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SHORING SYSTEM
- Technique of setting up or placing props against walls or structures as support to strengthen or prevent further collapse
- Purpose
- To make entry safe for rescuers to undertake rescue within damaged structures
- Prevent further collapse and injury
Signs of impending collapse
Cracked or dropping archways
Splitting or stonework, falling of cornices
Sagging floors or beam, or gaps between the edges of floors and walls
Displacement of columns, pillars, beams or walls
Types of shoring
1. Raking Shore – prevent a wall or vertical part of a building from bulging or falling away
2. Dead or Vertical Shore
3. Horizontal or Flying Shore
4. Cribbage Shore
CRIBBING Ranking shore Window/door shore