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decisions may positively or negatively affect the safety of a building. In these circumstances, each party will have responsibility for health and safety in the design stage.

So far as is reasonably practicable, the duty holders involved must consult each other on the hazards and risks associated with the building and work together on appropriate design solutions. This would include a client co-operating with a designer in changing a design to address a health and safety risk identified in the design process.

Regulation 294: A person who commissions construction work must consult with the designer to ensure that risks arising from the design during construction are eliminated or minimised as far as reasonably practicable.
Appendix A provides examples of consultation, co-operation and co-ordination between duty holders in various contractual relationships.
Further guidance on consultation is available in the Code of Practice: Work Health and Safety Consultation, Cooperation and Coordination.

2.5         Information transfer
Key information about identified hazards and action taken or required to control risks should be recorded and transferred from the design phase to those involved in later stages of the lifecycle. Communicating this information to other duty holders will make them aware of any residual risks and minimise the likelihood of safety features incorporated into the design being altered or removed by those engaged in subsequent work on or around the building or structure.

Section 22: Designers must give adequate information to each person who is provided with the design in order to give effect to it concerning:
    * the purpose for which the structure was designed
    * the results of any calculations, testing, analysis or examination
    * any conditions necessary to ensure that the structure is without risks when used for a purpose for which it was designed or when carrying out any activity related to the structure 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 if requested.
Points for designers to consider when providing information include:
    * making notes on drawings, as these will be immediately available to construction workers
    * providing information on significant hazards, as well as:
          + hazardous substances or flammable materials included in the design
          + heavy or awkward prefabricated elements likely to create handling risks
          + features that create access problems
          + temporary work required to construct or renovate the building as designed, for example bracing of steel or concrete frame buildings
          + features of the design essential to safe operation
          + methods of access where normal methods of securing scaffold are not available
          + any parts of the design where risks have been minimised but not eliminated