Essayons RCP 23
Military
Ladies and Gents,
Long time reader, first time poster here. I recently transitioned out of the Army as a Combat Engineer Officer into an Operations Manager role for a mechanical contractor. We are scheduled to undertake a substantial project consisting of the demo of existing equipment and the installation of new food-processing equipment in our client's facility during an 8-day shutdown. Due to the impacts of COVID-19, a previously scheduled structural column replacement (to be performed by a third party) has been delayed several months and is now being thrown smack-dab into the middle of our shutdown. The client's project manager has stated there will be a "40' safe zone" established around each of the four structural columns to be replaced (which support the load of the roof), shoring will be erected, then all "work in the process area will be stopped for 30 minutes to ensure the shoring will hold." It may be my ignorance, but my project managers and I do not feel that these are sufficient risk mitigation measures, considering we will have 20+ personnel in the immediate area. I have pored through OSHA regulations and gone through countless threads on the forum, but haven't found any hard regulations on safety requirements when removing a structural member. Other than asking for stamped drawings for temporary building shoring, is there anything else we can do in order to ensure the safety of our team members and fellow contractors? Thank you for any and all assistance!
Cheers!
Essayons!
Long time reader, first time poster here. I recently transitioned out of the Army as a Combat Engineer Officer into an Operations Manager role for a mechanical contractor. We are scheduled to undertake a substantial project consisting of the demo of existing equipment and the installation of new food-processing equipment in our client's facility during an 8-day shutdown. Due to the impacts of COVID-19, a previously scheduled structural column replacement (to be performed by a third party) has been delayed several months and is now being thrown smack-dab into the middle of our shutdown. The client's project manager has stated there will be a "40' safe zone" established around each of the four structural columns to be replaced (which support the load of the roof), shoring will be erected, then all "work in the process area will be stopped for 30 minutes to ensure the shoring will hold." It may be my ignorance, but my project managers and I do not feel that these are sufficient risk mitigation measures, considering we will have 20+ personnel in the immediate area. I have pored through OSHA regulations and gone through countless threads on the forum, but haven't found any hard regulations on safety requirements when removing a structural member. Other than asking for stamped drawings for temporary building shoring, is there anything else we can do in order to ensure the safety of our team members and fellow contractors? Thank you for any and all assistance!
Cheers!
Essayons!