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appendix provides information to builders about consulting and working with designers on work health and safety matters during the construction process. It also explains the kind of work health and safety information designers must provide to ensure the safe 'buildability' of structures.

Guidance for designers is available in the Code of Practice: Design of Structures.

The WHS Act requires a designer to:
    * so far as is reasonably practicable, ensure that the structure is designed to be without risks to the health and safety of persons who:
          + at a workplace, use the structure for a purpose for which it was designed;
          + construct the structure at a workplace;
          + carry out any reasonably foreseeable activity at the 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;
          + are at or in the vicinity of a workplace and who are exposed to the structure at the workplace or whose health may be affected by a use or activity referred to above.
    * carry out, or arrange for the carrying out of, any calculations, analysis, testing or examination that may be necessary for the performance of the above duties;
    * give adequate information to each person who is provided with the design for the purpose of giving effect to it concerning;
          + each purpose for which the structure was designed;
          + the results of any calculations, analysis, testing or examination; or
          + any conditions necessary to ensure that the structure is without risks to health and safety when used for a purpose for which it was designed or when carrying out any activity referred to above.
    * on request, so far as is reasonably practicable, give current relevant information on the matters referred to above to a person who carries out or is to carry out any of the activities referred to above.
A designer of a structure or any part of a structure has additional obligations under the WHS Regulations to give a written report to the PCBU that commissioned the design. This report must specify the hazards relating to the design of the structure that, so far as the designer is reasonably aware:
    * create a risk to the health or safety of persons who are to carry out any construction work on the structure or part; and
    * are associated only with the particular design and not with other designs of the same type of structure.
There may be multiple designers who are involved in the design of a structure and have the same duties, for example draftspersons, architects and engineers. A builder could also be considered to