Designing SAFETY

摘要

The concept known as Prevention through Design refers to designing facilities, processes and products in a way that minimizes workplace hazards and risks not only to the people who will use them, but to those who construct them. "If you avoid bringing hazards in the workplace to begin with, you have a much higher probability of avoiding injuries and illnesses - especially serious [ones]," said Fred Manuele, president of Arlington Heights, IL-based Hazards Ltd. PtD can benefit any industry that uses costly retrofitting to protect the safety of its workers, according to Wayne Christensen, who owns Crystal Lake, IL-based Christensen Consulting for Safety Excellence Ltd.