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Horne, K A, Gibb, A G F, Pavitt, T C and Haslam, R A (2003) D4h: influences on designing for health: results from interviews and questionnaires. In: Greenwood, D J (Ed.), Proceedings 19th Annual ARCOM Conference, 3-5 September 2003, Brighton, UK. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, Vol. 1, 101–10.
- Type: Conference Proceedings
- Keywords: CDM; European TMCS Directive; healthy design; risk assessment
- ISBN/ISSN: 0 9534161 8 6
- URL: http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/proceedings/ar2003-101-110_Horne_et_al.pdf
- Abstract:
Designing for Health (D4h) is a two-year UK Government-funded research project developing a strategy for best practice in designing construction projects to account for the occupational health of construction workers. For many years, health has been the ‘poor relative’ of safety in ‘health and safety’ considerations. This is an important issue where little in-depth work exists although it is rapidly becoming a key issue for many European countries. The European Temporary and Mobile Construction Sites Directive, leading to CDM in the UK, has stimulated a change in design culture in many states with designers being expected to explicitly acknowledge health and safety in their designs and seek to reduce or remove risk to construction workers. However, all the concentration so far has been on safety, to the exclusion of occupational health, except for issues surrounding hazardous substances. Twenty three semi-structured interviews of experienced design practitioners and managers regarding design phase provision for occupational health of construction workers were undertaken. In addition a nineteen question questionnaire was completed by each of the interviewees. Findings indicate that health design is influenced by a number of factors but is still overshadowed by safety when it comes to inclusion in the design process.