ABSTRACT
Behm & Schneller (2013), Lingard et. al (2013) and Cooke & Lingard (2011), demonstrated in their re-search the importance of looking beyond the immediate/primary circumstances of an accident to identify the failures at the upstream of construction pro-jects such as the design, client actions, education and economic environment in accident investigations (Gibb et al., 2014). Also Frijters and Swuste (2008) recognize the influence that designers, architects and structural engineers have on the health and safety of the construction sites, considering the design choices the determining factors to achieve safe construction practices and the need to integrate safety in the design objectives.
