A KNOWLEDGE SHARE CAMPAIGN
AND SOLUTION OFFER
FOR DESIGN PROFESSIONALS
BRINGING FRESH SAFETY IN DESIGN INFORMATION
THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR VIEW
OF WHAT YOU ARE MEANT TO DO
AND WHY IT MATTERS.
WHAT SAFETY IN DESIGN IS NOT
. Safety in Design legislation is NOT asking us to populate long risk registers with standard safety issues or report on other people's standard duties. . It is NOT asking us to take on liability where we shouldn't be. . It is NOT meant for occasional use, but is is also NOT asking us to waste our valuable time. . |
QUITE THE OPPOSITE
. Safety in Design legislation is asking us to help find the unusual safety issues which need our attention. The ones which could be hiding in even the most standard of design projects AFTER we had complied with the known safety rules. . It is asking us to share that information and help manage the safety conversation positively. IT IS A LEGISLATED PROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION TOOL. . It is placing a duty on us so lives can be saved. Yet it limits that duty where we DON'T have the reasonable capacity to do so. . And within that POSITIVE DUTY, sits an extraordinary opportunity for us: To build more collaborative teams and solve an even wider range of pressing problems in our design practices and in our communities. . |
WHY NOW?
My name is Jennekin and as a past architect and (over the past decade) a systems & management consultant to Australian design practices, I am very aware of the level of risk we are creating in our national response to Safety in Design.
I'm also aware of the amount of time we are wasting on incorrect and ineffective reporting processes. Time which could be much better spent solving real problems. Unfortunately, whole design disciplines have been moving within a natural tide of misunderstanding and mistrust of the legislation since 2007 in Queensland and 2012 for most of Australia. Too often, leaders in design practices either move unknowingly with that tide or are frustrated in their attempts to pull their teams from that tide. All the while, I see well-meaning, talented people risking criminal liability - and I have seen too many examples of near-misses to think this is not something to worry about. Taking this even further into our everyday reality, I also see people embroiled in stressful civil lawsuits which could have been avoided with a more effective Safety in Design management and record keeping process. The truth is that we CAN change this, but only IF the legislation and on-project process is explained in the context of how we work and think. And IF, at the same time, both our duty and the BOUNDARIES to our duty are properly defined, so we can see the common sense which sits in this conversation and therefore understand how we are also protected. I have spent years developing ways to bring this understanding as part of my work with design professionals, then refining the solutions and training so it becomes an easy and obvious change to step into. I have thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated the opportunities to bring change within the closed group of my client base for many years now, but this topic needs industry wide change. I believe we can turn this negative tide into a positive one - easing the burden, reducing the risk and building great results for our practices and professional careers. Won't you please join me? |
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"Ah well, when you explain it like that, it seems obvious," said Mudge.
"Of course, it always seems obvious once it's been explained."
- Theodora Goss, The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter.
"Of course, it always seems obvious once it's been explained."
- Theodora Goss, The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter.