Taking Up Modules, Concrete & Safe Working

Free O8 questions: Taking Up Modules, Concrete & Safe Working

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• Under SROH, once the modules of a modular surface have been taken up under the Code's excavation section, which part of the Code governs how they are put back?
• Scenario: a gang needs three test holes in a block-paved footway to confirm the position of a service before it opens the ground, and there is nothing on site making it difficult to take the blocks up. The foreman proposes to drill straight through the blocks instead. Under SROH, what does the Code prefer here, and how firmly does it put that?
• Scenario: a footway of concrete flags is being permanently reinstated. The flags that came out are sound and undamaged and have been cleaned off, but the gang would rather lay new flags because they will look neater. Under SROH, may it?
• Scenario: a block-paved footway has to be opened and left safe overnight, and an interim reinstatement is required. Some of the blocks that came out are broken. The gang proposes to lay a bituminous patch across the whole opening instead. Under SROH, what should go back for the interim?
• Scenario: a small opening in a natural stone flagged footway is to be given an interim reinstatement. Two of the six flags lifted are chipped at a corner and the other four are sound. The gang proposes to lay bituminous material over the opening rather than put the flags back. Under SROH, does the damage to those two flags open that route, and for what reason?
• Scenario: a modular footway has suffered widespread breakage of its blocks and an interim reinstatement in a bituminous mixture is accepted as available. The mixture chosen meets the Code's performance requirements, and the gang has been compacting it with a vibrating plate worked hard up against the blocks left standing at the edge of the opening, two of which have cracked under the plate. Under SROH, is the bituminous route still being properly relied on?
• Scenario: a York stone footway is to be opened. Several of the flags are already cracked, and the undertaker wants to put them back rather than buy replacements. The gang means to start breaking out in the morning and to decide flag by flag, as each one comes up, whether it is good enough to go back. Under SROH, what has to happen first?
• Scenario: a standard works job is about to start in a flagged footway. Several flags inside the working area are already cracked and others have settled. The undertaker has given the authority notice of the works. Under SROH, what does the Code provide for that pre-existing condition?
• Scenario: before a gang breaks ground in a modular footway, the inspection held beforehand finds a number of the modules already damaged. The undertaker asks the authority to supply replacements for them. Under SROH, where does the undertaker stand?
• Scenario: an undertaker carries out about forty minor openings a month in modular footways across a district, each one a single small opening. Its supervisor asks why no joint inspection is arranged before any of them, as one is before a standard works job. Under SROH, what is the answer?

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