Work Health & Safety legislation; the fire engineer’s neglected duty?

P.A. (Tony) Enright
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Abstract

Fire engineers are in general, aware of their duties under Building legislation. However, they are often unfamiliar of separate duties under Work Health and Safety legislation.

This paper describes an Australian case-study, but one that is presented generally so as to have applicability in those other jurisdictions where similar Work Health and Safety obligations exist.

As society becomes safer, Work Health and Safety has evolved from being solely about the employer–employee relationship, to also impose duties on other participants, such as building designers. Fire engineers are building designers that by the very nature of their work, directly influence the safety of a workplace. Most buildings upon which fire engineering is practiced are workplaces.

Under Building legislation, fire engineers must design to minimum performance requirements. In the process, usually adopting the most cost effective approach and thereby creating economic benefits.

Under Work Health and Safety legislation however, fire engineers have a duty to adopt the highest possible level of precautions, unless it is not reasonably practicable to do so. The reasonably practicable test must follow the hierarchy of controls and consider all relevant matters, the last of which is cost.

Fire engineers that ignore Work Health and Safety duties, intentionally or not, are exposed to claims of negligence.

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工作健康与安全立法;消防工程师被忽视的职责?
消防工程师一般都知道他们在建筑法例下的责任。然而,他们往往不熟悉工作健康和安全立法下的不同职责。本文描述了澳大利亚的一个案例研究,但这是一个一般性的案例研究,以便适用于存在类似工作健康和安全义务的其他司法管辖区。随着社会变得更加安全,工作健康与安全已经从仅仅是雇主与雇员的关系演变为对其他参与者(如建筑设计师)施加责任。消防工程师是建筑设计师,他们的工作性质直接影响到工作场所的安全。大多数实施消防工程的建筑物都是工作场所。根据建筑法规,消防工程师必须按照最低性能要求进行设计。在此过程中,通常采用最具成本效益的方法,从而创造经济效益。然而,根据工作健康和安全立法,消防工程师有责任采取尽可能高水平的预防措施,除非这样做在合理可行的情况下无法做到。合理可行的测试必须遵循控制层次,并考虑所有相关事项,其中最后一个是成本。忽视工作健康和安全职责的消防工程师,无论是有意还是无意,都可能面临过失索赔。
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