Safety in Design
DOOR
Design Out Our Risks
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DOOR — Design Out Our Risks
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Design Out Our Risks
The framework

Seven doors, one journey

DOOR walks a project from first brief to continuous improvement. Each phase is a door: open it to find what the phase is for, the outputs you need to leave with, and the how-to guides and templates that get you there. Walk them end to end, or step straight into the one you need.

What DOOR is

A mandatory process for the safe design of every Mirvac structure

As a developer, designer, project design manager, builder, asset manager and owner, Mirvac is in a unique position to influence the health and wellbeing of the places we create. Design Out Our Risks is how Mirvac entities discharge their duties under Work Health & Safety legislation for the safe design of structures.

It applies to every project — retail, office, industrial, residential apartments and houses, build-to-rent, masterplan communities and land subdivision. DOOR runs continuously through the design phase, because that is where the greatest impact can be made on eliminating or reducing risk across the whole asset lifecycle, and where the greatest value is created.

Read these guidelines in conjunction with Mirvac HSE Element 3, Safety in Design — Guidelines to undertake Design Out Our Risks (DOOR) Reviews.
Duty holders

Four parties carry duties for safe design under the WHS Act, through consultation, cooperation and coordination:

  • Client
  • Design-build entityPrincipal Contractor
  • Designer
  • Constructor

Designer obligations apply to any entity that designs — the responsibilities follow the activity performed, not the formal role.

Purpose

Key outputs

    How-to guides & templates

    Door 2 · Identify · How-to guide

    Major DOOR Workshops

    Bring designers, project teams and operational stakeholders together to identify Safety in Design risks early enough that they can be eliminated or minimised through design changes. The workshop shapes the design — it does not simply document risk.

    Identify · Risk assessment tool

    DOOR Risk Register

    Capture risks and opportunities, rate them against the Mirvac matrix, and export a formatted register to Excel. Ratings calculate automatically from consequence and likelihood.

    1. 1
      Set upName the project and region
    2. 2
      Add risksOne entry at a time, auto-rated
    3. 3
      ExportFormatted Excel register
    Add a risk or opportunity
    1

    What is it?

    Describe the risk or opportunity and where it sits.

    2

    How serious is it, before you do anything?

    Pick consequence and likelihood — the rating calculates itself.

    Select both to rate
    3

    How will you deal with it?

    Describe the mitigation and how the risk is treated.

    4

    What is left, and who owns it?

    Rate the residual risk after mitigation, then assign the action.

    Select both to rate
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