Ideas?

We are keen to hear of any ideas you have to improve the site and what it provides for this community. Don’t forget we have the newsletter facility as well and can easily alert a great number of people to problems we discover or great suggestions for new products to specify. SiD is designed to be vibrant and useful. It depends on you to keep it this way.

SiD - Safety in Design Ltd

is a company that exists to support designers in the built environment. It is by industry and for industry.

Design is difficult, demanding and complex with many constraints on decision making. Designers are highly trained individuals who work between the dreams and visions of their clients and the practical delivery of projects by contractors. They are very diverse in the services they offer and the skills they have developed. Designers are required by UK law to consider aspects of safety and health at all stages of a structure’s life. If they get this wrong they can be prosecuted as individuals and fined or imprisoned. SiD is established to share the best of ideas and to suggest options for some of the choices, to educate and to inform and to agree amongst this elite community and those who regulate it what is reasonable, professional and fair.

You will see from the menu tabs that SiD has several key areas of activity each of which is explained in the appropriate section.

The site is developed for the UK building and construction sector where there are statutory duties placed on those who engage in design under a range of legislation and particularly the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007. Because much of the content is about reducing project risk and harm by technical decisions, much of the material will have international use. We are particularly interested in links with other countries of various kinds and would like to invite organisations, institutions and companies to contact us to discuss formal and informal arrangements. If you plan to work or become involved in projects being built in the UK we advise you to seek the services of a specialist UK safety consultant to advise you on your duties.
 

You will find this site useful if you are a:

  • Architect
  • Builder
  • Building your own house
  • Buy to let property owner
  • CDM Co-ordinator
  • Client commissioning building or engineering work
  • Contractor
  • Design practice principal
  • Enforcer (HSE, ORR or Police and CPS)
  • Engineer: civil, mechanical, electrical, building services, etc
  • Executive or non executive director of a design practice
  • Health and safety training provider or consultant
  • Insurance advisor, broker or underwriter
  • Interested in what it is designers do
  • Investor in UK building and infrastructure projects
  • Lecturer in the built environment
  • Local authority elected Member
  • Local authority staff member with responsibility for budget relating to property
  • Occupational health professional
  • Project manager
  • Property developer
  • Property managing agent
  • Prosecution or defence lawyer
  • Quantity surveyor
  • Risk manager
  • Supplier of products and tools that can improve health or safety