Managing Health & Safety Risks: No. 58): Reinforcement cage collapses

• Autores: The Institution of Structural Engineers' Health and Safety Panel
• Localización: The Structural Engineer: journal of the Institution of Structural Engineer, ISSN 1466-5123, Vol. 95, Nº. 1, 2017, págs. 27-27
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Fixing reinforcement is one of the most basic tasks in construction. There are a number of hazards linked to this work phase and, perhaps surprisingly, they do not appear to be well appreciated among the design/construction community. Collapses of rebar arrangements prior to concreting have occurred and, in the worst cases, workers have been killed. Other incidents have been ‘near misses’.