© Safetymark
Consultancy Services 2007
Avoiding Foreseeable
Risks
•Designers are required to avoid foreseeable risks ‘so
far as is reasonably
practicable, taking due account of other relevant design considerations’.
•The greater the risk, the greater the weight that must
be given to eliminating or
reducing it.
•Designers are not expected to consider or address risks which cannot be foreseen, and the Regulations do not require zero risk designs because this is simply
impossible.
•Designers must not produce designs that cannot be constructed, maintained, used or demolished in
reasonable safety