ABSTRACT
Principal designers need to understand and bring about the process of design risk management for the construction project. Designers need to take into account the general principles of prevention and any pre-construction Information to eliminate practicable, foreseeable health and safety risks. A design risk register is a live document used to log the risks that have been identified on a project. This makes them easy for the principal designer and other duty holders to access them as necessary. The health and safety file is a live document that needs to be appropriately reviewed, updated and revised by the principal designer during the pre-construction phase, as the project proceeds. The principal contractor must provide the principal designer with relevant information for the health and safety file as the project proceeds. The file must contain information about the current project likely to be needed to ensure health and safety during any subsequent work, such as maintenance, cleaning, refurbishment or demolition.
