From finger pointing to life saving: defining professional responsibility for health and safety in construction design

澳大利亚几个司法管辖区的OHS立法规定了建筑设计师的具体职责。到目前为止，这项立法未能起到显著的威慑作用。这项研究解决了经验上被忽视的问题，即如何在行业实践的背景下合理分配设计OHS责任。因此，它将：(1)突出现有立法中固有的概念性问题；(2)制定在施工过程中分配设计职业健康安全责任的替代机制；(3)为设计中消除危险的国家优先领域的政策制定提供基础；以及(4)改善建筑和房地产部门的设计职业健康安全绩效。

Specific duties for construction designers exist in the OHS legislation of several Australian jurisdictions. Thus far, the legislation has failed to act as a significant deterrent. The research addresses the empirically neglected question of how design OHS responsibility might be sensibly allocated in the context of industry practice. Hence it will: (1) highlight conceptual problems inherent in existing legislation; (2) develop alternative mechanisms for allocating design OHS responsibility in the construction process; (3) provide the basis for policy development in the national priority area of hazard elimination in design; and (4) improve design OHS performance in construction and property sectors.