Q/ The greatest risk in not taking some responsibility and prescribing outcomes?
A/ ‘as recommended by the manufacturer’.
What needs to be prescribed are the outcomes and key test or acceptance criteria.
The ‘how’ in delivering the safe outcomes is where innovation might prove useful.
Our world is full of prescription, including
- minmum heights of the hand rails on balconies and decks,
- minimum strength of hand rails and their end anchor points,
- maximum size of openings in balustrades,
- balustrade designs to resist climbing
A manufacturer can innovate all they like to deliver hand rails and balustrades in many styles and shapes. Providing they meet the standards and building codes!
Should we accept any less of cribs, cots, high chairs, rockets, change tables etc etc etc?
