UK construction-safety guidance by the Riskora Editorial Team
Most of the work involved in emergency structural demolition is straightforward — it is the documentation that delays the start date for small contractors. BS 6187 is the British Standard governing demolition work, and its central principle is that no building should be demolished without a written, sequenced plan agreed by a competent demolition engineer. The legal position for emergency structural demolition is well established. Even emergency demolition requires a RAMS — proportionate to the urgency but covering critical safety elements. A RAMS written specifically for this activity is the only practical way to evidence that the risks have been thought through before work starts.
Example RAMS
RAMS for Emergency Structural Demolition — UK
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Even emergency demolition requires a RAMS — proportionate to the urgency but covering critical safety elements. Local authority dangerous structures officers may issue enforcement notices requiring immediate action.
Based in the South West, a small building firm has a Friday deadline for a RAMS and is working evenings to get it through review — the kind of pressure most small contractors will recognise. In the Riskora builder they choose the right trade preset, remove the hazards that do not apply, add a couple of site-specific entries from the custom hazard library, and save the finished document for distribution to the team. The finished document explicitly addresses unpredictable structural collapse during emergency works, which the principal contractor would otherwise expect to see written into the pack.
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