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EDGE AND VOID PROTECTION get home safely,
every day

Materials should be restrained so that
they cannot be displaced and never
stored within 1m of a live edge.
Edge protection must be a minimum of
950mm high and have an intermediate
handrail and toe board. Mesh panels or
brick guard should be used to provide a
more robust system.
1m

All voids in slabs must be protected with a
designed solution agreed prior to the
works commencing. This may be a mesh
or GRP solution. The method of void
protection will be stipulated within the
task specific RAMS. Small penetrations in
the slab will be
protected with an
18mm ply cover
(below 450mm). The A void register is to be developed clearly
lid will be recessed giving the location of each protected
into the concrete or void on the project. Voids are subject to
chamfered if above a daily inspection.
the level of the slab.

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