CAD Standards relating to Health, Safety & Environment risks

[cad1202]

I'm always looking for ways to encourage CAD standards in organizations...

With that said, does anyone out there ever see links between following CAD standards and Health, Safety, & Environment risks?

I am thinking along the lines that if a drawing does not follow the standards that the true intention of the information the CAD drawing is suppose to convey could be mistaken and it could result in something being built wrong and causing an accident.

Is that really a viable argument?

I did have a brief conversation with a power company once that claimed CAD drafting mistakes can easily result in an injury to one of their workers. Any other examples like that?

[jaberwok]

I'm always looking for ways to encourage CAD standards in organizations...

With that said, does anyone out there ever see links between following CAD standards and Health, Safety, & Environment risks?

I am thinking along the lines that if a drawing does not follow the standards that the true intention of the information the CAD drawing is suppose to convey could be mistaken and it could result in something being built wrong and causing an accident.

Is that really a viable argument?

I did have a brief conversation with a power company once that claimed CAD drafting mistakes can easily result in an injury to one of their workers. Any other examples like that?

Wrong dimensions, wrongly specified materials, parts missing from BOMs or schedules; I can see them causing that sort of problem but, quite honestly, I don't believe that placing some text on the "wrong" layer is going to have that effect.
Not that I'm against standards, I just don't think that that is the reason we need them.


£0.02

[Comach]

This is an interesting issue and one that has surfaced in my experience. The last company I worked for had an inclusion space in their drawings for Risk Assessment. If I recall correctly this was primarily related to the engineering design of a building and the installation/construction of same. It also applied to the installation by third parties for equipment and sub-contracted fabrications.

It provided a get out clause if the design obstructed or made difficult the erection or installation of items supplied by other parties and by definition was considered a risk.

So in some cases we had to provide information on the drawing to facilitate external contractors to carry out their work safely. Part of the company's quality and safety control initiative.

Otherwise I would agree with John.