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in the work including the principal contractor, demolition contractor, structural engineers and mobile plant operators.
A demolition plan should be prepared for all demolitions where there are a number of other persons conducting a business or undertaking (for example subcontractors) involved. If the demolition contractor is also the principal contactor, the demolition plan should be incorporated as part of the WHS management plan.
Appendix B provides further information on what a demolition plan may include.

3.1 Notifiable demolition work

Regulation 142:  A person conducting a business or undertaking who proposes to carry out the following demolition work must give written notice to the regulator at least 5 days before any of the following work commences:

    * demolition of a structure, or a part of a structure that is load bearing or otherwise related to the physical integrity of the structure, that is at least 6 metres in height
    * demolition work involving load shifting machinery on a suspended floor, or
    * demolition work involving explosives.

The height of a structure is measured from the lowest level of the ground immediately adjacent to the base of the structure at the point at which the height is to be measured to its highest point.

The type of information which would normally be included in the notification would be:
    * the name and contact details of the person conducting the business or undertaking
    * if the high risk construction work is in connection with a construction project, the name
      and contact details of the principal contractor for the project or the principal contractor's representative
    * the name and contact details of the person directly supervising the work
    * the date of the notice
    * the nature of the demolition
    * whether explosives will be used in carrying out the work and, if so, the licence details of the person who is to use the explosives
    * when the person conducting the business or undertaking reasonably believes the work is
      to commence and to be completed, and
    * where the work is to be carried out.
In the circumstances where an emergency services organisation directs one or more of its workers to carry out notifiable demolition work for the purposes of rescuing and/or providing first aid to a person, the organisation must provide a written notice to the relevant regulator as soon as reasonably practicable before or during the demolition work, or if this is not reasonably practicable after the demolition work is carried out.

3.2 Principal contractor
Where the value of construction work is $250 000 or more, the construction work is considered a 'construction project' for which additional duties apply to the principal contractor. There can only be one principal contractor for