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Construction

Management) Re

• Regulation 31

• (1) All practicable steps sh
necessary to prevent dang
where necessary, the provis
to ensure that—

• (a) any excavation or part
collapse;

• (b) no material from a side o
excavation is dislodged or fa

• (c) no person is buried or
by material which is dislo

(Design and
egulations, 2007

hall be taken, where
ger to any person, including,
sion of supports or battering,

of an excavation does not

or roof of, or adjacent to, any
alls; and
trapped in an excavation
odged or falls.

Construction
Management) Re

• 31 (2) Suitable and suff
taken to prevent any pe
or any accumulation o
into any excavation

• 31 (3) Without prejudice
(2), suitable and sufficie
where necessary, to pre
excavation or ground
being overloaded by w
material;

(Design and
egulations, 2007

ficient steps shall be
erson, work equipment,
of material from falling

e to paragraphs (1) and
ent steps shall be taken,
event any part of an
adjacent to it from
work equipment or

(source E

E Little – The building of the Barton High Level Bridge)

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Barton Bridge disaster 195

Whilst erecting 4No, 20
above the ground, the s
collapsed bringing down
men.

60 men, that would norm
girders, were lining up f

21 children were left fat

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• SIM 02/2010/04 The m
temporary works in the

• BS 5975:2008 Code of
works procedures and t
design of falsework

• BS 5531:1988 Code
erecting structural fram
useful advice)

orks guidance

management of
construction industry
f practice for temporary
the permissible stress

e of practice for safety in
mes (Withdrawn but gives

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ary Works

require?