11Prevention Through Design (PtD) and Design Safety Reviews
Bruce Lyon1 and Georgi Popov2
1 Brown & Brown
2 University of Central Missouri
11.1 Introduction
Arguably the greatest missed opportunity for organizations to reduce risk is the failure to adequately identify, assess, and control risks during the design and redesign phase. At first glance, a safety design review seems like a fairly easy enough process that would be universally practiced within organizations and engineering circles. In reality, there are obstacles that must be overcome to be successful in putting this concept into practice.
For occupational serious injuries and fatalities (SIFs) to be effectively and consistently reduced, safety must be designed into workplace facilities, systems, and methods. Risk avoidance and elimination, the most effective risk treatment options, are generally only possible by design and redesign efforts (Lyon et al. 2019).
The use of risk assessment techniques in the design and redesign phase is one of the most effective ways to avoid and eliminate risk from being introduced into a system or product. While its use has increased during the past decade, design‐phase risk assessments remain one of the most underutilized aspects of operational risk management. This represents ...
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