Safer Design was founded to assist Designers, Project Managers, Contractors and Clients in ‘designing out’ health and safety risks during design development.

Safer Design believes that along with quality, programme and cost; safety is determined during the design stage. We also believe that a large number of construction and end use safety risks can be designed out during design developement with proactive focused consideration.

The STAGE review promoted by Safer Design is considered a useful process in managing risk; that improves safety, constructability and maintainability in a coordinated manner with all stakeholders.

The STAGE review process was designed during research at the University of the West of England and developed in close consultation with leading academics and construction professionals from Europe, Australia, UAE and the United States.

This website has been developed to promote STAGE reviews and to act as an industry resource specifically for the design phase health and safety management process.

Safer Design is a not for profit site (legal) and we hope you use the resource and the STAGE reviews to help reduce accidents and incidents throughout the life cycle of your structures and buildings.  

If you wish to support this incentive by contributing material, please feel free to contact us as we welcome any CDM / Safety in Design resource you may wish to donate for posting.

The site is currently in development, however will are programmed for formal launch shortly.

WHAT is STAGE?