Australia Model Code of Practice: Safe Design of Structures 3.2a: 3.2 Identify physical and psychosocial hazards early, systematically and beyond one or two people's experience

Hazard identification should happen as early as possible in concept and design stages, systematically, covering physical and psychosocial hazards, and not rely on one or two people's experiences. Broad hazard groups should be identified before design scoping, using the Appendix C checklist, and the designer and others involved in preliminary hazard analysis then decide which hazards are in scope because the design can affect, introduce or increase them. Possible ways to eliminate or minimise should be considered at this early stage. Foreseeable systems of work arising from the construction method and intended use should be identified, and the client's brief may include likely job demands and workflows at task level and activities or systems specific to the structure, such as hazardous manual tasks in a health facility, the acoustic environment in a call centre, violence and aggression in customer service, dangerous goods storage in a warehouse and sexual harassment in workers' accommodation.