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1. Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 7

1.1 What is Health and Safety in Design? ..................................................................................................................................... 7

1.2 Why consider Health and Safety in Design? ............................................................................................................................ 8

1.3 Who is a designer and who should be involved? .................................................................................................................... 8

1.4 Who are we protecting? .......................................................................................................................................................... 9

1.5 What are we protecting people from? .................................................................................................................................... 9

1.6 Legal requirements ................................................................................................................................................................. 9

1.7 Benefits of a Health and Safety in Design approach ............................................................................................................. 10

2. Health and Safety In Design Scope ................................................................................................................................ 11

2.1 Principles of Health and Safety in Design .............................................................................................................................. 11

2.2 Project life cycle .................................................................................................................................................................... 12

2.3 Responsibilities during the project lifecycle .......................................................................................................................... 13

2.4 Demolition or decommissioning ........................................................................................................................................... 13

2.5 Road safety audit................................................................................................................................................................... 13

3. When to undertake Health and Safety in Design .......................................................................................................... 14

3.1 Concept design review stage ................................................................................................................................................. 16

3.2 Detail design review stage .................................................................................................................................................... 17

4. How to carry out a Health and Safety in Design Review................................................................................................ 18

4.1 Reviews ................................................................................................................................................................................. 18

4.2 Hazard identification ............................................................................................................................................................. 19

4.3 Assessment and review of hazards ....................................................................................................................................... 19

4.4 Mitigation .............................................................................................................................................................................. 19

4.5 Residual risk assessment ....................................................................................................................................................... 19

4.6 Recording of actions and handover ...................................................................................................................................... 20

5. Responsibility of the review team ................................................................................................................................ 21

5.1 General requirements ........................................................................................................................................................... 21

5.2 Facilitation ............................................................................................................................................................................. 22

5.3 Health and Safety in Design records and handover .............................................................................................................. 22

Appendix A: References ........................................................................................................................................................... 24

Appendix B: Definition of terms ............................................................................................................................................... 25

Appendix C: Design team responsibilities ................................................................................................................................ 26

Appendix D: Concept design checklist ...................................................................................................................................... 28

Appendix E: Review prompt words .......................................................................................................................................... 29

Appendix F: Workshop agenda template ................................................................................................................................. 30

Appendix G: Detail design checklist ......................................................................................................................................... 31

Appendix H: Review methodology and templates.................................................................................................................... 32

Appendix I: Facilitation guidelines ........................................................................................................................................... 34

Appendix J: Example design register ........................................................................................................................................ 35

Appendix K: Health and Safety in Design issues – examples ..................................................................................................... 36

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