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on how the designer has designed the structure to be without risk to health and safety must be provided to anyone issued with the design documents. This includes the lifecycle of the structure from construction, maintenance, use and demolition at end of life. In addition,
a safety report detailing hazards unique to that design must be provided to the PCBU who commissions the construction work.

Designers must give adequate information to each person who is provided with the design and who is to give effect to the design, such as the home owner or builder, about:
    * the purposes for which the structure was designed;
    * the results of any calculations, analysis, testing or examination. This may include:
          + a statement to the effect that the design complies with the Building Code of Australia;
          + any relevant Australian Standards; and
          + whether the designer has made reasonable enquiries of builders regarding the design of the buildability of the designed structure to ensure that the structure can be built in a safe way in practice;
    * any conditions necessary to ensure that the structure is without risks to safety when carrying out work activities such as construction, maintenance and demolition.
    * The designer must also, so far as is reasonably practicable, provide this information to any person who carries out activities in relation to the structure—like a renovator—if requested.
Figure 1 illustrates how information about safe design should flow to different duty holders.

Figure 1 Designer's duties to provide information

* Persons who:
      1. use the structure for a purpose for which it was designed; or
      2. construct the structure at a workplace; or
      3. carry out any reasonably foreseeable activity at a workplace in relation to the manufacture, assembly or use of the structure for a purpose for which it was designed or the proper demolition or disposal of the structure; or
      4. are at or in the vicinity of a workplace and who are exposed to the structure at the workplace or whose health or safety may be affected by a use or activity referred to above.

The Designer's Safety Report
A written safety report is required for designs of structures that have unusual or atypical features which present hazards and risks during the construction phase. Examples of designs that may introduce unique hazards include:
    * a design that specifies a steel structure that has to be built in a particular sequence to prevent it from structural collapse during construction
    * a design that specifies ventilation in the sub-floor because the home is to be built on land‑fill and there is a risk of a build-up of methane gas which could create risks to those excavating or constructing the