Management demolition

Process, hardware, and systems inspections and testing (pre-startup safety review) Maintenance procedures Alarm and instrument management Demolition procedures... 

Process and Equipment Integrity—Among the things to be considered here are reliability engineering, materials of construction, fabrication and inspection procedures, installation procedures, preventive main-tainence, process, hardware and systems inspections and testing (prestartup safety review), maintainence procedures, alarm and instrument management, and demolition procedures. 

IDEM. 2001a. Demolition and renovation Asbestos. Indiana Department of Environmental Management. Http //www.state.in.us/idem/ctap/asbestos.pdf. January 19,2001. 

A good guideline for what elements a safety management system should contain is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), ANSI/AIHA ZlO-2005 American National Standard Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems. A similar standard exists for the construction and demolition industry ANSI/ASSE AlO.38-2000 (R2007) Basic Elements of an Employer s Program to Provide a Safe and Healthful Work Environment. 

Building occupants or owners with vermieulite insulation need to follow current US EPA recommendations for managing vermieulite in place. In most cases it should be carefully removed prior to renovations or demolition. 

The risks associated with new projects may include use of hazardous substances insufficient product data faulty electrical equipment poor access/egress poor ergonomics noisy equipment poorly guarded machinery imported equipment/materials lack of risk assessment lack of training/awareness on behalf of management, supervision and employees poor environmental control inadequate emergency procedures inadequate maintenance considerations poor construction methods little or no consideration of waste disposal/demolition. 

Demolition is one of the most hazardous construction operations and is responsible for more deaths and major injuries than any other activity. The management of demolition work is controlled by the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994 and requires a planning supervisor and a health and safety plan (as covered in Chapter 3). A more detailed discussion of demolition is given in Chapter 10. 

All demolition work must be carried out so as to minimize, so far as is reasonably practicable, the risks to employees and others who may be affected by the work. The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations apply to all demolition work. The HSE must be notified before work begins if it is to last for 30 days or more than 500 person days are involved. 

The owner of a property which is to be demolished has a duty under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994 to provide the demolition contractor with a pre-demolition investigation and survey. He will appoint a planning supervisor to organize this survey. 

The site manager should arrange for suitable plant and equipment to be provided so that the work can be executed to the standards required by health and safety legislation, in particular the Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations 2002. It may be necessary for the local authority and the police to be consulted about the proposed demolition so that issues of public protection, local traffic management and possible road closures can be addressed. There should be liaison with the occupiers of adjacent properties because, in some cases, they may need to be evacuated. 

A very important requirement for demolition work is the provision of training for all construction workers involved in the work. Specialist training courses are available for those concerned with the management of the total process. The Construction Industry Training Board (CITE) offers a training course entitled A Scheme for the Certification of Competence of Demolition Operatives . 

Some people would like the HSC to make all demolition notifiable. But ownership of health and safety management rests with those commissioning and carrying out the work, not HSE. It might also lead to a false sense of security, since HSE would be unable to make use of the additional notifications without additional resources, or diverting them from other priorities. 

Finally, one of the objectives of the book is to provide a handbook for the use of any person who has health and safety as part of their responsibilities. We thought that it would be helpful, therefore, to add a few useful topics that are outside the syllabus. These include managing occupational road risks (Chapter 11), fast track settlement of compensation claims following the Woolfe reforms (Chapter 18) and demolition using explosives (Chapter 10). 

All demolition operations fall under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM) and therefore require a systematic approach to the operations. Specific details relating to demolition will appear in the construction phase health and safety plan, the fire plan, demolition risk assessments and method statements. 

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