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no可以确定纽约市2019年春季的可耻的建筑安全故障,当时三名建筑工人在4月的一个周中去世,而5月的第四名死亡,可以通过设计实践来阻止。这就是这个想法和联邦倡议的名称,可以通过消除危害以及减轻和管理它们来使工作场所更安全。

But if you think it is time for fresh safety ideas, in New York and everyplace else, and wonder about ways to implement them, you will be able to find those ideas at the one-day prevention through design conference September 27 at New York University’s Brooklyn building at 370 Jay Street.

在施工中,通过设计进行预防,相当于在最早的项目设计计划会议上对议程进行安全,而不是在承包商被雇用或开始建设之后。

在这种方法下,项目团队试图预测并设计工作方法,操作,设备和材料中的危害。重点是工人及其行为和人类倾向。然后eliminating the chance that someone will make an unsafe choice involving a lapse in judgment.

这个想法对我来说很有意义。人们有时会在判断中犯错误,只是因为他们是人类。您永远无法训练或配备足够的防护装备,无法100%无风险。

So when possible, designing out the hazard by envisioning all the things people will have to do to build the project, is the smartest thing to do. And while doing that, picture how all the people using what’s built could be safer.

Top engineering scholars, such as T. Michael Toole of the University of Toledo and John A. Gambatese of Oregon State, have documented prevention through design’s effectiveness as a business practice. They have even sketched out the language that could be added to AIA or Engineers Joint Contract Documents Committee standard forms to accommodate the practice.

欧洲在通过设计采用预防方面远远领先于美国,但是实践和道德力量推动这种做法正在美国主要的建筑雇主(例如Skanska和Kiewit)获得势头,使员工在概念上受过教育。访问美国劳工部的NIOSH预防设计网站显示出急剧增加。

在纽约州AIA,大纽约建筑用户委员会和纽约房地产委员会的支持下,相关的总承包商纽约州分会是主要赞助商。