Construction (Design
and Management) Regulations 1994
What
is Construction?
'Construction
work' is defined in the regulations as the carrying out of any building,
civil engineering or engineering construction work, and includes any of
the following:
- The construction,
alteration, conversion, fitting out, commissioning, renovation, repair,
upkeep, redecoration or other maintenance (including cleaning which
involves the use of water or an abrasive at high pressure or the use
of substances classified as corrosive or toxic for the purpose of regulation
7 of the Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging) Regulations 1993,
de-commissioning, demolition or dismantling of a structure,
- the preparation
for an intended structure, including site clearance, exploration, investigation
(but not site survey) and excavation, and laying or installing the foundations
of the structure,
- the assembly of
prefabricated elements to form a structure or the disassembly of prefabricated
elements which, immediately before such disassembly, formed a structure,
- the removal of
a structure or part of a structure or of any product or waste resulting
from demolition or dismantling of a structure or from disassembly of
prefabricated elements which, immediately before such disassembly, formed
a structure, and
- the installation,
commissioning, maintenance repair or removal of mechanical, electrical,
gas, compressed air, hydraulic, telecommunications, computer or similar
services which are normally fixed within or to a structure,
but does
not include the exploration for or extraction of mineral resources or activities
preparatory thereto carried out at a place where such exploration is carried
out.
A 'structure'
is defined in the regulations as :
- any building, steel
or reinforced concrete structure (not being a building), railway line
or siding, tramway line, dock, harbour, inland navigation, tunnel, shaft,
bridge, viaduct, waterworks, reservoir, pipe or pipe-line (whatever,
in either case, it contains or is intended to contain), cable, aqueduct,
sewer, sewage works, gasholder, road, airfield, sea defence works, river
works, drainage works, earthworks, lagoon, dam, wall, caisson, mast,
tower, pylon, underground tank, earth retaining structure, or structure
designed to preserve or alter any natural feature, and any other structure
similar to the foregoing, or
- any formwork, falsework,
scaffold or other structure designed or used to provide support or means
of access during construction work, or
- any fixed plant
in respect of work which is installation, commissioning, de-commissioning
or dismantling and where any such work involves a risk of a person falling
more than 2 metres.
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