Ing. Zuzana Struková, PhD.

Although there is a clear improvement on the safety performance in construction sector, it is still a high risk occupational area and suffers from very high accident rates. One of the most effective ways to improve health and safety conditions in construction sites rests in sound education of people incorporated in construction planning, managing or executing. In our region, the creative approaches are essential to encourage new methods to teach health and safety in a stimulating way. The potential of digital technologies widely used in designing buildings for creation of design/construction visualization tools focused on design for construction safety implementation is discussed in the paper. There is also presented the educational program centred on development of construction safety awareness through unconventional teaching techniques. It is addressed particularly to designers or future designers and is focused on implementation of Prevention through Design concept and so is aimed at designers’ safety education especially through the supporting tool developed on building information modelling (BIM) platform.