Enabling Safety by Design
Build synergy
Organisations and safety professionals are increasingly interested in the ideologies established by Safety Differently and in the application for Safe Design. However, too often these concepts are seen to be at odds with each other, with one viewing people as the solution and the other viewing engineering as the solution. The purpose of Enabling Safety through Design is to build a synergy between two concepts in a well-balanced and productive fashion.
Duties of the designer under the WHS legislation Under section 22 WHS Act prescribe that the designer must ensure structures are designed to be safe when it is used as a workplace during its lifecycle. This includes during the construction of the structure, the purpose for which the structure is designed, the maintenance, cleaning or repair of the structure and the eventual demolition at end of life. Designers must also consider the safety of people in the vicinity of the workplace.
This requires engineers to consider the potential risks involved in the life of a design, to ensure it is safe to build, operate, maintain, and demolish a structure / building / plant. This master class will address safety in the engineering design process, and introduce safety differently as the method to meet obligations and leverage user-centred design to innovate and provide design solutions to operational conditions. It will include the implementation of risk management processes described in ISO 31000.
What to expect…
Participants will learn:
The similarities in the safe design and safety differently practice
The broad definition of ‘design’ as a foundation principle for safety differently being the upstream influences to understand what goes right
How the work design process can be enhanced by learning from what goes right
What leaders and safety professionals can do to build an enhanced safety management system based on the synergies presented in this master class
How to harness to safety in design methods to meet and exceed regulatory obligations
Participants will receive:
Presentation of themes derived from identified issues by participants
Video recording of the session
Presentation material
Access for six months to a master class web portal containing workshop materials and relevant case studies, change strategies, journal articles, book references, links to e-resources, and tools to collaborate with other participants beyond the master class.
Presenters
Kelvin Genn
Managing Director
art of work
Kelvin is a strategic systems thinker with experience in Human Factors and organizational re-engineering. He developed his systems thinking approach working in the Royal Australian Air Force for 10 years.
As a Board Member for NSW Health, Kelvin worked as the NSW Health Director for Clinical Quality and Patient Safety. He has also worked with the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care to develop the national accreditation system for all health care providers across Australia.
Currently, he holds board positions with the Food Safety Information Council and is also a committee member with the Safety Institute of Australia.
Michael Behm
Professor of Occupational Safety
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC
Michael Behm is a professor of Occupational Safety at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, and Coordinator of the Working Commission on Safety and Health in Construction at the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction, in the Netherlands.
Michael serves on the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s Construction Sector Occupational Research and Prevention through Design (PtD) Councils.
He was previously a Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Greenery and Ecology, Singapore focusing on safe design aspects of urban greenery systems, and a Visiting Fellow at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. His philosophy on work is that each person has a significant role in arranging the conditions where they and their workmates can be successful.
Person in focus: Professor Michael Behm
Ongoing development & support
On completion of the master class, you will be provided with access to the Art of Work Enabling Safety through Design portal.
The portal will provide you with further resources for building your own Safety through Design strategy including templates, assessments, thought leadership articles, presentations and case studies.
