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4.2 Designers Responsibilities
Who are designers?
4.2.1
The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations defines a designer as an organisation
or an individual who:
a.
Prepares or modifies a design for a construction project including temporary works, i.e.,
an architect, a civil or structural engineer, consulting engineer, a temporary works
engineer; or
b.
Someone who arranges for, or instructs someone else to do so, i.e., chartered surveyors,
quantity surveyors, a person who selects products for use in construction, a person who
prepares a product specification, including manufacturers and suppliers.
4.2.2
More narrative on who is a designer, why they are so important and what they must do, can be
found in HSE’s L153 paragraph’s 72-91.
4.2.3
In addition, BS 5975-1:2024 clause 12.1.5 states that anyone selecting or specifying a
standard solution, where the manufacturer and/or supplier provides technical data, should be
made aware they have responsibilities and duties as a designer.
4.2.4
Those selecting a standard solution, or
making a modification to it, could include
specialist
contractors
such
as
groundworkers,
scaffolders,
and
site
managers,
site
who
can
or
agents
influence how an activity is undertaken or
Consider this:
1. Are you a designer?
2. Can you suggest an item of equipment that
could be used? Are they standard solutions?
3. Are you technically and practically proficient?
4. Who checks the solution is fit for purpose?
executed.
What the law says about design responsibilities
4.2.5
The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, regulation 19, states:
This places legal duties
upon manufacturers,
designers,
suppliers,
and specifiers.
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