly.
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