Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0881321

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0881321

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

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

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 30-06-2012

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $220,500.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Architecture | Building Construction Management | Architecture | Environmental And Occupational Health And Safety

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Injury control | Technological and organisational innovation | The professions and professionalisation |

Other Keywords

Architecture | Building Construction Management | Environmental And Occupational Health And Safety | Injury control | Technological and organisational innovation | The professions and professionalisation

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