Digitisation: How can digital innovation (e.g. digitisation of CDM) be harnessed to
improve building safety and to better structure, share and use construction health and
safety data to best inform health and/or safety decisions during the design,
construction and use of an asset or building?

Background

To enable strategic and transformative advances in health and safety across the diverse construction sector through technology and innovation and the new opportunities and risks arising from it. To underpin construction and building safety regulatory regimes with evidence-based approaches and enable effective oversight across the whole built environment. To inform standards and guidance development to improve the safety and standard of buildings and develop effective strategies to measure and build competence across the construction and building safety sectors. To ensure that our approach to regulating chemicals and microbial control agents: is effective, efficient and agile, reflecting current and developing scientific understanding and technical knowledge; reinforces our position as an internationally influential regulator; and enables society to derive the benefits of access to safe and sustainable use of chemicals; and ensure there is no harm to workers, bystanders and consumers or unacceptable effects on the environment.

Next steps

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Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

HS Es Areas of Research Interest ARI 2023

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