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Document ID (ISN)24731
CIS number 76-527
Year 1975
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Hofmann R., Hülsse H., Schramm W.
Title Earth moving and excavations
Original title Erd- und Tiefbauarbeiten [in German]
Bibliographic information Verlag Tribüne, Am Treptower Park 28-30, x 1139 , 1975. 70p. Illus. 6 ref. Price: M.2.70.
Abstract The contents of this booklet, which takes full account of the replacement of physically heavy work by complex machinery, include: preparation of construction project, preliminary work on the site (demolition, pile and sheet driving, water drainage), the earthmoving and excavation work itself (manual and mechanised, shoring of trenches and excavations, prevention of hazards due to buried electrical cables), transport (signalling and work on dumps), site workshops, transportable diesel oil reservoirs. List of relevant legislation (Germany, Fed.Rep.) and text of the directive of 9 May 1962 on prevention of accidents on construction sites due to explosive devices on the site.
Descriptors (primary) occupational safety; construction industry; earthmoving; trenching and excavating
Descriptors (secondary) work near electric lines; German Democratic Republic; pile driving; fuel tanks; legislation; trench shoring; demolition; manuals; warning notices; drainage
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Subject(s) Construction industry
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Trenching and excavating
Construction industry and civil engineering