What is BS EN ISO 19650-6:2025 - Information management using BIM Part 6: Health and safety information about?
The sixth standard in the BS EN ISO 19650 series on information management using building information modelling (BIM), BS EN ISO 19650-6:2025 is about how to share health and safety information to achieve maximum benefit.
Who is BS EN ISO 19650-6:2025 - Information management using BIM Part 6: Health and safety information for?
BS EN ISO 19650-6:2025 is for individuals and organizations that contribute to and influence the procurement, design, construction, use (including maintenance) and end-of-life of building and infrastructure assets. Users will include:
- large industry;
- SMEs; and
- government.
What does BS EN ISO 19650-6:2025 - Information management using building information modelling (BIM) Part 6: Health and safety information cover?
This standard specifies concepts and principles for classifying, sharing and delivering health and safety information collaboratively, to secure economic, environmental and social benefits.
BS EN ISO 19650-6:2025:
- specifies requirements for the collaborative sharing of structured health and safety information throughout project and asset life cycles;
- supports the digitization of structured health and safety information in project and asset life cycles progressively from the outset;
- specifies how health and safety information is shared for use throughout project and asset life cycles; and
- sets out a health and safety information cycle framework for the identification, use, sharing and generalization of health and safety information through information management processes.
The principles and requirements of BS EN ISO 19650-6:2025 can be applied equally to delivery or in-use phases not using BIM.
Why should you use BS EN ISO 19650-6:2025 - Information management using BIM Part 6: Health and safety information?
- Increased safety: BS EN ISO 19650-6:2025 supports the use of health and safety and related information to provide a safer and healthier environment for end users as well as for design, construction, operation and maintenance personnel.
- Strengthened risk mitigation: It can help mitigate the inherent health and safety risks and hazards across the asset life cycle.
- Improved performance: It can result in improved health and safety performance, and fewer incidents and associated impacts.
- Better communication: It provides for clearer, more assured and relevant health and safety information to the ‘right people’ at the ‘right time’, and enables designers and contractors working on all kinds of building works to have clearer and more efficient information management.
- Cost effectiveness: It can reduce construction and operational costs by treating risk and thereby reducing losses, waste, stand down time and the need for rework.
- International application: As an international document, it can encourage more effective collaboration on global projects.
