Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L00409:body:0:p20
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L00409
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 50571–53255

4.6 Removal of debris
The person conducting a business or undertaking and/or the principal contractor in control of the workplace must manage the risks to health and safety arising from the storage, movement and disposal of construction materials and waste at the workplace.
Debris should be progressively removed to prevent any build up that could affect the integrity
of a suspended floor of the building or structure, affect workplace access and egress, become
a fire hazard, or cause a health and safety hazard.
Demolished materials should not be allowed to fall freely unless they are confined within a chute (or similar enclosure), shaft and/or exclusion zone.
A debris drop is a debris pile that is enclosed and where the risk of an object striking workers or the public has been eliminated. Debris drop zones should be clearly identified and any area where there is a risk that a worker or other persons at the workplace might be injured by falling or rebounding debris should be fenced or barricaded to prevent access.
If demolished materials are allowed to fall through internal floor openings in multi-storey buildings, such as lift shafts and/or debris drop zones, the following should apply:
    * at the working level, each opening should be protected by an adequate vehicle buffer during the removal of debris by mobile plant, and guarded by suitable barriers at all other times. Vehicle buffers should be high enough to prevent the mobile plant from riding over them and solid enough to stop the fully loaded mobile plant, and
    * at all levels below the working level, access to the area through or onto which material is falling should be prevented, either by sealing off the opening with guarding from floor to ceiling, or by erecting signs and barricades to prevent persons coming near the openings.
Debris chutes should be designed and constructed to prevent the spillage of material and dust
and to minimise noise while debris is passing through the chute. Vertical chutes should be fully enclosed with a cover or barrier at the top to prevent a person falling into the chute. Debris chutes should be adequately secured to the building or structure and to ensure that debris falls freely and does not become jammed in shafts or chutes. Securing of the chute should take into consideration the weight of the chute plus the accumulated load.
Overhead demolition should cease during removal of the debris bins. Signs which warn of the risk from falling or ejected material should be placed at the discharge end of every chute.

4.7 Falls
Regulation 78: A person conducting a business or undertaking must manage the risk of a fall from one level to another that is