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Note for Phase 1s
As you’ll know from visiting my site yesterday I have just one week left on site. Damo and Olly a little more, Dan and Daz a little more again. So if you want examples of things we’ve seen to put what you’re learning into real life context, photos of stuff we’re doing, or even just to ask about how we find our attachment locations, now is the time to ask. I am very happy to provide photos and answers and I’m sure the other lads are too. But get in fast as time is short!
Here is a picture of the steel as it gets delivered as a starter (requested by Richard):
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Ph1- lifting equipment is controlled really tightly to ensure it is compliant and safe. Rebar is delivered pre bundled on the green stropes you can see in the photo. One problem we experience on site is tracking all the slings that come on site and ensure we have the supporting certificates to reuse them. Often they get cut up and wasted.
Guz – I’m guessing the amount of steel you have on site is a hundred fold what we have. Does your site reuse strops or just cut them up to remove the risk and burden?
Not sure how this compares but we tend to get about 80t of reinforcement delivered per week at the moment while constructing the in situ basement. We have opted for double wrapped collar chains rather than pre-slinging. This avoids the problems olly highlights but takes an ages to offload steel lorries (about 2hrs per load). Lifting is a massive issue on sites. Laing O’Rourke had an accident with “one use only” white slings last year lifting a reinforcement cage so the knee jerk response was to bang their use in all sites. Green slings seem to be the most common but keeping on top of lifting inspections is difficult.
However, all of this is probably not new for those who had to deal with lifting tackle registers as a tp comd. It is no different here except perhaps the lifting tackle is used all the time which was not my experience as a tp comd.
Another point to consider is pre-slinging. In theory it avoids having to put an operative on the back of a wagon to attach chains, especially if the wagon does not have edge protection. But if you do that, how do you check the condition of the slings before lifting.
When you have no space, sometimes leaving items on top of things (such as cabins) can be useful for a short period. Therefore pre-slinging can help because it avoids a person working at height. But then how to do you know the sling is still fine when you come back to it.
We always have a bloke on the back of the trailer to inspect it. He wears a harness when required.
I don’t think we’d ever allow steel to be stored on top of the cabins, but then we have the space so wouldn’t need to. Needs must and all that!
We reuse them mate. They get returned to the delivery company and then exchanged every month for new ones,
Are you cutting yours up after every use?
Control in the early stages of Ph2 was loose…as a result piles and piles of them were cut up and scrapped as no records were kept.
Now we reuse most of them as long as the lift certs get sent through form Express Steel with the deliveries but every now and then some do get scrapped.
Guys, I have just noticed this comment. Both courses have been either on exercise (Waterloo) or getting ready for an exam, hence the lack of comments. I and they are on leave this week, but I will give them a dig when I get back.