- Project number: F 2542
- Institution: Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA)
- Status: Ongoing Project
- Planned end: 2024-04-01
Description:
The planning, construction, equipment, and operation of workplaces are influenced by legal, technical, and design requirements. It is necessary to observe health and safety regulations, in particular the Workplaces Ordinance (Arbeitsstättenverordnung, ArbStättV) and the technical rules for workplaces (Arbeitsstättenregeln, ASR). A range of practical problems, misunderstandings, and mistakes are, however, encountered when plans are implemented.
A feasibility study investigated how the potential functions of planning tools based on Building Information Modelling (BIM) could be utilised, and how occupational safety and health requirements could be integrated into designs early in the planning phase. The vision is no longer merely to provide planners with documents, but to create innovative planning tools that deliver relevant information. One of the foundations for this approach is the transformation of workplace requirements into object-oriented and machine-executable forms. The example of escape routes will be looked at to develop a multistage method for the transformation of workplace requirements and standards, as well as technical and legal commentaries. It is hoped this knowledge base will help planners meet requirements, exploit the legal scope they have, and optimise workplace designs.
The first stage will involve identifying requirements, standards, and technical and legal commentaries that relate to escape routes, then extracting and structuring relevant content. The next stage will see that content transformed into object-oriented and machine-executable forms as a basis for digital solutions. These solutions will be verified and collected in a reliable database, which will be made available for use by planning tools developed outside the project. Besides this, methodological principles will be derived and applied to transform further content.