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To the Right Honourable Michael Foot, MP, Secretary of State for Employment
and the Right Honourable Anthony Crosland, MP, Secretary of State for
the Environment
Sirs,
We were appointed on 13 March 1973 by the Right Honourable Maurice
MacMillan, MP, then Secretary of State for Employment and the Right Honourable Geoffrey Rippon, MP, then Secretary of State for the Environment to be
a Committee with the following terms of reference:
"To consider and advise on the technical, safety and other aspects of the
design, manufacture, erection and maintenance of temporary load bearing
falsework used to support formwork or permanent structures, particularly
bridges, during construction, and, in particular, to:
(a) identify any inadequacies in present knowledge, standards and practices, recommend such steps as may be needed, and indicate an order of
· priority;
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(b) draw up interim technical criteria, for use in advance of the publication
of a British Standard Code of Practice, together with such procedural
guidance as the Committee may consider appropriate;
(c) recommend what research and development should be carried out in
the short and long term; and . ·
( d) advise as to the training, organisational and manpower implications of
the Committee's recommendations."
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Our Interim Report was published in April 1974. We now have the honour to
submit our Final Report.
This report has taken a considerable time to prepare because we have not
allowed ourselves to be deterred from discharging our task in as thorough a
manner as the nature of the enquiry demanded. The volume of information
considered, the numbers who have given evidence and the difficulty of the
problems involved have required a sustained effort over the whole period since
the Committee began its enquiries. We sincerely hope that our work will result
in an improvement in the standards of falsework in this country and also that
some of our recommendations may benefit those who work in the construction
industry in activities outside the scope of our immediate enquiry.
SL Bragg
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Chairman
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