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Let’s all
FLOOR BY FLOOR WORKS AND DEMOLITION get home safely,
EDGE PROTECTION. every day

1 2 Demolition area to be excluded at Types of edge protection to be
all times. used for demolition works.

SG4a edge
protection system.

Scaffold to be sequentially struck as
works progress with 2m above area
remaining.
Best practice is to carry out demolition from the floor below, working on
a floor by floor sequence. This allows for the level works are being
carried out on to be excluded and removes the need for operatives to
access the slab under demolition reducing the risk of works at height
and the risk of falling materials and debris.
3 4
No requirement to access level
with live edge.

Pedestrian
barriers are not
to be used as
edge
protection, only
for demarking
access routes
and areas.
Props recycled to lower levels as Access to all areas of risk are to be
per TW design as works excluded via physical barriers
proceeded
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