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Task Force on Health & Safety on Construction Sites
Terms of Reference 

  • To consider the impact Directive 92/57 is having on the consulting engineering profession.
  • To advise EFCA Board of Directors in responding to any proposed amendment to the Directive.
  • To provide EFCA’s expert contribution to the EC advisory experts’ committee for the development of a non-binding guidance for member states on the Directive (i.e. to clarify the Directive’s terminology and the roles of designers, and to assist the member associations).


SCOPE OF WORK – 2009

  • EFCA-ACE (Architects’ Council of Europe) guidance on ‘Designing for Safety’ (2006) 
  • Aim: to ensure appropriate application of Directive 92/57/EEC in the EU member states 
  • How: through providing expert assistance – together with ACE - to the EC in the preparation of non-binding guidance for the member states (delineate the responsibility of designers)

‘DESIGNING FOR SAFETY IN CONSTRUCTION’, EFCA (EUROPEAN FEDRATION OF ENGINEERING CONSULTANCY ASSOCIATIONS)/ ARCHITECTS’ COUNCIL OF EUROPE (ACE), September 2006

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