Legal SID Requirements with Design & Construct Structures

Organisations must consider when designing structures temporary or permanent – all the phases in the lifecycle of an item of plant from manufacture through use, to dismantling and disposal.

  • Design for safe manufacture, build, delivery, erection & install
  • Design to facilitate safe use by considering the users
  • Consider intended use & reasonably foreseeable misuse.
  • Consider the difficulties workers may face when maintaining or repairing the structure
  • Consider types of failure or malfunction and design the structure to fail in a safe manner.
  • Designers must have a good understanding of the lifecycle of the item they are
  • designing, including the needs of users and the environment in which that item may be used.

The law has requirements for:

  • Designers of Plant
  • Designers of buildings & structures
  • Persons with control of workplaces
  • Manufacturers, Importers & Suppliers of Structures
  • Persons who Install, Erect or Make any Changes to Structures

Responsibilities for Safe Design can be reviewed in:

  • Guidance on the principles of safe design for work, 
  • the Principles of Good Work Design Handbook, 
  • the Model Code of Practice: Safe Design of Structures and 
  • WHS Regulations and 
  • all the CoP below referenced

Each state and territory has these duties with very minor variances.

Manage Damage has been conducting Safety in Design Risk Reviews and Assessments for many years.

Our Approach – Recommended Approach for Review

We recommend a review against the Legislations, Code of Practice and actual practices by state.

Step 1: Safety In Design Risk Identification & Initial Desktop Review of the Business Systems and Processes

Step 2: Risk Assessment for Each Factors found required from Step 1 

Step 3: Recommendation for Improvements & Risk Reduction Recommendation

Step 4: Deliver Safety in Design Recommendations

Past Safety in Design Projects 

  • 2022 – Safety in Design – ASX Listed – Building
  • 2022 – Working with Defence Aerospace Client re Safety in Design – Confidential Name
  • 2021 – Invitation to Delphi Panel Advisor about Robot-Safety – Safety in Design 
  • 2021 – Safety in Design – Safety in the Future Paper Conference Presentation for IEC 85th General Meeting on the Market Strategy Board (MSB) with International Electrotechnical Commission _ Presenter
  • 2020 – Safety in Design – Technical Expert Safety Futurist SEG 10 Ethics in Autonomous & Artificial Intelligence Applications WG 1 AAA Societal and Ethical Foundations & WG 2 AAA Specific Ethical Requirements (Autonomous and Artificial Intelligence Applications (AAA)) – Working Group Member
  • 2020 – Safety in Design – Safety in the Future – Selected as an Expert with International Electrotechnical Commission
  • 2020 – Safety in Design – Trieste – Legal Compliance & New Design Silica Solution
  • 2020 – Safety in Design – Technical Expert Safety Futurist – IEC MSB Safety in the Future White Paper with International Electoral Commission – Guest Speaker – Gevena
  • 2020 – Safety in Design – Technical Expert Safety Futurist – IEC MSB Safety in the Future White Paper with International Electoral Commission – Author
  • 2019 – Safety in Design – Education – Legal Compliance Review 
  • 2018 – Safety in Design – Medical – Legal Compliance Review 
  • 2018 – Safety in Design – Risk Dollarisation Book 2018
  • 2016 – Safety in Design Training – New Build Tier 1 Builder – Project
  • 2008 – 2016 – Safety in Design for Various Projects for 10 Years
  • 2008 – Tier 1 Builder 111 Eagle Street Safety in Design Team