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Concrete pumping plays an important role in the concrete delivery service. While pumping is a highly efficient way of placing concrete, it is not without inherent risks. There are several business Eamonn Ryan models for concrete pumping such as pumping that is: • left entirely for the customer to arrange • out-sourced to a third party contractor, managed indirectly by a cement manufacturer • in-house and managed directly by a cement manufacturer
When it comes to construction projects, being efficient ensures one stays within the boundaries of budget and timeline. Specialised machines such as the concrete pump work to help maximise construction time. versatile concrete pumping services save valuable time and effort, allowing contractors to pour concrete in even the hardest-to-reach locations, such as up the side of a 200m high-rise building. The primary purpose of pumping concrete is to save time, money, and effort during a building project, whether small or large. Instead of hauling concrete to the required location, a pump and boom allow one to place concrete precisely where it’s needed, no matter the terrain or obstacles along the way that would make reaching it by truck impossible.
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They also cater for volume – pumping concrete with boom pumps is ideally suited to large construction projects, such as large industrial projects, tunnelling work or high-rise buildings, as well as inaccessible locations hundreds of metres or even kilometres away from the truck. They can also be used for grout, mortar, wet screeds, shotcrete, sludge, and foamed concrete. line pumps are ideal for repairing underwater concrete, placing concrete in heavily reinforced sections, filling fabric forms, and building bond beams. but there are also small line pumps for transporting smaller volumes of concrete, and which are ideal for smaller concrete construction projects like pools, sidewalks, ground slabs, low-rise construction, and slabs for single-family homes.
This handbook explores concrete pumping minimum standards and best practice for the safe management of concrete pumping services. These minimum standards provide a reference point that can be integrated into third party companies’ oH&S management and training systems where such contractors are carrying out pumping services either on their own or a third party’s behalf. This handbook also aims to communicate identified best practices which when implemented, will deliver high levels of operational safety in concrete pumping.
Such minimum standards and best practices must by default be compliant with applicable country legislation, manufacturer operator manuals and pump specifications supplied by the pump and vehicle manufacturers. This handbook is primarily designed to inform the managers and supervisors of contractors tasked with the safe operational management of concrete pumping services. organisational safety performance typically covers the following broad categories, each representing challenging levels of maturity with time: • Systems and processes • Equipment and facilities • Organisation and culture
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