You can use this code as a practical guide for how to meet your occupational health and safety duties or obligations in relation to undertaking demolition work. This code provides a guide to prevent injury and disease to people engaged in work at a demolition site.
This information is particularly relevant for you if you're an employer, self-employed person, principal contractor or someone who has management or control of a workplace that involves demolition work. It is also relevant for employees, people who install, erect or commission plant, and people who design buildings and structures. It uses examples and tools you can apply to your own situation.
It includes information on:
- what demolition work is
- who has duties associated with demolition work and what those duties are
- how to plan work involving demolition
- practical measures to control risks
- a range of demolition methods
- the demolition of special structures.
Compliance with this code is not mandatory. If you have not complied with the code, it will be up to you to show that you have met the relevant legal requirements by an alternative method.
