Training helps to prevent accidents - FACT!

We are continually surprised at the office to receive calls from people asking why they need an NDTG CCDO demolition card when they are "only demolishing a garage".

Well, the release of a film taken by a householder of a builder "only demolishing a garage" that went horribly wrong leaving him with a serious leg injury when the garage collapsed, should answer that question. The builder was very lucky that he did not lose the leg or his life. The film in question can be viewed below:


When we deliver our NDTG Demolition Manager courses, one of the sessions on day 4 is structural awareness and we deal with the accident at Moor Park School, Ludlow where an inexperienced untrained team were demolishing a timber classrom which collapsed during the work and killed Mark Evans. Details of the accident are here.

Both of these events clearly show that what is seen by some to be "simple" demolition can go disasterously wrong. The Construction Design & Management Regulations 2007 state in Regulation 29 that "Demolition should be planned" and Appendix 4 of that document states that "competent persons should be employed".

As far as we are concerned the only people who should do demolition are those trained in accordance with the NDTG guidelines of CCDO.

Demolition training prevents accidents. A trained, competent workforce is a workforce that will work safely and go home at the end of the day in one piece.