Just over a week after the EDA launched its high reach guidance, the NDA follows suit.
The National Demolition Association, in collaboration with the National Federation of Demolition Contractors in the United Kingdom, has produced a guide entitled “High Reach Demolition Machine Guidance Document” to outline recommended safe work practices for such machines designed to safely dismantle structures greater than three stories high.
The full-color, 14-page booklet was written to promote important discourse regarding the specification of work practices, the manufacture, supply, and use of the machines, and their transportation, loading, and unloading. The document was designed to be used as an aid in developing a work plan and engineering survey. (More details here).
The launch of the new publication comes as no surprise: the NDA and NFDC have been discussing this collaborative project for some time. There is, however, a certain irony to the timing of the launch, following just a week after the European Demolition Association unveiled its own guidance.
Even more interestingly, both the US and European guidance documents use as their starting point the UK guidance produced by the National Federation of Demolition Contractors, a document that is itself currently being revised.
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